Originally Posted by
big john
A friend's wife hit a deer while descending in the mountains. She did suffer a concussion but luckily it wasn't too bad. She stopped riding after that. Several weeks ago another friend crashed after hitting a cat. She had several injuries and fractures.
Some years ago a pro, maybe it was Bob Roll, said to see what it's like to crash during a race: First, strip down to your underwear and have someone take you up to 50mph in their car, then jump out.
Had Bob Roll as a guest speaker (as well as Davis Phinney) at a Seattle bike festival. Bob spoke for two hours non-stop. We were almost begging him to stop because our sides hurt so much from laughing. He did not bless us with the jumping out of a car, but he did talk about roller blading though the Milan airport with police in hot pursuit with their automatic weapons drawn.