Hmmm, sorry for both your crashes, I hope you are on the mend.
The first sounds like a typical 'high side' crash, where the bike trips over the front wheel. Joseba Beloki's career-ending TdF crash is one of those.
The second is more like a series of over-corrections (it's easy to criticise from a chair, we've all done them and either crashed or headed off into the woods).
A true speed wobble (shimmy) is a shaking of the bars, cured generally by damping by putting your knee against the top tube. Heavy riders on bikes with light front wheels seem worse affected.
https://cyclingtips.com/2020/07/bicycle-speed-wobbles-how-they-start-and-how-to-stop-them/
The first sounds like a typical 'high side' crash, where the bike trips over the front wheel. Joseba Beloki's career-ending TdF crash is one of those.
The second is more like a series of over-corrections (it's easy to criticise from a chair, we've all done them and either crashed or headed off into the woods).
A true speed wobble (shimmy) is a shaking of the bars, cured generally by damping by putting your knee against the top tube. Heavy riders on bikes with light front wheels seem worse affected.
https://cyclingtips.com/2020/07/bicycle-speed-wobbles-how-they-start-and-how-to-stop-them/
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