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> Do you also ride them at serious speeds? There's a hill near my house where I used to regularly hit 70kph. There's a super-sketchy cross street right at the
by steelframe 4y ago
> Do you also ride them at serious speeds?
There's a hill near my house where I used to regularly hit 70kph. There's a super-sketchy cross street right at the bottom of that hill with motorists always trying to white-knuckle gun it into traffic, so I've stopped doing that.
For all of my crashes I was going at or under 15kph. Which is probably why I'm still here to tell you all about it.
- mcv 4y ago70 kph definitely sounds like helmet speed to me. Though I admit as a kid I was sometimes clocked (by someone with a speedometer) at 40-50 kph on my city bike on slight downward slopes, and I never wore a helmet. But those were only brief bits under fairly optimal circumstances. The last couple of times I fell (less than a handful over the past 30 years) were all extremely icy road conditions. Almost all, because I just remember one where a car brutally cut me off turning into a side street while I was barreling down the road at pretty extreme speed. I avoided a collision by making an extremely tight turn into the same side street. That was a street that really should have had a separate bike path. (I think it was here [0], though I don't remember crossing that raised sidewalk; maybe they changed that since then, or I misremember.) [0] https://www.google.com/maps/@52.3507984,4.854121,3a,75y,108.03h,58.86t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1stoHknqEWtTOayBsTTgdm6w!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DtoHknqEWtTOayBsTTgdm6w%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D269.35242%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@52.3507984,4.854121,3a,75y,108....