(26-05-25, 11:57 AM)Grahamm Wrote: Can't you get aftermarket levers with an adjustable span?
The OEM clutch on my FZ6 was designed for someone with bigger hands than mine, but after buying a replacement set from eBay it was much easier.
As mentioned with me it's not the size of my hands that's the issue, it's nerve damage pain that's the problem.
It will ease up with time like it already has from when I first got back on the bike.
Gotta remember too that, injuries aside, I hadn't used the bike for nearly 18 months, and had also lost strength in my hand so every time I use the levers it's a repetitive exercise that helps me get my strength back to the way it was.
My short levers do have 6 settings to choose from, and I use them on #2 setting, as #1 setting doesn't work well enough for me.
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(26-05-25, 07:29 AM)darrsi Wrote: But on the plus side a Neurologist read my injury report and said she deal's with people with lesser injuries than i had who have never even made it back to work, so whatever i'm doing i need to carry on because i'm doing it right!
The  most definitely has healing properties. 
As for the clutch, try clutch-less changing. It works a treat on the FZS600 but only going up the box as its not that good going down. Slight pressure under the gear leaver then a quick off and on the throttle and it into slips into the next gear smoothly once you get the hang of it. Not so good in slow heavy traffic either, works best when making progress.
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Im struggling. Not been on the bike for a couple of months now due to the hands. several fingers locking up, struggling to grip anything, no prospect of any treatment until June July time, apart from paying for private treatment again. Ive an open appointment but it makes no difference to waitin times. Ive aslo now got a crocked knee due to worn cartilage. However, Im still alive.
(19-02-26, 10:18 PM)agricola Wrote: Im struggling. Not been on the bike for a couple of months now due to the hands. several fingers locking up, struggling to grip anything, no prospect of any treatment until June July time, apart from paying for private treatment again. Ive an open appointment but it makes no difference to waitin times. Ive aslo now got a crocked knee due to worn cartilage. However, Im still alive.
Totally feel for you Agricola. Getting a few miles on our body clocks is certainly a bitch. Wear and tear from past sports start to catch up, and coupled with winter weather fuels a depressed outlook. Currently coughing my way through the “100 day cough” that seems to be doing the rounds. Only got another 30 days to go. Hopefully when spring arrives we’ll all feel a bit better.
Riding the bike regularly is a work out in itself, although we aren’t aware of it at the time. Due to a few treatments since last May, my biking time has been rather limited, and a clutch action that used to be fine now tends to feel on the heavy side, which in reality it isn’t. I think I’ll take a leaf from Fazer scotty’s book, and try fitting a clutch arm from an MT07, in a search for a lighter “pull”.
Chin up matey.
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I remember when I first went to the clinic with the hands, the consultant looked at them, hen injected the cortisone there and then. That was the case for the first four or five treatments., perhaps three times year. Now the clinics are only on twice a year., and it all has to be done under live x ray vision, with a room full of various medics. When I've had to go private, I just rock up at the appointed time, consultant looks at the hands, injects and Im off home £300 lighter, all done in ten minutes.
I miss the old days. GPs don't do anything now at Doctors. I can remember as a kid being stitched up twice by the doc, no anesthetics, having fluid drawn out of bad knees, cortisone stuck in etc. These days, all they do is refer you on to a waiting for treatment elsewhere.
If you’re lucky enough to get an appointment they just seem to mug you off with a prescription as soon as possible. If anti biotics don’t work, then you’re on your own. Yep, totally agree, oh for the old days when docs actually did stuff………..rant over
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Oh no, I'm on one now.
Forgot to say the private consultant works at the same NHS clinic for the hands, so he's got a side hustle, but which is it? Going back now, my Gp came out one night in the 80s when I collapsed after a bad reaction to an antibiotic. I just managed to take the latch off the front door before passing out. I reckon he saved my life.
Over the decades, it seems to me that certain groups within the NHS have engineered positions of some power over government and us peasants, GPs/consultants etc, and now the junior doctors, who no doubt will be toddling of to side hustles too in the future. Light years away from my early experiences of the NHS which has saved my life on two previous occasions. The first was as a five year old, spending several weeks in an isolation hospital, followed by several more recovering in a general hospital.
Where did it all go wrong?
"Where did it all go wrong?"
I'm certain that someone will be along to set you straight on that.
I'm not sure if having the operation has made my hands any better - my finger joints certainly ache more, which, when your still on the tools, working in cold conditions, can be a tad depressing.
I expect you have considered the work gloves aimed at Raynaud’s disease sufferers. Just a thought.
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