Originally Posted by
jrickards
Black ice has the strange property of being a gravity well: when your bike tires slip on it, you go down about 10x faster than normal.
amen to that. i fell (speed of the fall was scary to be honest) and continued pedalling after getting up (the adrenaline threw me back on my bike in light speed) in a total of like 1.5 second. Weird, but exciting.