Old 04-17-14, 11:12 AM
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merlinextraligh
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Sorry to hear you crashed. Really sucks breaking your hip. Heal fast.

As for the video, I think you can make an argument that the guy on the outside chopped your line. He had plenty of room on the outside, and didn't need to turn that tight.

That said leading up to the curve, you seem to be jumping around a lot first inside then outside. And while the guy took the corner tighter than you did, I don't see why you couldn't have kept turning inside him.

I can't make out from the video what collided with what intially, i.e. did his body hit your body, did your handlbar hit him , etc., but it seems like that bump was surviveable.

It appears that when you bump, instead of riding through the curve in contact with him, you slow, continue going wider and your wheel gets chopped.

Of course it's easy to armchair quarterback. Harder to react in that split second.
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