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Kind of ... no, not really. Walking at 2mph with both feet on the ground, very different from balanced on a frame of pipework rolling at 5mph. Much more likely to 'land on your feet' when walking.


Parent poster wrote 5 km/h which is really the speed of most walkers not 5 mph. I'm sure that if you get hit by a car that's going fast enough it won't really matter if you have a bike, a skateboard, or just the soles of your shoes…


Yeah but you don't have to hit a car to take a dive on your bike. Just stopping at a light you can go over.




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