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this is what i do in an emergency braking situation - stand on the pedals and lean back and down, and hammer the brakes as hard as I can

And then as the bicycle goes front-wheelie be ready to exit on one side of the bike and run it out.

The biggest damage anything took from three times I had to do this in the past 20 years was my bike (one time I had to exchange the handle bar).