Booboos
Well-Known Member
Thought most of you would miss the point. Of course I fall off as much as anyone else,(possibly more)But I dont kid myself that a body protector will achieve much . If anything ,they give people a false sense of security. Rather like when they started fitting ABS to cars, surely better anti skid braking must make driving safer. Well NO! people just took greater risks. There was absolutely no improvement .And Cobrastyle ,if I fall off I know damn well that I have faild to do somthing correctly. So yes it is a failure of riding skills. What do you do? Just land in a heap in your BP and wonder how that happend?
I doubt that extends to riding: Safety features in cars make people more confident so they are more likely to take risks such as speeding because they expect the car to compensate. If safety features make riders more confident then they become better riders and less of the kind of 'passengers' you worry about. I don't think anyone who wears a BP thinks it improves their riding skills so that they are less likely to fall off, rather they may feel less worried about the effects of falling off which would make them less worried about falling off and therefore more likely to be active in their riding.