How often do you crash? I'm not talking fireballs and major wreckage, just sort of flopping over...mountain bike style, I guess. I've hit the ground twice in the last week, three times in the last two months. Once I got hit by a truck (there's a thread, not worth recounting); once I hit some sealed blacktop while turning into a p-lot, and spilled to one side; and today, I was sprinting with a friend - or thought I was, at least - touched his wheel, and fell over. Off-the-line track workouts, so I was only going about 8 mph this time, too.
I haven't gotten anything worse than a little road-rash and some bruises, but the worst part is my ego! I come from a mountain biking background, and went for five years on the road without even a minor crash. I had a lot of mtb crashes in that time, but that's par for the course. I'm a good bike-handler, but keeping having stupid spills. Never in a race, never on a wild-n-crazy descent. I feel like I've got some fine-motor-skill degeneration. I just keep falling over. (OK, twice - but that's still WAY too much for a road bike.) My bike (two-month-old Dean) looks like crap, but I've stopped caring about it. What's the deal? Anyone else have this problem?
I haven't gotten anything worse than a little road-rash and some bruises, but the worst part is my ego! I come from a mountain biking background, and went for five years on the road without even a minor crash. I had a lot of mtb crashes in that time, but that's par for the course. I'm a good bike-handler, but keeping having stupid spills. Never in a race, never on a wild-n-crazy descent. I feel like I've got some fine-motor-skill degeneration. I just keep falling over. (OK, twice - but that's still WAY too much for a road bike.) My bike (two-month-old Dean) looks like crap, but I've stopped caring about it. What's the deal? Anyone else have this problem?