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Injured

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 1:00 pm
by charger
off road injury school boy error my thumb & base of thumb got banged up at the weekend at a pay & play, the steering wheel gave my poor thumb a right whack. Ripped ligaments & damaged tendons. No breaks so it's just swollen & bruised. I also broke a brake hose whilst on a decent nearly shit my shorts.

Re: Injured

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 1:02 pm
by ScottieJ
Not good matey! we've all been there, well maybe not quite that badly but I've caught my thumb a few times eventhough 99.5% of the time my thumbs are outside the steering wheel :lol:

Re: Injured

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 1:03 pm
by turbo-tom
ahh man lesson learnt the amount of times i see people driving with there thumbs inside the steering wheel and p n p sites :blowup:

anyways hope you have speeding recovery :doublethumbs:

Re: Injured

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 3:26 pm
by ianedwards
thats the first thing we where tought. Keep your thumbs out.

becomes habit.

hope it gets better

ian

Re: Injured

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:54 pm
by Highlander
I bet you don't do it again :D

Re: Injured

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 6:14 pm
by Edweird
You have to do the same with crank handle starting cars. Keep your thumb outside the handle so if the engine fights back it just slips past your palm.