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--
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Mark Shroyer said:

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.

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I think I better re-evaluate my position on the relative safety of
recumbents 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)....

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Mark Shroyerhttp://markshroyer.com/

ilaboo said:

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--

I'm only amused by my accidents when I don't draw blood. Luckily,
I've not had many in over twenty years of bicycling. Only less than
ten, actually -- I think maybe no more than five, even.

One thing I've never mastered on the bike is picking up the rear wheel
when going over curbs...I get it only like once every six or eight
times I try. I don't know why, but that's one thing I can't seem to
do for some reason...I'd probably sooner learn to go down a big flight
of stairs than pick up the rear wheel on a curb!

Needless to say, I've had a few accidents trying to go down a flight
of stairs...LOL...once a cop had to keep himself from chuckling when I
suddenly panicked and took a spill over a measly five big steps!
These are the ones down by the "Trade Court" near the BK Bridge....