mscalisi wrote:
>
>
> With a freewheel UPD, you can come straight down. It's possible that
> you fall slightly backwards. My hypothesis about what happened to you
> is that your leg came down at a slightly awkward angle ahead of your
> body weight, and then had all the force of your body push into at 30kmh
>
>
> Had you simply had a regular UPD, you would have fallen forward and
> gotten scraped up, but not forced your leg into an awkward position.
>
There was nothing awkward about the leg position. It was the perfect
angle for snapping it in half. My body was not in front of my leg, it
was behind it. This gives you a rough idea:
_____/O______
Try this- ride a bike really fast.
Now tilt to the side and plant your leg at about 45 degrees into the
ground at 30km/hr.
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