fiamme red
12-01-2010, 01:40 PM
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http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/bike-injuires-vs-running-injuries/?apage=3#comment-604507
I am not a bike racer, but years ago I did tag along on a coaching session given by ex-Olympian John Allis to a new rider (my then wife) as a mandatory precondition of her joining a group riding out of Wheelworks in Belmont, MA. In that one two-hour session, Allis introduced and practiced with us techniques that work to avoid crashes during contact. A couple of key moves, initially counterintuitive but after first practice emphatically intuitive and ingrained into kinesthetic memory, can prevent crashing in situations like contact with the wheel ahead of you (steer hard into the wheel to remain upright), or rider swerving into you (contact the swerving rider shoulder to shoulder or elbow to elbow and lean hard into them).
I have used both techniques to good effect, once in a crowded pack halfway into a century ride that could have resulted in a massively multirider crash. Although these techniques work best when all riders involved know them, as in a pack of skilled racers, they also work with riders who don’t know them.
I have also watched helplessly as intelligent, fit people crash needlessly for want of this simple training. I count myself as lucky for having been married to someone who was required to take the training.
— DavidM
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/bike-injuires-vs-running-injuries/?apage=3#comment-604507
I am not a bike racer, but years ago I did tag along on a coaching session given by ex-Olympian John Allis to a new rider (my then wife) as a mandatory precondition of her joining a group riding out of Wheelworks in Belmont, MA. In that one two-hour session, Allis introduced and practiced with us techniques that work to avoid crashes during contact. A couple of key moves, initially counterintuitive but after first practice emphatically intuitive and ingrained into kinesthetic memory, can prevent crashing in situations like contact with the wheel ahead of you (steer hard into the wheel to remain upright), or rider swerving into you (contact the swerving rider shoulder to shoulder or elbow to elbow and lean hard into them).
I have used both techniques to good effect, once in a crowded pack halfway into a century ride that could have resulted in a massively multirider crash. Although these techniques work best when all riders involved know them, as in a pack of skilled racers, they also work with riders who don’t know them.
I have also watched helplessly as intelligent, fit people crash needlessly for want of this simple training. I count myself as lucky for having been married to someone who was required to take the training.
— DavidM