It’s very rare that bicycle is going to mechanically fail and send you flying. Short of the time I was hit by a car, I’ve never had a bicycling emergency — roa

It’s very rare that bicycle is going to mechanically fail and send you flying. Short of the time I was hit by a car, I’ve never had a bicycling emergency — road or mountain — that I wasn’t able to walk away from through some combination of hoping obstacles and/or putting the bike down in a controlled side-skid.