which side do you favour?

[dudi]

I had a little tumble today, hit a patch of ice and collapsed. not much damage... but i am taking advantage of Giro's crash replacement policy.

I noticed however, than in the three falls I have had, i have landed on my left side every time. the falls were all very different, but each time my right side remained unscathed.

So far my left shoulder has suffered a broken collar bone, a torn ligament and a lot of road rash.

Just wondered if I was odd, or if others had a favourite side to damage on a fall?

 

[Aperitif]

I have done two Giro Atmos - one left, one head on. (Left hand side broken) I had no part in the decision making process either time. However, I bought replacements @ 50 squid each time...

 

[Chrisz]

Go left - save your rear mech

 

[Nicensleazy]

Get yourself well soon!

 

[fossyant]

Going left is the best way - as ChrisZ said......that was my first thought when picking myself off the road when that car hit me..."FFS new XT rear mech" - fortunately I had gone down on the left (in the end) !!!!

 

[buggi]

always seem to land on my knees when i fall over, and when i fell of my bike and broke my right collar bone, i also grazed the left side of my face and road burn (proper scarred i am ) on both my knees. Don't ask, i don't know how or which way i fell.

 

[beanzontoast]

Left in my case, but I think it's less to do with favouring the left side of the body and more to do with trying to end up nearer the kerb than the opposing traffic.

 

[Young Un]

Ussually fall off to the left. There has been only one exeption for me and that was when I fell of on the ice, but it was the camber of the road that caused me to fall onto the right.

Steve

 

[Steve Austin]

to the left

 

[Paulus]

To the right just to be different, but I didn't get a choice on two of them as I was broadsided by motor vehicles.

 

[girofan]

Hope you are not too bashed-up dudi?
When hit broadside by a car on a traffic island three years ago, I fell to the right, but as I flew through the air I saw my machine several feet above me!! So it didn't make any difference as when it landed it was f***ed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[vernon]

To the right just to be different, but I didn't get a choice on two of them as I was broadsided by motor vehicles.

Every off that I have had on a bike or motor bike has been to the left. Isn't it a survival instinct to steer fall to the left away from oncoming traffic? Doesn't the camber of the road have an effect.

The only time that I did come off on the flat was on a canal tow path and it definitely was in my interests to fall to the left as it was rather wet to the right.

Has anyone else noticed how the release of adrenalin as an 'off' develops leads to some pretty amazing slow motion effects?

 

[palinurus]

I go left. I've fallen off more frequently since I got my cross bike. Left everytime (and not so much as a bruise so far).

 

[Night Train]

I've only come off once as an adult.
Many years ago I was over taken by a bus on a sweeping bend. The bus tightened up on the bend and ran me into the kerb so I fell off/jumped off onto my left onto the pavement.

Too scaredy and risk averse to have come close to falling off since.

 

[bikie]

My tumbles tend to be on my left side too, but because of your position on the road do left turns not tend to be tighter than right turns then more chance of slipping on ice or gravel when leaning into the turn