others near her can sense her difficulty and realize the possible danger to themselves , but given the sheer mass and unrelenting pace of the procession they dare not take their attention away from the riders directly in front of them , and so the predictable comes to pass ; in the jerky and seemingly out-of-synch style of an early silent movie the woman and her bike go down , hitting the wheels of the machine on her right , whose owner has edged over as far to his right as possible , and the subsequent accordian effect is devastating , each rider on the womans right going down in a slightly different way and with a slightly different last-second attempt to stave off the inevitable .