Old 12-28-23, 03:39 PM
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The answer (for you) depends in great part on your basic worldview, the extent of your lifetime bike experience and your ability to separate your logical and emotional sides.

If you're a relatively new cyclist, this is going to be difficult since you won't have years of safe cycling to help put the crash is perspective. For my part, being something of a fatalist, and with many 10s of thousands of road miles behind me, I'm more able to look at these things as lightning strikes and move on figuring it'll likely be another forty years before it happens again.

That said, my scariest crash involved a steel deck bridge on a rainy day. That was over 50 years ago, and it took years before I had any trust at all in steel decks, and I still hate them to this day.
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