Pro-cycling thread

The accepted protocol in professional cycling is that any vehicle that needs to stop on the race course, does so on the right hand side of the road. So he was on the wrong side to start with. I'm sure he had good reason to stop, as the race was splitting up at that point and each group on the road tends to have it's own police outrider ahead of it to ensure a safe passage, but it was a major error in judgement to stop where he did, especially if you look at the footage and notice a metre wide strip on the right hand side that's off the carriageway.

The fundamental issue for me is that this is not an isolated incident, there are far too many incidents where rider safety is compromised and that is unacceptable. In this Giro alone I can think of three or four incidents, e.g. the marshall stood in the road on Friday who had the peloton swarm either side of him, the finishing circuit on the same stage which was unacceptably dangerous, the poor marshalling on the Etna stage that was partially to blame for a crash at the front of the peloton, that turn with 3.2 kms to go on the opening stage which narrowed suddenly and caused a crash, where rider safety was compromised by poor organisation. It needs to improve, and quickly.