Tumble or Slide?

[TLRulz]

I slid about 100 meters and then I bounced off a powerpole about another 5 meters and down a bank. It didn't hurt much at the time but I was in hospital for a while.

I was wearing jeans and a leather jacket. Not much gravel rash from jeans, only a little on knee. Jacket was good too, it did ride up me a bit and got some gravel rash on my side, but only small.

[Bartman10]

On the race bike I slid, low side both times.

On the road bike I slid once, and tubled twice. Once with fairly serious consequences.

Read all about it on KB!

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=9271

[Oscar]

Sliding?
Bit of tumbling.
I managed to head butt a pine tree once - out cold fer 10 minutes - no memory of it and a busted C3 for my troubles.

Racing enduro or hare scrambles, the crashes are many and varied, from "ground sky ground sky ground sky....thump!" , to simple loss of traction low sides. I can't recall one that involved sliding though...I did hit an electric fence once, and every time I went to drag the bike away I got a shock.

[thealmightytaco]

Havent binned the bike yet, but I managed to bin the go-kart when I raced back in the day.

Guy tried to pass me on the inside, only just got his front wheel in front of my back wheel and I had no idea till I'd turned in on him. Next thing I was seein' asphalt then blue then asphalt then blue, ended up lying seated quite comfortably against the bank on the outside of the corner, not a scratch other than a slightly bruised knee. The kart joined me a few seconds later, landed about 5 metres away, it'd gone much higher than I did.

No way to really slide a go-kart, in terms of binning that is.

[Macktheknife]

I have had a few bins over the years, most recent one was the worst. I have done both sliding and tumbling exits at different speeds and found for clear ground and such the slide works well as you can have some good slow down that way. The tumble does have its uses though and if you know how to do it well it can save you a lot of pain and broken bits, especially on uneven ground or when sliding has failed! It pays to practice on wrestling mats or similar first though.