Old 07-30-18, 10:44 AM
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There will certainly be a split second of pause at the top especially if you have a balance point touching the ground. I flipped twice in the past few years once on a trail going down a boulder twisted sideways and more or less stayed on the bike. Another time on the road slamming on the brakes getting cut off by a car who insult to injury laughed at me to boot. Flipped once as a teen borrowing some kids bike who's only handbrake it turns out was for the front wheel. Flipped a shopping cart in my late teens with hundreds of pounds of ice in it (force equals mass times acceleration) coming down a hill and hit the lip of the curb coming up a handicapped ramp. I felt the floaty mid air apex on that one. A friend was there fairly close and a big big guy I was like catch me and he was like nah. Idk if he was even close enough. Broke my thumb or wrist on that one. And glad I'm not the oldest one having the first kid at 40.
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