I was happily coming home from 70km (43 miles) ride. In final
kilometer I made a misjudgment on speed. I was coming to a bike path
junction; there was mildly descent before the junction so that I got a
good speed (no one was near the junction). I turned right and made a
bit shortcut outside the asphalt where the ground was a bit lower.
That was enough to loose control. I tried pedal ever faster until I
had to bail-out. I could not run fast enough, so I fell, right arm
forwards and left arm in the side. My right wrist guard made a nice
blue 1.6 meter line to the asphalt and 0.1m beyond the asphalt. I did
not hurt my self, not even a drop of blood, no bruises; only skin
turned slightly red here and there (left shoulder, left forearm, right
thumb, knees). Even my clothes got punished very little. I think I
managed to fall relaxed. I was lucky, only one little sharp rock on
the asphalt and I would have quit many stitches.
For some reason you always pedal real fast to try and gain balance before falling. Makes for a nasty fall. Did you land on your feel first? I am gald you were not hurt.
Re: Another Coker fall. Sliding 1.7m (5.6 ft) on asphalt
Wow, good that you had no injuries. Proof once more of the importance
of armour! A skidmark of 1.7 m is not too long though, given that you
tried to speed out of this.
Klaas Bil
On Sat, 11 May 2002 23:53:35 +0300, Mika Holkeri
<mika.holkeri@pragmasoft.fi_remove_this> wrote:
>I was happily coming home from 70km (43 miles) ride. In final
>kilometer I made a misjudgment on speed. I was coming to a bike path
>junction; there was mildly descent before the junction so that I got a
>good speed (no one was near the junction). I turned right and made a
>bit shortcut outside the asphalt where the ground was a bit lower.
>That was enough to loose control. I tried pedal ever faster until I
>had to bail-out. I could not run fast enough, so I fell, right arm
>forwards and left arm in the side. My right wrist guard made a nice
>blue 1.6 meter line to the asphalt and 0.1m beyond the asphalt. I did
>not hurt my self, not even a drop of blood, no bruises; only skin
>turned slightly red here and there (left shoulder, left forearm, right
>thumb, knees). Even my clothes got punished very little. I think I
>managed to fall relaxed. I was lucky, only one little sharp rock on
>the asphalt and I would have quit many stitches.
>
>-Mika
>
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Re: Another Coker fall. Sliding 1.7m (5.6 ft) on asphalt
“dan” <dan.4ifxa@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote in message news:dan.4ifxa@timelimit.unicyclist.com…
>
> For some reason you always pedal real fast to try and gain balance
> before falling. Makes for a nasty fall. Did you land on your feel
> first? I am gald you were not hurt.
>
It’s bad when you do that and fall off, but when you pull yourself out of
the fall and keep going it’s the best thing ever. It stopped me going under
a lorry once too, so I’m quite glad of this particular instinct.