What scares you more, fall or a near miss?

[tod.branko_imp]

Possibly a "near miss" because after-the-fact you can evaluate what could have happened. The realization of what didn't happen can affect one for awhile. Everyone responds a little bit differently.

A "fall", as other have mentioned, leaves little time to think about it. "Okay, this is happening ... ", now one has to deal with the circumstances that occupy the mind.

I have the same feeling, if things happen so badly that cannot be saved, they happen so fast that there is no time to be scared. Near misses leave you in distress for a while

Tod, I understand your focus to be on riding situations (and not, say, getting lost or running out of fuel in the wild, or being mugged or nearly mugged on your bike), that your hypothesis is that percieved near misses are recalled as more scary than accidents, and that you'd like to collect data on that. If so, great and a very interesting question. While I've never had a real bike accident myself I've had tons of close calls on the road and on the track and I have seen friends and wife crash, at least six different occasions. I must say that although my own near misses as a rule created adrenaline rushes, I dont recall them as scaring me. Neither have they stayed in my mind. Instead, what really scared me was seeing others crash, before knowing if they were ok or not. Road crashes scared more than track crashes, perhaps not surprisingly. I also easily recall them vividly, even now decades later for some of them. And, as someone wrote, time slows down greatly. However what also scares me equally much or perhaps even more are other's near misses, e.g. seeing a buddy in front overtaking and almost running straight into an oncoming truck. These sometimes really have me shaking for a long time afterwards. But, again, being scared is for me associated with others and their , not with myself as I recall it. So, perhaps bad data but in a way I think my experience supports your idea, if I got that right.

I am open to any experiences people are willing to share, I'll figure out how to turn it in a chewable content people can learn something from. I immensely appreciate your input

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