Very, very, very nearly crashed the fancy bike this afternoon. First sprint of a HIIT session and I'm out of the saddle applying maximum torque, on the big chainring and the smallest sprocket (13t), when a bump in the road must have bounced the chain off.
Very, very scary, falling forward and belting my Cinelli 65 handlebars with my left knee. The sudden large-scale weight transfer, and big blow to the handlebars, caused the rear wheel to lift and the bike to turn right sharply at a GPS verified speed of 22.3mph.
I don't know how I didn't go over the handlebars, which is the normal outcome in cases like this, or crash the bike due to over-compensation. Someone, somewhere obviously likes me ..
Just to show what normally happens in cases like this, below is a clip of the late, great, Laurent Fignon having a similar incident in the 1982 Blois-Chaville race, which he was leading at the time. Note to Graham: this is the moment I stopped buying Campagnolo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeNU2HM6iOY