Originally Posted by
wphamilton
Actually a number of people have mentioned the effectiveness of the skills of rolls and falls in this thread. All of them, and myself, having at least a moderate degree of formal training.
I missed any comments about the effectiveness in
bicycle falls.
Originally Posted by
wphamilton
Regarding racers practicing wheel touching and little else, I can't speak for them. I have seen a lot of poorly executed falls in videos, but of course that doesn't mean that all racers have poor skills in that regard. They might have falling training camps for all I know. Regardless, I wouldn't lend much credence to the notion that they'd know more about crashing.
But the effectiveness is "self evident". It is then surprising that racers (who, presumably, fall/crash much more frequently) don't already do it.
Originally Posted by
wphamilton
I probably had more high-speed tumbles from a motorcycle before I was 19 than most bicycle racers have in their entire career, and I'm far better off now almost 40 years later than I was then.
This goes back to what I keep saying. If you crash often, it might make sense to practice falling. If crashing is a very rare event, then it might not make much sense at all.
Racers, it would seem, crash much more frequently than normal riders.