Originally Posted by
Six jours
They happened to me because I was racing.
I didn't know you were a racer - - Some day I need to pick your mind, and get to know you better
I suspect that any kind of mass-start racing makes crashing inevitable.
Which is one of the reasons I would never race lol
And I suspect that many other kinds of bike riding also makes crashing inevitable. For me, it's off-road riding. Between the nature of the thing and the fact that I kind of suck at it, I fall. And because I fall, I wear my helmet.
But on the road, after I quit racing I switched to relatively upright randonneuring bikes with stable handling and wide tires, and I take absolutely no chances at all. While I admit to the possibility of crashing that bike in those circumstances, it strikes me as pretty unlikely, and history so far bears this out.
So "inevitable" - as in "If you ride a bike you will eventually crash" - will always seem a very sad testament, to me.
True, true -- May have been a poor choice of words on my part. Nevertheless, not many riders have your experience and ride with your level of expertise and safety.