Originally Posted by krazyderek
Pro's often pull 110km/h going down some of those giant mountains that take them 20 minutes to climb, do you think they're worrying about how their face would look painted on the pavement for the next 400 meters? of course not, truth is if you crash at those speeds, the only thing that will survive is your helmet strap, and a part of the carbon sole from your shoe, oh, and a ball of tinfoil like metal that was your bike. At those speeds, rolling with the fall is barely even an option, just pray you have really thick bones
Hmm... interesting... I came across a wreck one time pretty soon after it happened. The guy's clothes was completely stripped off his body, probably within the first 10-20m or so. Then the bloody-smear started as he slid and tumbled across the rough pavement. The corners like knees, elbows, fingers, shoulders, hip-bones were ground completely down to the bone and beyond. A lot of the flesh and muscles were ripped off as well, no buttocks left, one forearm was missing, the other had all the muscles stripped off. The intestines and organs where left at various points in the slide, stomach at 70m liver at 75m, spleen@85m, intestines stretched from 65-95m. Strange thing was all the body-fat everywhere, it's not like the white beef-fat you see at the butchers, it's more rounded, smooth and yellow, like chicken-fat. If it wasn't for the shoes sticking out of the lump of flesh at the end of the smear, I wouldn't have known it was a human. Not sure how fast he was going when he crashed though...