this looks painful

[Marty Wallace]

"Baka Dasai" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 08:22:57 +1100, Terry Collins said (and I quote):
> > Marty Wallace wrote:
> >
> >> Everyone talks about this tuck -and-roll method for falling off a bike
but
> >> I've seen a lot of crashes in my time and I've NEVER seen anyone do
anything
> >> like that.
> >
> > You have to train yourself to say roll, roll stupid, roll {
> > It works, so long as that is all you DO.
>
> I race skateboards down hills as well as ride a bike, and the general
> wisdom when it comes to falling off a skateboard is that rolling falls
> tend to result in broken bones, whereas sliding falls tend to result in
> loss of skin.
>
> Of course in skateboarding you typically can wear padding with hard
> plastic slide pucks, including on the palms of your hands, so that tends
> to affect the way people fall and the general preference for sliding
> rather than rolling.

Yeah but the thing is that on a bicycle you're clipped in. It's easy to make
a decision on how you'll fall off a skateboard because you're not straddling
a bar and your feet are free to leave the device.

Marty

>
> Any motorcyclists among us? I imagine they also prefer to slide rather
> than roll.
> --
> What was I thinking?