Originally Posted by
terrymorse
You've been fortunate that your poor descending technique has not caused a crash. So far.
The only merit that argument has is that it can never be proven wrong.
Do you have any evidence that "losing grip of the handlebars" is an actual cause of significant numbers of accidents, because I've never seen it and I've never heard of it happening. When I've wiped out from hitting a pothole-type obstacle, I've ended up on the ground because the bike went flying, not my arms. If anything, the bump forced the handlebars up into my hands. Braking effectiveness is pretty much irrelevant by the time the handlebars undergoing anything that violent, anyway.