Quote Originally Posted by happysurfer View Post
.... It was all in slow motion. I remember the LBS guy telling me to fall on my shoulder (which I tried but my palm got in the way...
This is a good way to hurt your hand/wrist/collar bone. Sometimes things happen very fast but I try to remember to keep hold of the bars when I fall - this allows our sides to take the brunt of the fall and that is a lot stronger than those little bones in the wrist/palm and so forth. That being said, hopefully this won't happen very often, especially for road riding

I broke my wrist once by trying to break a fall - it had nothing to do with the bike - just something that happened once...which helps me to remember