Re: Why Do People Fall Down?

"Prisoner at War" <prisoner_at_war@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:1193339577.469836.227250@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I mean, when it's a nice flat road, no one's around them, it's sunny,
> dry, no winds...how do people just go plop! in front of you like that?
>
> I saw this three times on Sunday's Tour de Bronx in NYC (great ride;
> free food and water and no helmets required!!!)...they're not going
> fast, they weren't going downhill, no one was around them (I was a
> good four yards behind), and suddenly they fall.  Just like that.
>
> I fall out of my bike like once every five years due to trying to ride
> down stairs or something like that.  How do these people just fall in
> perfectly good conditions?  They weren't newbie riders either,
> apparently.
>
> Weird.

What's the matter - can't keep a single user name? Try your real name 
sometime why don't you!

The reason people fall is because being on only 2 wheels is inherently 
unstable. If you never want to fall, get a 3 wheeled re***bent. Elementary

my dear Watson!

Mr. Tom Sherman, an engineering and physics jerk, could explain this in 
terms that even you could understand, but all he is capable of these days
is 
pissing me off - so the less we hear from him, the better.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota