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Sportsman saved by helmet. Makes you wonder how light a cycle helmet could be and still work right.
Frank Krygowski writes:
On 7/24/2014 9:49 AM, jbeattie wrote: On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 7:54:29 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote: This sounds like a place where it would be logical to walk the bike, no? Absolutely not. Walking is far more dangerous than bicycling. You know that. Good point. Sounds like it's time to outlaw walking. Why, if only ONE life can be saved...! When it's really slick the prudent man will sit down and slide, pants be damned. Not that it's dignified, or even easy if one has to hold a bicycle in his lap. -- |
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Sportsman saved by helmet. Makes you wonder how light a cyclehelmet could be and still work right.
On 24/07/14 23:49, jbeattie wrote:
On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 7:54:29 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/22/2014 7:40 PM, jbeattie wrote: I don't know how he went OTB. This grate is right at a dog-leg in the driveway at the bottom of a steep pitch. His front wheel probably did wash out, or else he somehow lost control and got caught on the lip of the grate. I'll cross-examine him mercilessly when he returns to work. This is a dangerous descent. It gets incredibly slick and lots of people have fallen. One guy broke his hip. The building put down some non-skid and has resurfaced the driveway two or three times in the last 20 years, but it has gotten slippery again. The grate is slippery too, and I take it really easy on wet days. I fell a long time ago and don't want to do it again now that I have become brittle. This sounds like a place where it would be logical to walk the bike, no? Absolutely not. Walking is far more dangerous than bicycling. You know that. I wonder if that's because people get off and walk their bicycle, then slip and fall anyway? -- JS |
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Sportsman saved by helmet. Makes you wonder how light a cyclehelmet could be and still work right.
On 24/07/2014 23:09, Radey Shouman wrote:
Frank Krygowski writes: On 7/24/2014 9:49 AM, jbeattie wrote: On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 7:54:29 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote: This sounds like a place where it would be logical to walk the bike, no? Absolutely not. Walking is far more dangerous than bicycling. You know that. Good point. Sounds like it's time to outlaw walking. Why, if only ONE life can be saved...! When it's really slick the prudent man will sit down and slide, pants be damned. Not that it's dignified, or even easy if one has to hold a bicycle in his lap. My father describes coming down a hill and being caught by snow and/or ice. He hopped off the back and slid down on his feet holding onto the saddle. He was a pretty good bike handler, though he has also said that was possibly a lot more luck than judgement :-) |
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Sportsman saved by helmet. Makes you wonder how light a cyclehelmet could be and still work right.
On 7/24/2014 6:09 PM, Radey Shouman wrote:
Frank Krygowski writes: On 7/24/2014 9:49 AM, jbeattie wrote: On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 7:54:29 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote: This sounds like a place where it would be logical to walk the bike, no? Absolutely not. Walking is far more dangerous than bicycling. You know that. Good point. Sounds like it's time to outlaw walking. Why, if only ONE life can be saved...! When it's really slick the prudent man will sit down and slide, pants be damned. Not that it's dignified, or even easy if one has to hold a bicycle in his lap. In that incident when I slipped and sat down on wet grass while walking my bike, I suppose I'd have been better off by sitting down first and sliding down that hill. If I'd done that, the helmet I was carrying wouldn't have broken. Ah, hindsight! -- - Frank Krygowski |
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Sportsman saved by helmet. Makes you wonder how light a cyclehelmet could be and still work right.
On Thursday, July 24, 2014 3:16:17 PM UTC-7, James wrote:
On 24/07/14 23:49, jbeattie wrote: On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 7:54:29 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/22/2014 7:40 PM, jbeattie wrote: I don't know how he went OTB. This grate is right at a dog-leg in the driveway at the bottom of a steep pitch. His front wheel probably did wash out, or else he somehow lost control and got caught on the lip of the grate. I'll cross-examine him mercilessly when he returns to work. This is a dangerous descent. It gets incredibly slick and lots of people have fallen. One guy broke his hip. The building put down some non-skid and has resurfaced the driveway two or three times in the last 20 years, but it has gotten slippery again. The grate is slippery too, and I take it really easy on wet days. I fell a long time ago and don't want to do it again now that I have become brittle. This sounds like a place where it would be logical to walk the bike, no? Absolutely not. Walking is far more dangerous than bicycling. You know that. I wonder if that's because people get off and walk their bicycle, then slip and fall anyway? Yes, if it is icy or wet and you're in cleats. You could probably walk down it in tennis shoes when it's wet -- except that it is a scary place to walk. It's a narrow chute with no pedestrian facility, and cars can't see you from the top. To follow up on the original story, my workmate did not slip on the steel grate on the ramp. He hit the round grate over a floor drain near the lift-arm gate at the bottom of the ramp. He basically dropped in to a pot hole and went semi-OTB (with the usual side-ways component). You have to watch for that pot hole when you come flying down the hill. There are bones all around it from dead cyclists. -- Jay Beattie. |
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Sportsman saved by helmet. Makes you wonder how light a cycle helmet could be and still work right.
On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 14:39:20 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote: On 7/24/2014 9:49 AM, jbeattie wrote: On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 7:54:29 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote: This sounds like a place where it would be logical to walk the bike, no? Absolutely not. Walking is far more dangerous than bicycling. You know that. Good point. Sounds like it's time to outlaw walking. Why, if only ONE life can be saved...! I read that some 450 people die from falling.... out of bed, annually. True, bicycle related deaths are higher but any accidental death is a disaster and we must make wearing protective garments mandatory for sleepers as well as cyclists! -- Cheers, John B. |
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Sportsman saved by helmet. Makes you wonder how light a cycle helmet could be and still work right.
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:16:17 +1000, James
wrote: On 24/07/14 23:49, jbeattie wrote: On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 7:54:29 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/22/2014 7:40 PM, jbeattie wrote: I don't know how he went OTB. This grate is right at a dog-leg in the driveway at the bottom of a steep pitch. His front wheel probably did wash out, or else he somehow lost control and got caught on the lip of the grate. I'll cross-examine him mercilessly when he returns to work. This is a dangerous descent. It gets incredibly slick and lots of people have fallen. One guy broke his hip. The building put down some non-skid and has resurfaced the driveway two or three times in the last 20 years, but it has gotten slippery again. The grate is slippery too, and I take it really easy on wet days. I fell a long time ago and don't want to do it again now that I have become brittle. This sounds like a place where it would be logical to walk the bike, no? Absolutely not. Walking is far more dangerous than bicycling. You know that. I wonder if that's because people get off and walk their bicycle, then slip and fall anyway? You don't need walk a bicycle to push to fall down. Just go down to the Pub on a Saturday night... unless you pick one with no beer :-) -- Cheers, John B. |
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