2010 Herne Hill Velodrome Track League

Just before this thread sparks a reputation, there have been two proper crashes in 10 weeks of track league. Compare that to Crystal Palace where there has been (rough guess) on average one crash per week, and recently a few crashes per week. Its bike racing, it happens. Its rare, but occasionally you might get involved.

Does anyone actually remember what caused the crash this week? So far I've not heard anything to suggest it was anything to do with anyone's inexperience. I think it was probably a lot more to do with people going from hanging on towards then end of a fast 30 laps race, to starting to think about their positioning and energy reserves for the last sprint of the race.

Guessing from what I saw and remember, it's probably from overlapping/touching wheels, and loosing control. it happened towards front of the bunch, and there were no riders bunching up, fairly steady straight pace line out of turn 2. the guy in front of me fell off and I rode straight into him. mike and Euan followed.