So far about 10K mi without a crash. In general the pilot's hips are protected by
the stoker's bars and the stoker tends to get the worst of any fall. When we
first started riding, I would sometimes pound on the pilots back to get him to
slow down, now he is much more reasonable about downhill charges into curves.
Both of us have been influenced by significant crashes on singles, me by going
down at 36mph into a L turn and wondering if I was going to ever stop sliding
(road rash only, two trashed wheels) and the pilot by being knocked down in
a scrum by a squirrelly rider up ahead: clavicle and rib fractures, near facet jump of C5, partial shoulder paresis, resolving progressively after a cervical fusion). Gravel and sand scare the hell out of me, and now of the pilot as well, not good in view of the
tonnages dumped on our roads with the snows earlier this year.