Originally Posted by
mkadam68
Yeah, I think the biggest problem when you touch your front wheel is the panic factor and in our minds somewhere we have "If you touch, you're going down" mentality. Just 'cause you touch, you don't have to go down. I've done it several times over the years, thankfully never going down from it. Nerve wracking, though.
mg:
A few weeks ago the person directly in front of me suddenly slowed and turned right, onto a road that used to be a construction detour but recently has become impassable. The rest of us were going straight. I saw the two people in front of him go straight. I knew the detour was now a mud pit. I just didn't know HE didn't know that. It caught me off guard - I should have been more cautious going through the ever-changing maze of highway construction - but somehow I got a foot unclipped and managed to slide with my foot and pedal down. The bike was totally fine and aside from a gnarly bruise on my arm, I wasn't hurt at all. (I still can't figure out what the bruise was from. Maybe the saddle?) I was about 6" off his wheel when he turned - could I have avoided going down altogether?