Here I go again...

[Ivor]

Sigh. So I fell off on my commute in to work today. again.

On the plus side:

• I'm getting pretty darned proficient at road rash treatment and


• it only happened 2 miles from home... rather than 15 miles like last time.


• was a slow one

On the minus side:

• it's starting to get a little tedious.


• have discovered my new altura kinetic gloves provide lousy palm protection.

Unlike the previous incidents, however, I just can't work out what happened. The road was dry. Ok it was a 90 degree right hander but I had slowed down. Braked before the corner. Turned in, road clear so was taking the corner quite fast and was leaned over, bit of a bump mid corner, but nothing too spectacular... and whooshy... if I'm not mistaken it was the front wheel that started slipping out from underneath and down I thud rather too heavily. b*****s.

Lack of grip down the side of the tyres? Deficit of talent? Time to experiment with the tyre pressures? Fix stabilisers? Stop cornering? Wear elbow pads?

Naturally, since I have no idea what went wrong I'm rather worried it'll happen again until I figure it out.

[Marky Mark]

Stop your windging and get back on your bike. Seriously, hope you're not hurt to bad and if you do find out why you keep falling off, please let me know because I don't want to

Have you tried Snow Chains???????

Marky Mark

[quote="Marky Mark"]Stop your windging and get back on your bike.

[Andrew G]

Are you trying to absorb averyone elses crashes? Sorry you've gone down again, but at least once you've finished with this you should have had your fair share for a few years.

Hope you are okay and not hurt.

From what you say it just sounds as though the bump mid corner lifted the front wheel for a split second, if you were banked over a reasonable amount when this happened it could be that the bump effectively tipped the front wheel a bit more sideways so that when it made contact with the tarmac was too far over and the tyre couldn't bite in time, not a lot of weight over it so could easily happen. Similar to hitting a gravel patch or ice which would shoot the front wheel out from under you.

It could easily just be one of things and not anything you're doing wrong, just unfortunate that it's happened so soon after your last accident. As Jon said before look where you want to go, and a reasonable distance in front of you. That way you should be in a better position to smoothly avoid bumps, potholes etc.

For what it's worth I always have a bit less pressure in the front tyre as there is less weight on it. In dry weather I normally go for 110psi rear and 100psi front. If it's wet or might be icy then I'll drop each one 5-10 psi to try and give a slightly bigger footprint without killing the performance of them. If it's really hot I 'll drop the pressure a touch too to avoid any blow-outs.

[-Adam-]

[quote="Andrew G"]110psi rear and 100psi front.

[Amy]

How about stabilisers? Or a trike (though you may have problems going round corners at first - I understand it's a special knack)

[Ivor]

[quote="Amy"]How about stabilisers? Or a trike

[Andrew G]

[img]http://www.prodigalchild.net/TrikeCornering.gif[/img]

My logic Adam (misguided or otherwise) is that with nearly all your weight over the rear tyre it is "squashed" to a greater extent than the front, so I opt for a bit more pressure to achieve approximately the same contact front and rear (easy ). Like I say my belief may be misguided, there is a logic in there, just necessarily the right one .

Ivor - On the subject of Paddington Bear Obree used marmalade snadwiches as a staple of his training diet and scoffed a round just before his hour record, s always keep some under your hat.

[Ben]

Are both your wheels true ?
Is there any play in the wheel bearings ?
Checked your weight distribution ?

[quote="orv"][quote="Amy"]How about stabilisers? Or a trike

[Will]

Were you braking while cornering? Although if you were that would (I think) more likely mean that the rear wheel would slip out.

It's odd that the front wheel went down... To me that suggests the kind of overly dramatic steering that people don't really do...

Maybe you need more weight over the front?

So to sum up: I have no useful comments to make (although hope you're ok)

[quote="Ben"]Are both your wheels true ?

[quote="orv"]well it's a 90 degree right hand bend, so it does need a bit!

[Amy]

Seriously - which leg was down? To ensure smooth cornering you need to have the outside leg down otherwise things can become a bit unstable (Also stops the pedal from grounding on the inside)

[quote="orv"][quote="Will"]Maybe you need more weight over the front?