Bikes are dangerous and injure you

A clumsy **** post.

I took my K1100 for an MOT yesterday and the tester asked if I could
give a hand with the brake test and the headlight test.

The MOT bay was a bit restricted and the tester was holding the bike up
by the left hand bar, normally I'd get on the bike when it was on its
centre stand. I put my right hand on the tank and swung a leg over...

Sudden, blinding, pain followed. Not sure what I did but I think I put
a lot of weight through my right hand and bent my index finger back
further than it likes to go. It hurt all day (mildly after the initial
shock subsided). This morning the bottom joint and much of my palm
between the thumb and the index finger is greatly swollen. Movement is
realy very restricted in the bottom joint.

Arse.

 

Ouch. I'll see your hurty finger & raise you a hurty knee. Did
something to it yesterday when windsurfing, but I've no idea what. It
started to hurt a tiny bit when lugging my kit back up the beach, then
when I tried to get out the car after the 2.5 hour drive home, I nearly
passed out.

It's ok when dead straight, but trying to bend it either way is
absolute fucking agony. A night's resting it hasn't helped, so I think
I'll be dragging myself up to casualty in a bit.

 

Sounds like a subluxation, a sort of dislocation that puts itself back in
place.
However, the ligaments will be stretched and painful for quite a while and
you need an x-ray to rule out a fracture. Get yerself off to A&E this
morning as early as poss - it'll be quiet and you'll go through quickly.

TonyB

 

Yep , even worse when you been riding all day , your busting for a
piss and you cant get off the bike because your hips have locked up

 

There is a very distinct painful bit. If you sit with yer legs straight
out, there's a sort of big dimple just below the kneecap on the inside
of your leg. The bit that hurts when I poke it is the hard lump at the
bottom of that dimple, so about halfway between kneecap & back of knee.

Which sounds to me like the result of it getting a good whack, but I
didn't notice it at the time. The water was pretty cold though so maybe
it was just a bit numb.

I fear it's a bit late for that now after faffing around trying to get
upstairs & figuring out how to get in the shower. A&E's probably full
of Sunday morning football injuries by now, so I'll leave it 'til this
evening.

 

it's 'cos you're old, I'm afraid. And being old, the recovery time
will be so much longer than when you weren't old.

When I was helping Nige get the 12R into the back of the van a month
or so, I dinged my knee on the van's bumper. It hurt like ****, and
the bruise took about 3 weeks to fade.

Arse, as you say.

 

I thought we were going to get another post describing an off road
accident, not a whinge because you've bent your finger enough to make it
swell up a bit.

What you need to remember is that I bent my finger a bit more than I'd
have liked to and ended up having it pinned until the bone had fused.

 

That sounds just like tendonitis.

I found myself in A&E (1) in Tuscany a few years ago after a day on
one of those tree top adventure park places. It was, without doubt,
the most painful thing I have ever experienced. (2)

(1) or whatever it is in Italian
(2) I've never done anything really bad to myself.

 

It has its compensations. But, in this case I think it would have hurt
even in my 20s.

Being stupid and clumsy is what really sucks.

 

Not likely 'cos I've decided to replace the piston in the KTM (done).
It comes apart really nicely for a ten year old bike. Absolutely no
fucked fastners... is this a first?

Old piston wasn't so bad, ring gap beyond spec so it needed doing. The
replacement piston (vertex) is rated for 20 hours use...

Next to get on the bench is the WR to have a new barrel and piston
fitted. I might have ordered the wrong one because it is 290cc.

Thanks for that. Swelling gone down a bit mainly 'cos I've been using
it to pull the engine apart.

 

Welll, you may be right. Still it's got 36 hours or so until I need to
ride a bike next.

My legs are covered in fucking bruises. I fell into a ladder. Another
boring story which I won't waste people's time with. Oddly the people
who saw it found it funny. Three weeks on and the bruise is still
there.

Oh well, being old is better than the alternative.

 

Fragility seems to be an unavoidable part of getting old.

 

How many hours before a refresh on a race engine for a road bike?

 

Ah - I can provide one of those. I went for an "off road adventure" day
yesterday and managed to fall of twice, courtesy of excess enthusiasm on
my part, some huge ruts on a couple of the trails and a rain shower that
made it a bit slippery in places. It didn't spoil my day and I just
carried on without any real discomfort at the time . Today the swelling
and bruising to the left leg is impressive-looking but not too serious.
However, I think I have pulled an intercostal muscle which is rather
painful - and I know from experience that those fuckers can take a long
time to heal.

I went with this lot http://www.trailworld.co.uk/ (voucher as birthday
prezzie). It was a good introduction to off-roading for a complete novice
like me and a bit more demanding than I had expected. Although it was
mainly riding woodland tracks there was a fair range of surfaces - forest
trials, mud, rubble, water crossings etc. and some slopes steep enough
to be interesting. Overall a really good day out

 

It took almost two weeks for the bruise to go after I had the brute of a
Tenere try to crush me when I made the mistake of thinking it'd be ok
for green laning. That was a lesson that I didn't want to repeat too
often then the very next time I took it off road I lobbed it again but
managed to avoid giving it a soft landing.

Are you going again?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

Funny? Are you fucking joking? Packer would have been clearing space in
his freezer.

 

Lots more than 20 hours. Danny's old ZX10R was still winning races
after three years and no refreshes. The Daytona 675 had one refresh in
4 years, and that included Olie Linsdell leading the Triumph Triple
Challenge for half a season and winning on it at the Manx. It also won
a club championship in Danny's hands before it got a refresh.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike
in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

In Champ's hands? About a fortnight.

 

Clearing space? You mean sliding the hooks along the rails in the cold
store, right?

 

That's a tad optimistic, that is.