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@Professor_Tim
I haven't had any major stacks since I was a kid. But the I don't ride like a psycho turbo nutter bastard with flames coming out of his arse either. I've dropped the bike a couple of times as an adult but came out without much of a scratch really. The funniest of the two was depths of winter couple of years ago, aiming to stop at the Chinese near my mate's house on the way to the station, so I could chom some dinner on the train. Looking around for where he's told me the shop is - look left, right, left, scanning the dark street intently. Suddnly, I see it! Slap on both brakes and there's either oil or ice on the road because the bike locks up, no scraping skid noise, just both wheels decide to move independently of me and the bike calmly turns sideways like I'm on glass before I can let go of the brakes (or maybe I froze a bit!). And then the tyres suddenly decide to bite whilst I'm almost sideways and the bike stopped dead pitching me straight off (but not at massive speed). I landed on my hands and rolled, then slid to a halt on my back. I do remember seeing the bike cartwheel over my head as I was on my back and that was that. No real damage, thanks to having gloves and helmet looking after me as I hit the floor. Wouldn't have been major damage without a lid though I don't think (I have a pretty thick skull) but better to have no headache at all I reckon. The waterproof over-jacket did a lot of the sliding for me too, it got a minor tear. Apart from that, scott-free. The worst bit was seeing the bumber of a 4x4 heading towards me as I was on the floor, worrying it hadn't seen me.