Re: What did you do to or for or with your Laverda today?

Errr, GSXR1100H?  4 1/2 inch IIRC.  Red wiill know.  The standard tyre for that bike is a 160- too wide for the chain run on the Lav, but the profile is good.
 
Actually what did my Laverda do to me today...



Nail is broken but not detached. Did it in the first few minutes in the cave this morning about half an hour ago. Starting to throb now.
 
If the nail gets black or at least darker and the pain doesn't go away, you're going to have to drill the nail. Don't do what the stupid female GP did to mine the first time this happened. Paper clip in a bunsen burner till its red hot and hold it against the nail till it burned through. She was surprised when It hurt me one whole shit load. The next time I got a 1/16 drill bit and slowly wound it through the bottom of the nail stopping before the pain and squeezed out the blood that builds up under the nail.At least you know when to stop before it hurts to much.Doest sound like fun but better that the throbbing from the blood build up under the nail.
 
Trying to pre-empt the inevitable swelling I let it bleed as much as I could.
The nail is detached apart from a few mm at the front so once it calms down a bit I think I can snip it off. Just didn't feel  that was a good idea straight away. I know I should have just done it but I wanted to clean and inspect before hacking into it.
I've had worse. Got a band-aid on it now holding it all together. After lunch I'll finish off the task that bit me.

A colleague at work split his thumb with a paper guillotine and the hospital drilled 6 holes in the nail and stitched it all up through the nail.  :o
 
Vince said:
If the nail gets black or at least darker and the pain doesn't go away, you're going to have to drill the nail. Don't do what the stupid female GP did to mine the first time this happened. Paper clip in a bunsen burner till its red hot and hold it against the nail till it burned through. She was surprised when It hurt me one whole shit load. The next time I got a 1/16 drill bit and slowly wound it through the bottom of the nail stopping before the pain and squeezed out the blood that builds up under the nail.At least you know when to stop before it hurts to much.Doest sound like fun but better that the throbbing from the blood build up under the nail.
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Bloody girlyman. I use heated paperclips all the time. Quick and painless if done properly. Unwind the clip so that you have a long spring arm with a section at the end at 90deg to the long arm. Heat the tip and let the springiness of the long arm apply the pressure. Easy peasy. Even done my own nails when required the same way.
 
My GP at the time only knew half the paperclip story,she missed the spring bit. Her technique was after getting it red hot she just held it on the nail,after it burned through she kept it there going into the meat under the nail. She said it would NOT hurt, and it didn't till it hit the meaty bit under the nail. They it really did hurt,quite a bit more that the when the hammer first did the damage.
 
Yuk.

Quick road test on the new Bridgestone BT-016 Pros just now.  Agree with Grant, they make the bike turn better than the Avons- feels a deal lighter.  New boots mean the shimmy's gone too.  (clap) Like 'em so far.
 
Grant said:
A colleague at work split his thumb with a paper guillotine and the hospital drilled 6 holes in the nail and stitched it all up through the nail.  :o
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I smashed my thumb and with a high lift jack, (lifting 2.5 tonne was fine, but as soon as I flicked the down lever, the handle flew forward, smashing into my thumb that was against the post) the force of the handle hitting my thumb against the upright post of the jack exploded the top of my thumb. The nail was still attached to the flesh, but the flesh and nail was hanging of the end of the bone, 90 degress to where it should have been. 

I was home alone, and was feeling a tad woosy, so rang a mate, to drive me to the hospital. He came around and wanted a look. I took of the towel and he fainted, and fell down a flight of steps and split his head open  ::) he got 4 stitches in the emergency dept.  :LOL:

Meanwhile, the lady Dr came to have a look, took off the tea towel, and said ....... "oh shit". I figured that meant it was pretty bad.
She ended up having to ring another hospital to find out what to do. Same as Grants mate, they stitched straight through the nail and it held together.

Ten years later and the nail has a continual split in it and the flesh on the pad of my thumb is wafer thin.
Black line shows where it broke away.

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Fucking hurt, and was the first injury where they sent me home with a script for Morphene.
 
Grant said:
Actually what did my Laverda do to me today...



Nail is broken but not detached. Did it in the first few minutes in the cave this morning about half an hour ago. Starting to throb now.
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Ouch don't you just hate that.
 
Speaking of sore fingers, this is my recent effort. Angle grinder with a cutting disc. 53 hours waiting in Royal Melbourne for 1 hr of surgery (while fasting - nearly died of hunger).
 

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Well done Pat. You're now a member of the angle grinder's dickhead club, as am I. We're in good company because Keith Nairn is a member too. My own attempt at amputating a finger with a cutting disk was a few years ago. It's well and truly healed now but there's still a permanent dark-coloured mark from the black stuff the cutting disk was made of. It has stayed in my skin like a tattoo.
 
Let me guess,you both took the guard off. Did that a couple of times to get  into an odd spot, made me feel very very uncomfortable.Its hard to even put them down like that.
 
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