Crashes on Ranmore Common this morning

skinnypunter

Does anyone on here know if either of the cyclists who had had accidents on Ranmore Common Road this morning are OK?

Best wishes to both of them.

iPete

Had a quick look on my club forum and there you have it..
One rider is "scraped and bruised" and the other "cracked his hip" and was still in the St Georges fracture unit this afternoon.

Sound like someones handlebar sheared off! :shock:

skinnypunter

Thanks for update. The guy we saw at junction of Ranmore Common Road & Critten Lane was in a bad way - "scraped and bruised" sounds like a painful euphemism!

kingstonian

It happened on a club newbie ride.

I know one of the newbies in the group, she wasn't injured in the crash but was a bit shaken by seeing it all when I saw her a few hours later.

tehtehteh

when I saw the title of this thread I thought of the horrible bit of spilt concrete or something similar along the fast stretch as it goes downhill into dorking, leaving a bump in the road right on a corner, I always think this is going to catch someone out one day, it's been there for years and not been cleaned up

handlebar snapping? very scary

ben@31

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19702448#p19702448]iPete[/url] wrote:

Sound like someones handlebar sheared off! :shock:

How can this happen? Never heard of it before. Even if the stem and bars were carbon fibre, I'd imagine the manufacturer would make use enough material (thickness) for strength. Coincidentally, the other day I was watching a GCN video on one of Cav's bikes, it said he used a thicker more beefy stem. I think it was this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTkbXz2eBvw


I can only guess the carbon bars sheared after an impact with the floor.

philbar72

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19702448#p19702448]iPete[/url] wrote:

Had a quick look on my club forum and there you have it..
One rider is "scraped and bruised" and the other "cracked his hip" and was still in the St Georges fracture unit this afternoon.

Sound like someones handlebar sheared off! :shock:

seperate crash Pete. someone had head injuries, from what i've read. EDIT I don't beleive the head injury was a group of KW. it was apparently quite serious.

dottigirl

Yep, there were two crashes.

The cracked hip was 'a cracked iliac wing'. He was unlucky to be the rider in front of the guy who lost his steerer - it was actually the steerer shearing, not the bars. A clean cut under the stem. At speed, he was out of control and went piling into the back of the other guy.

[a friend] actually saw it happen and from what I understand it snapped and he was out of control for a few seconds holding his detached handlebars at speed.

I can't begin to imaging how terrifying that must have been!

I can. :shock:


Does anyone know how your brakes would behave in those circumstances? Not at all?

homers_double

In theory they should still work as the lever pulls the inner through the outer which is fixed at points along the frame.

However having the ability to hold the bars and brake under those circumstances would take some doing.

dottigirl

The head injury definitely wasn't the KW ride - that was the one at the crossroads.

The KW steerer snap accident was further along Ranmore.

There was an event on (Palace to Palace?) - not sure if the head injury was one of their participants. However, it meant the Red Cross were apparently on scene to help.

DeVlaeminck

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19703508#p19703508]ben@31[/url] wrote:

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19702448#p19702448]iPete[/url] wrote:

Sound like someones handlebar sheared off! :shock:

How can this happen? Never heard of it before. Even if the stem and bars were carbon fibre, I'd imagine the manufacturer would make use enough material (thickness) for strength. Coincidentally, the other day I was watching a GCN video on one of Cav's bikes, it said he used a thicker more beefy stem. I think it was this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTkbXz2eBvw


I can only guess the carbon bars sheared after an impact with the floor.

Seen it happen twice both times with alloy bars. One was an old Mavic base bar on a TT bike (I remember because I'd given him the bar!) and the other was normal drops.

cyclingsheep

It can happen to the best riders
http://youtu.be/UZg1vrvGbdE