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> hundreds of wipeouts Wait, hundreds? I don't own a car and use my bike daily, including commuting to work (which means 24 kilometers per day commuting alone)
by lqet 4y ago
> hundreds of wipeouts
Wait, hundreds? I don't own a car and use my bike daily, including commuting to work (which means 24 kilometers per day commuting alone), for around 6 years now. As a kid, I cycled to school every day for 9 years.
I had maybe 2-3 crashes as a kid, and 2 crashes in the last 6 years: once a garbage man rolled a trash can into my handlebar at full speed, and another time a small branch got caught in my front wheel, blocking it completely and sending me flying over the handlebar onto the street.
(The latter was by far the worst bike accident in my life - the bike was ruined, I did not wear a helmet that day, yet for some reason I walked away without even a scratch. Nothing. It didn't even hurt. All the other accidents were far less serious, but always involved pain for days or trips to the hospital for suspected bone fractures).
- avianlyric 4y ago> Wait, hundreds? Maybe they also mountain bike, or do some other sort of high risk bike sport.
- Fricken 4y agoI've done my share of BMX, mountain biking, and winter riding (where minor wipeouts can be common). My last commuting wipeout was a couple years ago when I failed to register a speed bump while going pretty fast. I hit it, my front wheel turned sideways, and I slammed myself into the pavement pretty hard.
- ygra 4y agoI've found cycling in winter (with snow or ice) much easier with studded winter tyres (and some care ... can't go 25 km/h over ice with those, either).