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Old 05-12-11, 10:50 PM
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Originally Posted by murkey

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Practice emergency braking, using both brakes. Frankly I don't think rim brakes on a road bike are strong enough to lock the front wheel. So unless you hit something as your were braking, hard to imagine what would have caused the crash. Maybe you tensed up and twisted the handle bars.
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