Dramatic video reveals full extent of Tour de France stage 3 crash

balmybaldwin wrote:

He did faff with the helmet, but later he put 2 helmets back in the team car (including the one he was trying to fix. presumably the other car provided replacements

did strike me as odd the way he was seemingly running about with bikes from one car to another (I'm guessing making sure good bikes were on the inside and readily available, but it didn't look like that - just a shuffling exercise with £10K bikes

A guess from other similar cases, different riders and different bikes, you want the bikes for key riders in the right place at the right time, in this case you have just lost a rider so to be blunt you do not want his spares in the way of spares for the riders still in the race. Get his bike off car 1 and onto car 2 get the bikes that were for lesser riders that were on car 2 onto car 1.

MercuryOne wrote:

Hang on? Where's the numpties with "There's no need for helmets at all." quoting their extensive scientific reports that turn out to be from a lab at the University of Wishful Thinking.

This is relevant, except the first part:

MercuryOne wrote:

Hang on? Where's the numpties with "There's no need for helmets at all." quoting their extensive scientific reports that turn out to be from a lab at the University of Wishful Thinking.

Hang on; you're so desperate to have yet another helmet debate that you're annoyed enough to insult people because you don't like the stuff you've imagined they'll say?

If mental gymnastics was in the Olympics, you'd be in the medals for sure...

MercuryOne wrote:

Hang on? Where's the numpties with "There's no need for helmets at all." quoting their extensive scientific reports that turn out to be from a lab at the University of Wishful Thinking.

Yeah, because every cyclist is out there doing 50+ km/h in dense pelotons. No cyclists at all toodling along at the same speed as runners, or less. Oh no.

In other news, the world is either black or white.

Paul J wrote:

MercuryOne wrote:

Hang on? Where's the numpties with "There's no need for helmets at all." quoting their extensive scientific reports that turn out to be from a lab at the University of Wishful Thinking.

Yeah, because every cyclist is out there doing 50+ km/h in dense pelotons. No cyclists at all toodling along at the same speed as runners, or less. Oh no.

In other news, the world is either black or white.

Biggest crash I've had was at walking speed in a car park - only time I've ended up being checked in hospital after coming off a bike. Speed is almost irrelevant when it comes whether you should wear a helmet or not, as hitting the corner bit of a kerb or similar with your head at walking speed could be easily as bad as hitting your head against the tarmac or similar at 50 mph.

Must be Mad wrote:

If a helmet needs fixing - it really should be replaced.

if a helmet needs fixing and the rider is wandering around apparently dazed, they should be withdrawn immediately from the event. As last night's Velocast was discussing, concussion is being taken seriously by other sports- cycling currently plays it lip service with mandatory plastic hats.

Must be Mad wrote:

If a helmet needs fixing - it really should be replaced.

In the heat of the moment, I doubt popping back to the car for a new helmet was the first thing in the bloke's mind.