In aus.bicycle on 26 Apr 2007 15:13:33 -0700
Bleve wrote:

Sure does, but also her fault. She went faster than she could safely
handle under the conditions. All she needed to do was use her brakes
on the descent to keep her speed down (assuming no brake failure
occurred)

The key seems to have been the sun in eyes. That should have been a
pointer to slow down.

But the idea that the road ahead is the same as the road right here is
a common cause of crashes. The idea of a bike path suddenly veering
because of an obstacle, or maybe worse not veering, is admittedly not
sensible and so perhaps not predictable to an inexperienced cyclist used
to car-based road design, but then as the "Cycling Facility of the Month"
pages show, it's distressingly common.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.me...onth/index.htm


Zebee