Originally Posted by
Maelochs
People can Claim that if I could fall with control, I could ride with control and stop the wreck. Those people simply do not know,. Others claim that there is never time to do anything but flop around. Those people simply do not know.
I agree with this. You can react in time to mitigate the impact of most, but not all crashes, provided you've either trained in falls or experienced enough crashes to have ingrained some reactions.
I think the stumbling block is that people are more familiar with reaction times while driving - experts tend to use 1.5 seconds as a standard between perceiving a threat and reacting to it (such as braking). Or tested at almost 2.5 seconds in some cases. Between a bike unexpectedly out of control and hitting the ground is much less than 1.5 or 2.5 seconds. So, I think, they look at those times, think of bike crashes, and decide it's impossible.
There is a fundamental difference though, because crashing and falling involves kinesthetic stimulus, invoking the somatosensory cortex resulting in significantly faster reactions. IF you're not consciously processing, evaluating and deciding etc.
(F=MA.) If you are falling standing, or falling while moving forward at 20 mph, you will Not hit with the same force.
Hint: these are not scalar quantities.