Sunday OD Hyde park bike leg BIG crash!!
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As I came to the end of my 3rd run lap I saw a guy dressed in black silver aero helmet on a black full TT bike clip the inside bale on the right left part of the course (just before the bridge) on his return leg.
He did a full forward somersault and parted from the bike in mid air. The bike crashed down bounced two or three times just missing the photographer on that corner. The front wheel separated from the bike and bounced off to the other side of the course.
As I looked across he was up and running to (the biggest bit of) his bike but I wondered if its anyone who comes on here or anyone has heard anything on another forum.
If it is tell him I'd give him 5.9 overall....n hundred quid for whats left of his bike
He did a full forward somersault and parted from the bike in mid air. The bike crashed down bounced two or three times just missing the photographer on that corner. The front wheel separated from the bike and bounced off to the other side of the course.
As I looked across he was up and running to (the biggest bit of) his bike but I wondered if its anyone who comes on here or anyone has heard anything on another forum.
If it is tell him I'd give him 5.9 overall....n hundred quid for whats left of his bike
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I was on the bike leg about 10am and there were 4 big crashes during that time.
I saw one guy, 20 yards in front of me, go straight on into the barriers at the middle dead turn and go over the top. I saw a couple more wounded along the way and had to shout for marshals and medics.
The prize goes to the idiot that I overtook, who then decided he'd get a free tow, only to then ride into the back of me 5 minutes later, putting himself into the steel barriers in the process.
Seriously don't know what the deal was out there. Slippy roads? Maybe it got better in the afternoon.
One thing that was obvious was very few people knew about apexing and racing lines. A lot of riders were hugging the inside of corners and their momentum was throwing them out wide on the exit.....no problem as a wide entry and a check over the inside shoulder had me underneath em and back in the tuck!
The return straight was downhill and a full on top gear pump each lap and enjoyable. I was out about from 1135am (Tata wave) n other than a few punctures and "The Stuntman" did nt see as much action as you did.
Lots of blood and road rash, hope everyone was ok.
Were there many more people doing it this year? I guess that may account for some of it and if the roads were wet with carbon wheels you don't tend to stop, or really slow at all. Perhaps people havent trained on their race wheels to work out how they stop ompared to how the training wheels do
I reckon a lot of people (would it be unfair to say novices?) see the bike leg as an oportunity to "gain time".
I,m doing Excel next weekend n theres more than a couple doing that but it is a wider course. Crash vultures make your way to the hairpins rather then the usual gloating at the bike mount point as people set of clipped in with too high a gear.