2023 European Championships **spoilers**

pblakeney

I find Google helps.

"“I did an interval, ahead of my team-mates, I look ahead and there’s nothing,” he said.

“There’s a car behind me that’s escorting me. I keep doing my interval and I remember that I was going 58 kilometres per hour. That is like throwing down and the wind is in your favour. I was going 58. I start looking and it was 59, 60, 61, 62, and it was when I saw that speed that I crashed into the bus.

“I crashed into the bus at 62 kilometres per hour. The bus was still. At that moment, imagine the pain.”

He was looking at his head unit. So not a helmet issue but a stupidity issue.

DeVlaeminck

Testers have been crashing into parked vehicles forever even pre time trial bars. I imagine it's really difficult to actually police if a rider is able to look forward and doing so at all times.

Pross

No_Ta_Doctor said:

rick_chasey said:

No_Ta_Doctor said:

rick_chasey said:

UCI needs to re-evaluate the TT position to prevent testers to be tempted to hide their head from the wind in such a way that they can't see where they're going.

Do they really? How often does it actually cause a crash? I don't have a list of incidents in my memory here

Froome was saying it a while back, and it seems that's what happened here.

Oh I'm definitely in favour of looking where you're going, I'm just wondering if it's actually common to be so head down that you don't see what's coming up and crash. If Bernal was really doing this on an open road in training.... FFS that's nuts

An old clubmate of mine who was a GB international and ridden in the junior worlds was terrible for this. He caught me on a time trial and rode straight into the back of me giving me my first trip in an ambulance and rode straight into the back of a parked van at about 30mph on a club chain gang (luckily he hit it in the centre of the doors so whilst he got quite a bad neck injury it could have been far worse).

r0bh

Wasn't there a renowned time trialist of yore who rode into the back of a parked car, went through the back window, got back out of the car and cracked on with his ride?

As the CTT say - heads up, accidents down

rick_chasey

Kung did something similar on the track IIRC too - just ran into the back of someone.





These guys are literal pros - if they're riding into very avoidable barriers than they're obviously compromising their vision.

DeVlaeminck

I know a woman tbat got a ban from the rttc (?) for riding into the back of a car during an event.

In terms of deterrent I always thought it was a bit pointless.

rick_chasey

https://twitter.com/TimBonvilleGinn/status/1704515056543662083

shirley_basso

I thought in GB events you get in trouble if they catch you looking down?

I've hit 2 parked cars (slowly) but one of the forumrites, Undercover Elephant (I think) - he hit a parked car and was paralysed. He managed to get a metal exo-skeleton fitted to walk his daughted down the aisle when she got married.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpxPRThTep4&ab_channel=BBCNews

daniel_b

rick_chasey said:

https://twitter.com/TimBonvilleGinn/status/1704515056543662083

It's odd in that clip isn't it that it doesn't appear that his helmets hit the ground or anything much - I appreciate the camera pans away before he stops, but by then it looks like most of his speed has dissipated.

webboo

It might be that he catches his helmet on the barrier before he hits the ground.

kingstongraham

I think the only part of him that hits the barrier before he's sliding along the floor is his head. Looks like he sees it at the last instant, way too late, tries to change direction and loses control.

flite

Didn't an entire team (Danish?) ram into the back of Charlie Tanfield in a team pursuit? And then rant at him for being in the way?
Obviously more acceptable to ride head down on the track than public roads.