Why Do People Fall Down?

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On Oct 25, 2:12 pm, Prisoner at War <[email protected]> wrote:
> I mean, when it's a nice flat road, no one's around them, it's sunny,
> dry, no winds...how do people just go plop! in front of you like that?
>
> I saw this three times on Sunday's Tour de Bronx in NYC (great ride;
> free food and water and no helmets required!!!)...they're not going
> fast, they weren't going downhill, no one was around them (I was a
> good four yards behind), and suddenly they fall. Just like that.
>
> I fall out of my bike like once every five years due to trying to ride
> down stairs or something like that. How do these people just fall in
> perfectly good conditions? They weren't newbie riders either,
> apparently.
>
> Weird.

i think it has happened to us all. you are so relaxed, there is
nothing on the road and you are in your own world and then suddenly it
hits you and a subtle move on the handle bar and you are going down. i
have never fall like that but i have had my close calls, it is mostly
when i ride B pace rides, so my advice is to keep it live and keep it
strong, stay with the A pacers, even if you stay at the back
carlos
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On Nov 13, 7:40 am, [email protected] wrote:
> On Oct 25, 2:12 pm, Prisoner at War <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I mean, when it's a nice flat road, no one's around them, it's sunny,
> > dry, no winds...how do people just go plop! in front of you like that?
>
> i think it has happened to us all.

Nope. Absolutely not.

- Frank Krygowski

 

[ilaboo]

could be a medical condition cardiac problems ,seizures ( non jacksonian)
drugs, medications etc
"Prisoner at War" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I mean, when it's a nice flat road, no one's around them, it's sunny,
> dry, no winds...how do people just go plop! in front of you like that?
>
> I saw this three times on Sunday's Tour de Bronx in NYC (great ride;
> free food and water and no helmets required!!!)...they're not going
> fast, they weren't going downhill, no one was around them (I was a
> good four yards behind), and suddenly they fall. Just like that.
>
> I fall out of my bike like once every five years due to trying to ride
> down stairs or something like that. How do these people just fall in
> perfectly good conditions? They weren't newbie riders either,
> apparently.
>
> Weird.
>

 

[ilaboo]

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" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Oct 25, 11:56 pm, Mark Shroyer <[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
>> 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)....
>
>> --
>> Mark Shroyerhttp://markshroyer.com/
>
>

 

[Prisoner at War]

On Nov 15, 6:25 pm, "ilaboo" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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....