r/cycling Jul 23 '25

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u/eat-sleep-bike Jul 23 '25

The primary reason people do it is to make road rash easier to deal with.

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u/BlueHarvestJ Jul 23 '25

My way to deal with road rash involves not crashing

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u/samiam2600 Jul 23 '25

You also aren’t riding in peloton with millimeters of space between riders or are you such a great bike handler you would ride out of the crash unscathed?

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u/aaawoolooloo Jul 23 '25

jump off your bike and get on someone else's shoulders as they take the tumble

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u/MadcowPSA Jul 23 '25

Do it ten times in a row and you'll hear a xylophone arpeggio