Pro-cycling thread

That poor Dygert.... What a horrific crash, once again. Is it me or are there more of these horror injuries the past years with these pro riders? I read that she was riding tubeless and the front went instantly flat, causing the wobble. I'm fuckin nautious seeing that

The guy who designed those cushions in that corners must feel like shit rn. I bet they will extend them for the mens itt.

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Designed? Someone just plonked them there and said that'll do. I highly doubt theres actually process or design.

I suspect they were put there for people who outbraked themselves going into the corner, not speed wobbles coming out of it. Short of putting up padding over the entire course, there's only so much they can do.

put the cushions round the riders imo

is this aero

Needs trip strips.

Reminds me of that @xavierdisley photo :)

Well for sure. But they didnt exactly sit down with a calculator and work out potential trajectories.

I suspect you're right. However, 9 times out of 10, I suspect the padding would've been in the correct place. Trouble is, I suspect this was the 10th out of 10 situation...

tubeless

Andreas Klier spoke about researching tubeless being faster for EF a while ago.

The crash wouldn’t have happened with tubulars?

I doubt very much it had anything to do with the tyres. Looked like a classic speed wobble to me - the rider's steering corrections are the same phase as the reactions from the bike. I've only ever had it in a straight line, thank fuck.

It looks like she misjudged the angle of the corner and was trying to take it in the extensions to me. I dont think her hands were on the basebars when she hit the bump or the tyre blew that bucked her off the saddle.

Well I managed to swerve the pictures of her leg injury until she tweeted them herself.

Yeah - same. I always try and avoid pictures/footage of injuries and crashes.

IANAD but I’m sure there should be some tendon in that gaping chasm above her knee.

I was about to say the same thing . Not nice with your breakfast.

Yet other teams are abandoning it because it's dangerous.

The only info I've seen shows latex tubes being faster.

Tubeless is for MTB, gravel (and even then I wasn't sure) not Road. Been saying that for ages.

Chad Hagan doing his best manspalining impression suggested it was over front breaking. Annoyingly I’d be inclined to agree.

They might be faster, but tubs are more probably stable when flat. Be that as it may, the crash might also have happened with a flat tub. But from my experience, tubeless is shit so I take the chance of bashing it every opportunity I get.

Do we actually know it was a flat? The twitter video says a bump in the road but honestly it looked like the tyre could have just slid a little and thrown off her balance. That picture she tweeted is grim, looks like the barrier tried to remove her knee cap.

Why hasn’t Inrng previewed the TT? Lazy.

He’s had half the year off.

not to mention, the first women's paris roubaix...

It looks like she was carrying too much speed into the corner, touched a brake and that caused the wobble. She may have punctured subsequently but I don’t think it was the root cause.