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[Closed] crashing when its distinctly not your own fault

titusrider · 2010-06-17T08:06:50Z

Had a fairly sizable fall last nite about 5 mins into the ride. following a guy in our group down a gently decending 'fireroad' kind of track and decided since he was SS i would acellerate and go past him, plenty of room. Started putting power down and got about 2 pedal strokes in before the chain completly dropped of to the inside (i was middle ring) que me having a complete loss of balance and control, hitting aforementioned ss rider and then going down pretty hard on my right side. couple of bits of road rash on my arm and leg and some bruising :( To chris, sorry for ploughing into you. Last big crash was a high speed front tyre snakebite leaving me unable to make a corner. Do you ride with a knowledge that your bike could let you down and back off accordingly?? i kind of cant bring myself to do that but it really gets to me that the crashes i end up having are not directly my mistakes :( (no further point to my post just interest in your experiances/attitudes)

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DarrenH

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This one's not my fault,
on a bridleway in our local woods one morning a few weeks back.
I slowed down and pulled over to one side to let the lovely young lady who was jogging towards me get past,I managed to hit a small tree stump covered in long grass and promptly flipped over the handlebars to land in an embarrassed heap in front of her.
Still a least she said thanks as she jogged on by...
I blame her and the tree stump! 😆

Posted : 17/06/2010 7:55 pm

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