How many doctor visits have you had?

[PCeBiker]

Another one who thinks it's better to learn how to crash... then it is to learn how not to crash.... smh.....

I'm all about not crashing now, but learning how to not crash requires me to practice emergency braking and testing the limits to see where they are.

I've got no problem dropping my e-bike at slow speed and I wanted to skid my front wheel to get a feel for it.
I locked up my front wheel at about 10 mph and managed to skid it on gravel a few times until I fell over.

I found out that I always seem to fall to the left, and once I started to fall, I couldn't let go of the brake because I was starting to go down and had to hold on.

Getting a feel for "falling over" lets me know how fast it falls and how heavy it starts to feel.

Building up my slow speed reflexes helps me to avoid a real crash.


I had a pickup truck purposely blow a stop sign and cut me off.
I managed to lock up my rear wheel, and I think I skidded the front wheel too, but my reflexes knew that I had to modulate the front front brake and not lock it up.


Then I swapped my left and right brake levers to make it like a motorcycle, so I had to practice emergency braking to retrain my brain.
I hammered my brakes over and over, locking the left brake lever, while modulating the right lever.

I still don't know what's gunna happen if I have to do a real emergency stop.