Re: Why Do People Fall Down?

Prisoner at War wrote:
> On Oct 25, 4:06 pm, "Brother Oswald" <brot...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> Don't know.  It's a mystery.  I saw it happen to a guy riding my
re***bent.
>> No discernable rider error.  No bike malfunction.  No adverse road
>> conditions. No plausible explanation.  I suspect it was caused by
something
>> out there in the re***bent twilight zone.
>>
>> Os
> 
> 
> The last time I went flying off my bike (without a helmet, of course)
> was on my 'bent, on the campus of the College of Staten Island, where
> from my height and distance mistook a flight of stairs for a ramp (the
> steps were big and wide and from that vantage point looked like a ramp
> descent).  After the first few steps I put on the break and went
> flying out of my Street Machine!  But not headlong like on an upright;
> I went flying, but always rightside-up, and so landed on my feet
> without even having thought about it....

I did this on my RANS Rocket when I hit a patch of sand while riding 
along an unpaved trail. No harm, no foul.

-- 
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
When did ignorance of biology become a "family value"?