On Wednesday, June 19, 2024 at 11:33:04 PM UTC-5 Pam Bikes wrote: Most bike crashes are solo falls.
Do you have a source of statistics to back up that claim? My experience over 50 years is 3 falls caused by being hit by a car (+1 hit by car where I didn't fall), 3 by tangling with another cyclist, 2 by a dog running into my front wheel, and 1 by a hawk flying into my front wheel. My "solo falls" are twice going down on ice and once going down on a dirt road mountain descent hairpin turn. I was wearing a helmet on all of those occasions except one of the dog incidents. On the hawk incident the helmet likely spared me some damage, and on the one dog incident a helmet likely would have spared me the concussion and cuts. All the others, including all three of the car incidents, two of which involved flipping over the hoods of the cars, the helmet didn't come into play. Ted Durant Milwaukee, WI USA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/d4e7c5ca-b7e4-4d50-8030-e17b06a4a830n%40googlegroups.com.
