2010-04-30 - Second Guinness Ride

Just cleaned the lines and doing a little quality control.
Guinness.. Breakfast of champions.

quality control at 9am

• tuts *
  

says the man who was drinking cans of redstripe at 06:30 on sunday morn pre-marathon ride.

touché!

BB and cranks arrived. All going well until I was removing the chainring from my old cranks. Instead of doing it on the bike, I decided to hold the crankarm. Cue a bit of slippage and I now have 3 deep grooves between my left thumb and fore-finger where the tendons are visible. Currently sat in North Middlesex hospital waiting. WAC!!!!!!

Looks like I'll be on the bus to the toucan cos I could murder a Guinness! Thank fuck I'm right handed for drinking!

When will you learn? You can't be trusted with sharp objects - think of the gardening accident you had last week!

BB and cranks arrived. All going well until I was removing the chainring from my old cranks. Instead of doing it on the bike, I decided to hold the crankarm. Cue a bit of slippage and I now have 3 deep grooves between my left thumb and fore-finger where the tendons are visible. Currently sat in North Middlesex hospital waiting. WAC!!!!!!

Looks like I'll be on the bus to the toucan cos I could murder a Guinness! Thank fuck I'm right handed for drinking!

jesus jeff (or are you a geoff?)! i thought my thumb was as bad as it could get (when unscrewing a pedal, cue two tasty flaps of skin). show us later!

BB and cranks arrived. All going well until I was removing the chainring from my old cranks. Instead of doing it on the bike, I decided to hold the crankarm. Cue a bit of slippage and I now have 3 deep grooves between my left thumb and fore-finger where the tendons are visible. Currently sat in North Middlesex hospital waiting. WAC!!!!!!

Looks like I'll be on the bus to the toucan cos I could murder a Guinness! Thank fuck I'm right handed for drinking!

Shit one dude!!! Damn bad luck there! You better be coming anyway :-)

jesus jeff (or are you a geoff?)! i thought my thumb was as bad as it could get (when unscrewing a pedal, cue two tasty flaps of skin). show us later!

Now i have your name Biatch!!!!!! Mwhahahahahaha

It's pretty cool seeing the tendons moving once the blood clears. Will get a photo when its unwrapped for the triage nurse. Currently its gone through 2 dressings so I'll definitely need to replace fluids and as the advert says 'Guinness is good for you'.

It's Geoff by the way Josh and Iain.

Couldn't get a shot of it as I got bollocked for getting my phone out. All glued up, which fucking stings by the way, and ready for Guinness on foot rather than wheels.

wheel chair skids?!?

Grad some Wheel chairs!!!

Couldn't get a shot of it as I got bollocked for getting my phone out. All glued up, which fucking stings by the way, and ready for Guinness on foot rather than wheels.

Are you sure you're going to be safe on the bus given your current record? Make sure you're not carrying anything sharp and perhaps wear a helmet just in case.

See you later dude.

wheel chair skids?!?

Grad some Wheel chairs!!!

This is a bit worrrying, first casualties and it is not even midday yet. I was hoping we would make it to 6:15 before we had the first A&E moment.

Oh and Joe G, easy on the quality control mate. We want some left for the rest of us!

don't think I can make it :(

Of course you can. There will be at least one other on foot, and you deserve it, if all the coursework is in.

I may have one more to confirm earlier
quality control test..

will take those with me, thanks Bernie!

I had not seen your post, so have both 26mm ring wrench, and 1/2 drive t-bar, in the bag for this evening.

I may have one more to confirm earlier
quality control test..

Such dedication. I am down the shops to see if I can find a medal or a sherriff's star for you.

Talking of which, saw my first Victoria Cross the other evening. Extraordinary sensation to see the actual award for such bravery.

sounds like you have a worse rep than i do!!!

sounds like you have a worse rep than i do!!!

The expression "takes one, to know one" does indeed come to mind.........

Sorry chaps going to bail out, will bring the cake once finished to drinks. Will probably be easts.

Sorry, raise a glass for me.

Be careful out there guys

Be careful out there guys

Bit late for that.

Bit late for that.
Oh come now, stop whining, its only a scratch. Get on your bike and come on the ride!

(only joking;-)

I meant on the ride, fettling injuries don't count. PS part of me wants to laugh at your injury whilst the other half is satisfied that he wasn't the only idiot to injure himself in the same way.

Oh come now, stop whining, its only a scratch. Get on your bike and come on the ride!

(only joking;-)

Yeah you don't whine when injured do you.

Trying to juggle this with Fiddy's thing, hmmmm. I definitely need a drink, rather badly.