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Death Ride Spill
Here is the spill from the death ride. Full Vlog of the ride coming shortly.
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I just never wore gloves. No reason. That is the first time I wrecked since I started riding in 2011, but gloves might be a nice piece of safety gear to have.
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You'll figure out what gloves are for once you have to pick the gravel out of the palm of your hands
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Only once did I ride without gloves and that was a 70.3 triathlon. A bit of time saved during transition resulted in mangled hands when I went down in a roundabout at 25.2mph at mile 15 of the 56 mile bike.
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You can't really tell in the video because you still here the sound of the front break squealing, but I let off the rear brake right after it locked up. Put in front break. Stayed sideways then last minute grabbed rear brake. The squealing that you hear in the video isn't the tires skidding. That's the sound of the brake pads on the carbon wheels.
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Good stop. You will wear leather gloves from now on after you have to get the gravel and asphalt out of your hand.... while you are drinking wine to kill the pain.
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Headed out for a morning recovery ride, then I will get the full vlog done today.
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It was a good controlled stop, you stayed with it. I had a hand that was twice as bad in the same area, right on the pad... looked like raw hamburger. Started on the wine after riding 5 miles to get home and then washed it out. Hurt like a mofo. I never go out without gloves again, even to the grocery store.
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I once crashed a motorcycle almost exactly like that. When I realized that I had gone a little too fast too far into the corner, I just braked as hard as I could in a straight line and fell into the right ditch when the bike was nearly fully stopped. Its called target fixation. See the wall...hit the wall. Later, thinking back, I could have leaned left more agressively while trail braking rear brakes only and would likely have avoided the crash all together. In mitorcycling, if you try applying a little rear brake pressure during a lean, you will notice your radius starts to decrease quickly. I suppose it should work the same on road bikes, especially on dry warm pavement. I just started riding road bikes, so perhaps I am wrong.
Glad you are ok, could have been worse. And yes, gloves and helmet are a must for me now.
Glad you are ok, could have been worse. And yes, gloves and helmet are a must for me now.
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I once crashed a motorcycle almost exactly like that. When I realized that I had gone a little too fast too far into the corner, I just braked as hard as I could in a straight line and fell into the right ditch when the bike was nearly fully stopped. Its called target fixation. See the wall...hit the wall. Later, thinking back, I could have leaned left more agressively while trail braking rear brakes only and would likely have avoided the crash all together. In mitorcycling, if you try applying a little rear brake pressure during a lean, you will notice your radius starts to decrease quickly. I suppose it should work the same on road bikes, especially on dry warm pavement. I just started riding road bikes, so perhaps I am wrong.
Glad you are ok, could have been worse. And yes, gloves and helmet are a must for me now.
Glad you are ok, could have been worse. And yes, gloves and helmet are a must for me now.
Btw I highly recommend Keith codes book and movie for anyone that likes descending. It's meant for motorcycle riders but a lot applies to descending.
Side note I had the fastest descent on strava on both sides of Monitor for the day and 5th out of 5,500 people that have ever descended Monitor using strava.
I am a good descender but I shouldn't have been going that fast on that part of Ebbotts with that many people. I was following my buddy who is really familiar with that road and he knew to start braking but I wasn't paying attention and was telling the guy behind me to watch for the deberes.
Thank you everyone for watching the video.
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Judging what I did wrong, and what I did right from just watching the video is fairly inappropriate because you can't see everything that was around me. You can't feel the tires sliding, you can't feel what the bike was doing. You can't even here the tires skidding. You hear the brake squeal the whole time, but the tires were not skidding the whole time, I was on and off both brakes several times at several different pressures throughout the crash. I don't think anybody could understand the wreck from just watching the video at that crappy angle. But I knew people would. There is a lot of people that already know everything and are very quick to judge. You get used to that when you put videos out, so no big deal. At least I am out there doing it part of the time, makes me happy!
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This will give you guys a little better idea of my opinion on the wreck. If you don't want to watch the whole vlog, just skip to the 10:30 mark and then the part when I am in the car.
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It _seems_ as though you had slowed and had a good opportunity to turn in and late apex the turn.
Target fixation _seems_ to fit the circumstances.
Personally,once over cooking a corner, I find I have to _force_ my head to turn and look through the corner and then commit to turning, whether I can make it or not. I'd almost always rather try to turn and low side than go straight into whatever is in front of me, but it does not come naturally to me.
Target fixation _seems_ to fit the circumstances.
Personally,once over cooking a corner, I find I have to _force_ my head to turn and look through the corner and then commit to turning, whether I can make it or not. I'd almost always rather try to turn and low side than go straight into whatever is in front of me, but it does not come naturally to me.
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FYI - it's not DEBREE, it's debris
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