Originally Posted by
Tulex
The person that you ran into was visible to you for at least 11 seconds out of the 47. From 11-16, 28-33, and at 41. It appears that you are not looking up the road as your camera does. You can say what you want. In each chunk of time that he is visible to the camera, he is closer. When the guy in green cuts in front of you, you are sticking right with him. It seems fairly clear to me that you guys ride blind as if nothing is going to happen.
The first two times he was visibile he was way up the road. The last time he was visible it was not obvious it was the same rider as earlier and from my perspective I couldn't tell his relative speed. When the guy in green cuts in front of me, if I hadn't moved over he would have run into me right then.
Originally Posted by
Mr. Beanz
My common sense would have told me that when the dudes started getting unorganized and passing on the left in chaos, I would have said this is not going well. But you stayed there for a reason, in a sit that you know was not good. I'm not sure why you think it takes more than half a brain and a powermeter to see a scray situation in the brewing. Too bad your powermeter doesn't have a gps type system to warn you when to backout!
I wasn't sprinting, the sprint was up the road. The safest thing to do is usually to just follow everyone else. Obviously this did not end well.
The
point is that many people made many bad decisions and they accumulated to a crash. To say I was the only one with any fault in that situation has no basis in reality. All the people
who were there have a different interpretation than those who are watching it on video after the fact.