A very lucky escape at the Tour de Beauce (Canada)

PeteinSQ
PeteinSQ Posts: 2,292
edited June 2010 in Pro race
Watch as someone nearly gets flattened by the entire peloton in the final sprint...

http://theinnerring.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... shave.html
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Blimey! And she's not even Chinese!
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  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    stupid woman
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    People are sooooo stupid !
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Me again,

    I think that there is a perception amongst some pedestrians that a bike traveling at 50kph won't hurt if it hits you. Or that the rider will bottle out, brake or swerve. It's very common here for people to walk across junctions when the lights are on green for traffic but there are no motor vehicles, just me. I get the feeling they think, "Oh, it's just a cyclist".

    Maybe some sort of road safety film of bicycles hitting inattentive morons is required...
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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    A lot of people just don't realise how fast a bike can go, hence the reason that you get so may people pulling out in front of you, they don't realise that even an overweight weekend warrior like me can be doing 25mph+ on the flat on his way to work.
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    nah she was a good judge of speed and distance thats all..little extra spurt at the end for a bit of margin... :lol:
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Those Canadians clearly aren't good enough. Cavendish would have managed to hit her, no matter how fast she moved.
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  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    RichN95 wrote:
    Those Canadians clearly aren't good enough. Cavendish would have managed to hit her, no matter how fast she moved.
    :lol:

    And gobbed on her while she lay writhing on the ground for good measure. You can't buy class.