Ok, I have a potentially stupid question on the learning to fall thing. Does one need to anticipate a crash for this to be of any use. The reason I ask this is that on my most serious crash of the year (the Coolangatta one), my back wheel slid out from under me after hitting an oil slick when I went to take a roundabout way too fast.
I did manage to eventually slide away on my backside, but the initial impact was with my head because I simply wasn't ready to crash when it happened.
Oh yeah, my other crashes:
Surfers Paradise -- not serious, but a stupid one where I wasn't concentrating when picking my way through dense traffic. The lesson from that one is obvious.
Spicers Gap -- caused by riding slick tyres on a dirt road with loose gravel everywhere and losing the back wheel (kind of anticipated and was going slowly at the time)
Brays Creek -- see Spicer's Gap above.
BTW CZ, with my original thread I wasn't trying to brag about anyone's fortune or lack of it. I was just curious.
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