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Cycle Drafting Fail
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Posted 13 years ago #
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Interesting, and ouch! Thing is, surely you don't sit on your aero bars when riding in a pack because your brake levers aren't handy, but it looks like it was the rider in front whose dart to the left came as a surprise to the following rider, whose own anticipation reaction time was very quick.
Edit: just watched it again with the sound on! Yikes!
Posted 13 years ago # -
Saw this a while back.
Amateur.
Never ride on the extensions in a bunch. HE's coasting with his hands as far from the brakes as its possible to put them. He doesn't need to be on them when he's draughting 2 other guys.
Never cross-over your front wheel with someone's rear - because when he moves across, you'll get a QR cam in your spokes. When riding in a group, as a team, you are responsible for watching the man in front, not behind. You keep right behind and can go en echelon if you need to , but your front wheel never overlaps his rear wheel. Lesson 1 of riding in a group (lesson 2 is always have your hands on or near the brakes)
And it's never 34mph. Front rider appears to be on the small ring.
He does kinda well to hold it together then for whatever reason pulls into the gravel, which flips him!
Muppet.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Looks almost as though he has buckled his front wheel which he then can't control, in the slo-mo it almost looked like his front jammed/locked, can't see what in the surface would cause him to go over the bars like that.
Agreed it's pretty slow. If they were over 30mph it would have all happened a heck of a lot faster!Posted 13 years ago # -
I think if you read far down in the comments the original poster explains that you can hear the noise of his spokes going as they contact the left hand side of bike infront (QR cam most likely), causing wheel to buckle and set up the shimmy. Perhaps as he slows on the rough stuff the wheel proper pancakes and bike flips over around it.
Posted 13 years ago # -
The wheel fails, I was extremely impressed that he held it together as long as that.
The only explanation I can think of for the sudden fall is that he braked on reaching safe terrain and the wheel, without sufficient support, does something nasty and unexpected. Otherwise it's hard to account for riding across the verge with no trouble, then binning it on the harder surface...
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