Originally Posted by
erig007
The same thing happened to me 2 days ago (my bike just slipped out to the left on black ice as well) but i saved it. I had platform pedals.
In those 2 videos these guys seemed to have anticipated falls. They acted before a major motion of the bike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tdJazvWEcQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on6QZXvNDHk
In this one it doesn't seems he did
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxpB1TszKME
Bike move first (rotate in this case) and the guy reacts to the bike rotating. Pretty much like in a case of an unexpected fast slipping wheel on black ice.
From what i've read it takes about 250ms for someone to react to a stimulus.
Your reaction to the event was pretty much like my accident with a car a few years back. Got early warning (in your case the rear wheel slipping) but chose to
dismiss it. It happens even to the best
Processing of this first stimulus probably resulted in generating a psychological refractory period in which processing of a second stimulus was slowed down by processing of the first one.
The N360 hub is totally different from what most other cyclists use, and totally different from my old bike that i had over a decade. I literally said out loud to myself "ah man, they better fix this quick when i take it in" as it all ready needs to go in for new brake pads, chain lube, and chain case install. The bike over-all is great, i'm simply not used to owning and using a bike like this... i've had a kids bike then a full suspension mountain bike, then a road bike, and then the cruiser. and i had the cruiser for 12 years. I ran the mountain bike into the ground as it was basically a BSO and was not worth buying new parts for, the road bike was OK but my skill and confidence level was not as good back then, so i opted to ride my brother's schwinn cruiser most of the time if available, then i got my own cruiser..... so... its easy to dismiss an issue like crank slip (crank rotate, wheel not) with this bike as something i can check out later. This is also the first time this winter it snowed then sleeted then rained then got above freezing on a clear day. So as most incidents tend to be, it wasnt one thing, it was a combination of factors. I'm just glad the instinct to pull my head away from the ground kicked in or i'd probably need another new helmet.
- Andy