My experience is on recumbent bikes where you’re not falling far and not going over the handlebars. I think the most skin I have abraded was in a 50kph crash on concrete and grass where about a 2cm circle of the skin over the thumb mound of my left palm was gone. That would have been prevented by gloves
It got too easy to ride, also I don’t trust carbon composites to last a long time in Australian sunlight, so I also now have a steel (CrMo) shockproof 559
I reckon if the sports organisations required pro cyclists to wear protective gear it’ll be more common for amateurs to also use PPE and make that stuff easier to get
@psud @snekerpimp honestly the gravel rash you can get at 40kmph is pretty significant, and hills to get that much speed aren’t weird.
My experience is on recumbent bikes where you’re not falling far and not going over the handlebars. I think the most skin I have abraded was in a 50kph crash on concrete and grass where about a 2cm circle of the skin over the thumb mound of my left palm was gone. That would have been prevented by gloves
@psud I really should try a recumbent bike one day, I enjoyed my trike but the bikes always scared me. But I should give one a try.
It took a few hours on a grassy hill to learn to balance it
My fast bike is an M5 carbon high racer
It got too easy to ride, also I don’t trust carbon composites to last a long time in Australian sunlight, so I also now have a steel (CrMo) shockproof 559
@psud I got enough skin taken off my knee at 20kmph to make dancing at my wedding 6 weeks later sketchy.
Although that was gravel.
I reckon if the sports organisations required pro cyclists to wear protective gear it’ll be more common for amateurs to also use PPE and make that stuff easier to get