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driving at high speeds without protection
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Depends on if you get thrown high, or cartwheel, but for sliding leathers and other gear offer a ton of protection.
I rode sensibly for probably 20 years. Gear always. It paid off as I was rounding a corner and kids had left pebbles and chalk in the road. A pebble went under the rear wheel like a marble, so then with no grip the rear just slide out sideways and bike was immediately gone from under me. It was like a cartoon.. Blink blink...then gravity kicks in. I went down into a tucked front roll and then a slide. Stood up with no damage other than my thumb being a bit sore from leading the front roll. Solved by holding a cold beer at home.
Also bike was fine as I had installed frame sliders.
Nice move. I assume this was practiced a bit, like a martial artist practicing a break-fall, right?
Actually yes, I had done several years of breakfalls years prior, and that training became instinct for handling this situation of "Hey I'm up in the air moving at decent speed, with the ground approaching me”
Ah. Ya know, I didn't even look at the username. ;-)
We may have trained in the same organizations, except if you practiced a lotta break-falls then you wouldn't've been under Shihan Sato like me (near Langara station). We only practiced that in seminars.
I last did break-falls when Sensei Pat McCarthy came to the Island and I was there, and I ended up bruising my hip joint (ah jeez did that f'n sting) from a few janky hits.