Actually, I think the crashes on the TDF are the best part. Not, I must add, because I'm some kind of sadist, but because I'm continually amazed at the way they nearly always get up and carry on riding. I've only ever come off at low speed (or at zero mph, trying to unclip) and it still really, really hurts. So I see a pile up on TV and I'm thinking "oh no, 35mph, bikes flying all over the place, that looks nasty, everyone must be dead," and in no time they're back on their bikes, haring off at top speed to catch up with the bunch. Thirty seconds later they're back in there. Truly astonishing.
Don't think Cancellara and T Martin would agree with you oblong bloke.
I can see your point, but remember that mass pile up that finished Cancellara's race? How many would you have said would get back on their bike? I'd have said none. And even Tony Martin, with his badly busted collar bone, which must have hurt like hell, rolled over the line on his bike, so he could finish the stage in yellow.
They're tough, those pros. A lot tougher than John Wayne.
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Might have guessed you would turn up just to grind my gonads.
Actually, I think the crashes on the TDF are the best part. Not, I must add, because I'm some kind of sadist, but because I'm continually amazed at the way they nearly always get up and carry on riding. I've only ever come off at low speed (or at zero mph, trying to unclip) and it still really, really hurts. So I see a pile up on TV and I'm thinking "oh no, 35mph, bikes flying all over the place, that looks nasty, everyone must be dead," and in no time they're back on their bikes, haring off at top speed to catch up with the bunch. Thirty seconds later they're back in there. Truly astonishing.
I can see your point, but remember that mass pile up that finished Cancellara's race? How many would you have said would get back on their bike? I'd have said none. And even Tony Martin, with his badly busted collar bone, which must have hurt like hell, rolled over the line on his bike, so he could finish the stage in yellow.
They're tough, those pros. A lot tougher than John Wayne.
[pedant] He doesn't do anything any more, he's dead.[/pedant]