As someone who's only big "off" was at speed, I can concur, high speed offs suck. I was very lucky, I was "on" that day and that may have helped, but also hindered, because I realised what was going to happen before it did and "braced for impact", i.e. tensed my entire body and hence, I suffered some serious issues from my muscles, but otherwise, body was all fine even though I got slammed back first into a small stand of trees, the hydration pack took the impact mostly - _hence why I pretty much never ride without one._
Conversely, while on a trip to CO, I did a side roll off a narrow bit of single track, on a slow tech climb, and the fall away wasn't vertical, but it was damn steep. I was lucky, realise what was going to happen and just held on to the bars tight as I knew there was nothing I could do to stop it, I say luckily because there happened to be a nice, young sapling growing right next to me and I sort of cushioned the roll and then I luckily got pinned in the chest by a fallen branch which stopped me rolling down the 150 of so feet to the bottom.
Nov. 28, 2024, 3:48 a.m. - Lynx .
As someone who's only big "off" was at speed, I can concur, high speed offs suck. I was very lucky, I was "on" that day and that may have helped, but also hindered, because I realised what was going to happen before it did and "braced for impact", i.e. tensed my entire body and hence, I suffered some serious issues from my muscles, but otherwise, body was all fine even though I got slammed back first into a small stand of trees, the hydration pack took the impact mostly - _hence why I pretty much never ride without one._ Conversely, while on a trip to CO, I did a side roll off a narrow bit of single track, on a slow tech climb, and the fall away wasn't vertical, but it was damn steep. I was lucky, realise what was going to happen and just held on to the bars tight as I knew there was nothing I could do to stop it, I say luckily because there happened to be a nice, young sapling growing right next to me and I sort of cushioned the roll and then I luckily got pinned in the chest by a fallen branch which stopped me rolling down the 150 of so feet to the bottom.