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I've noticed this year that if I am at freeway speeds, my fingers are getting a beating accross the first joint past the knuckle.... usually my index fingers, on both hands .
Has anyone else noticed an unusually high number of strikes to the hands, on the FZ? I got whacked with a rock flipped up by a logging truck Tuesday, had to be a bit smaller than a golf ball, or it would have broken my finger.
Wednesday, some sort of heavily laden bug whacked into the switch assembly on the throttle side.... left a sticky spot like sap, a good 2" accross.
I'd like to know if the '07 and later fairings are producing similar results..... if anyone else is taking the same sort of abuse as me, that is. It would be quite painful, without heavy padded gloves.
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Originally Posted by RJN2112
I've noticed this year that if I am at freeway speeds, my fingers are getting a beating accross the first joint past the knuckle.... usually my index fingers, on both hands .
Has anyone else noticed an unusually high number of strikes to the hands, on the FZ? I got whacked with a rock flipped up by a logging truck Tuesday, had to be a bit smaller than a golf ball, or it would have broken my finger.
Wednesday, some sort of heavily laden bug whacked into the switch assembly on the throttle side.... left a sticky spot like sap, a good 2" accross.
I'd like to know if the '07 and later fairings are producing similar results..... if anyone else is taking the same sort of abuse as me, that is. It would be quite painful, without heavy padded gloves.
You need to stop drafting those dump trucks...
I have noticed this, but, it is infrequent.
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gloves man......if you love your hands clothe them in some leather and carbon fiber. i'm sure things have hit my hands but i never rider without gloves so i have no idea.
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I get hit with rocks from time to time, but no nothin out of the ordinary on the FZ
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you know what....thinking about it my weiner is pretty funny!
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gloves man......if you love your hands clothe them in some leather and carbon fiber. i'm sure things have hit my hands but i never rider without gloves so i have no idea.
I always wear gloves, and I still have felt the infrequent piece of gravel hit them. I may ride around the block without a helmet, but, I never ride without gloves!
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I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day. - Frank Sinatra
I seem to recall reading that the palms of the hand are the one thing the docs cannot fix via skin grafting or any other method when burned or torn up. Gloves are good things ...
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No, anything hitting my hands is infrequent. Or it's tiny stuff, and I don't feel it through the gloves.
That's what makes the stirkes I've been taking stand out.... I wear insulated leather gauntlets, and when I get hit with something big enough to leave a bruise through those gloves, I remember it.
Rock strikes on my hands
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