Originally Posted by
Phantoj
Who cares? Some of you guys seem so proud about having never fallen! One would think you popped out of the womb while trackstanding!
If you've never, ever fallen on a bike, it probably still has training wheels on it.
On the other hand, I see no value in the fatalistic "you've either fallen or you're going to fall" philosophy. It doesn't matter whether you will fall or not, only whether you'll get back on if you do.
It's not that we are proud not to have fallen because of a failure to remember clip out of the pedals, it's just that it's idiotic to assume that it must happen. Maybe it will happen to me some day, I don't know, I can't see the future.
As for never fallen on a bike... I certainly have fallen, and broken plenty of bones doing it. It was just never because I couldn't remember to unclip from my pedals.
As far as I'm concerned it doesn't really matter if someone falls or not. Like you said, as long as they get back on. I just don't understand why people feel the need to reassure themselves or others that it's ok because
everyone does it. It's common, it happens to a lot of people, it's no big deal, whatever. It doesn't have to happen to every single person to make it ok to happen to you.