this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2025
105 points (97.3% liked)
Bicycling
2800 readers
71 users here now
A community for those who enjoy bicycling for any reason— utility, recreation, sport, or whatever!
Post your questions, experiences, knowledge, pictures, news, links, and (civil) rants.
Rules (to be added on an as-needed basis)
- Comments and posts should be respectful and productive.
- No ads or commercial spam, including linking to your own monetized content.
- Linked content should be as unburdened by ads and trackers as possible.
Welcome!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
@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