Originally Posted by
Lazyass
Hey dude, the UCI banned them because a rider was sliced open by one.
Ummmmm ....
No.
I hope that was clear.
After the fact is seems Ventoso's wound was not caused by a disc---wrong side of the bike for the injured leg to hit a disc in the manner he says the incident occurred, for one thing. Right now there is no credible evidence that discs caused that or any other injury.
No one can be completely sure ... but when none of the facts add up .... Also, another rider was injured in that same race. Ventoso claimed that rider was also cut by a dicsc. but subsequent investigation showed that there were no disc-equipped bikes anywhere near that incident. Sorry to introduce facts and logic.
Originally Posted by
Lazyass
And since support vehicles have been around longer than anyone here has been alive and the first disc brake bike in the pro peloton appeared last summer, then obviously more riders have been injured by support vehicles
Which is a sort of deliberately ignorant misunderstanding of the issue.
How many riders have been KILLED by discs, ever?
How many riders have been KILLED by vehicles Just This year?
Last year a couple riders were wiped out by media motorcycles. We all remember seeing Johnny Hoogerland get nerfed into a barbed-wire fence a few years back . Most of us have seen numerous lose calls with support and mostly media vehicles. They are obviously insufficiently regulated .... and have ZERO to do with the safety or danger of discs in a pro peloton.