Re: Why Do People Fall Down?

mistook a white curb as a driveway and came at it at a very acute ange--3 o

am in the morning--the bronx--laughed myself silly when i fell down. also 
hit a 10 inch log hidden by grass--also laughed when i crashed into it
with 
my MTB--
"Prisoner at War" <prisoner_at_war@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Oct 25, 11:56 pm, Mark Shroyer <usenet-m...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I did more or less the same thing myself, a few years back, on the
>> University of Florida campus.  Except in my case I was on a mountain
>> bike, so (1) I didn't have the poor-point-of-view excuse for my
>> mistake, and (2) instead of flying into an upright position, I flew
>> over the handlebars and smacked my cheek on the pavement.
>
> Oooohh!!!!!
>
> I had a few over-the-handlebars on various uprights, too...luckily,
> none of them required a helmet!  So that's why I never felt like I
> needed a helmet.
>
>> I think I better re-evaluate my position on the relative safety of
>> re***bents versus upright bicycles...
>
> I was told that the HP Velotechnik SMGTe was a very bad design where
> the slamming of brakes was concerned...but it was so comfy I had to
> get one!  And then I found out that it's not dangerous at all in that
> respect, and that was the only respect in which it would have been
> dangerous.
>
> I've even gone downhill very fast in the rain once...it was a good six-
> degree gradient hill at least...I pumped the brakes a bit and not
> totally slammed them, but I was still "upright" all that time...I
> skidded for about five seconds!  This was that big hill in Tarrytown,
> NY, by that college and convent, if another knows what I'm talking
> about...it's a T-intersection, and the coffee shop I would have
> crashed into had folks looking out their window at me, LOL....
>
> I ride around NYC and let most everybody try out my 'bent...so far,
> there's only been one guy who didn't pick it up within a minute's
> time...and everybody instinctively recognizes how safe it is, from a
> physics-of-the-road standpoint (decreased vantage is a serious issue
> one will need to master with time, however)....
>
>> --
>> Mark Shroyerhttp://markshroyer.com/
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