I don't think they're saying he slammed on the brakes and went over the handle bars. I think he picked the mouse up in the front wheel, the mouse caught in the fork, stopping the bike cold, and THAT pitched the poor man over the handlebars. Don't know what the mouse looked like that made it obviously "freshly dead." I can't see a mouse doing that however. A squirrel...maybe. But, geez, a mouse is tiny. I got pitched over the handlebars once by a stick that did just what I described. The stick was about as big as a magic marker.
Of course, all of this doesn't alter the tragic events. And worse, it will have helmet naysayers saying "See???? Helmets don't always help!"
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11-14-2006, 02:00 PM #1
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11-14-2006, 02:03 PM #2
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You can be sure that there will be a thorough investigation. We might not hear about it and the news might not either. but there is all sorts of insurance stuff that will require an investigation.
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11-15-2006, 03:40 AM #3
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I think Regina's explanation is right! My husband hit a squirrel a few years ago, on a descent. It broke his carbon fork (on one side, only, thankfully) and sent him flying. He did NOT try to avoid it, as he saw it would be useless. He only had road rash, etc, but the bike was a wreck.
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