Post a pic of someone crashing a bike. :/
09-16-15, 12:29 PM
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That's a quite well known photo from the Tour de France 1958.
Poor guy on the right, wearing suit, was killed by the Darrigade impact.
Fast Eddy's Flandria Cafe: The Cafe Connoisseurs Guide to Finish Line Wipe Outs
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Poor guy on the right, wearing suit, was killed by the Darrigade impact.
Fast Eddy's Flandria Cafe: The Cafe Connoisseurs Guide to Finish Line Wipe Outs
(scroll down)
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That's a quite well known photo from the Tour de France 1958.
Poor guy on the right, wearing suit, was killed by the Darrigade impact.
Fast Eddy's Flandria Cafe: The Cafe Connoisseurs Guide to Finish Line Wipe Outs
(scroll down)
Poor guy on the right, wearing suit, was killed by the Darrigade impact.
Fast Eddy's Flandria Cafe: The Cafe Connoisseurs Guide to Finish Line Wipe Outs
(scroll down)
09-17-15, 12:03 PM
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One of our local heroes posted this go pro video of his recent crash,
along the Seattle waterfront.
Skip to about the 55 second mark to see the crash,
but be careful of the rough language if your at work.
along the Seattle waterfront.
Skip to about the 55 second mark to see the crash,
but be careful of the rough language if your at work.
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09-18-15, 08:35 AM
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I took a sequence of six screenshots, below, and... well, the GIF format doubles the image at times; see the way the later frames show two images superimposed. This confuses things, but I don't think that's what you're seeing on the front wheel in the fourth frame. The rear wheel is doubled because it's moving very fast, but the front wheel is not moving very fast at all, since it has stopped. I'm thinking the front tire blew off the rim.
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09-18-15, 11:35 AM
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Thanks for the pics. I spent at least half an hour myself trying to determine what happened here. I can see the rider moving his body to the front of the bike, but whether that's a cause or a result of anything, I can't see. Same thing with the tire: is it the cause or the result of the wheel being at the wrong angle?
I'm not sure. Clearly something went wrong and subsequently caused the front wheel to stop turning.
I took a sequence of six screenshots, below, and... well, the GIF format doubles the image at times; see the way the later frames show two images superimposed. This confuses things, but I don't think that's what you're seeing on the front wheel in the fourth frame. The rear wheel is doubled because it's moving very fast, but the front wheel is not moving very fast at all, since it has stopped. I'm thinking the front tire blew off the rim.
I took a sequence of six screenshots, below, and... well, the GIF format doubles the image at times; see the way the later frames show two images superimposed. This confuses things, but I don't think that's what you're seeing on the front wheel in the fourth frame. The rear wheel is doubled because it's moving very fast, but the front wheel is not moving very fast at all, since it has stopped. I'm thinking the front tire blew off the rim.
09-18-15, 11:59 AM
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Thanks for the pics. I spent at least half an hour myself trying to determine what happened here. I can see the rider moving his body to the front of the bike, but whether that's a cause or a result of anything, I can't see. Same thing with the tire: is it the cause or the result of the wheel being at the wrong angle?
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My guess is that he was riding on a flat,
when suddenly the tire came off the rim.
when suddenly the tire came off the rim.
09-18-15, 02:18 PM
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I think he shifted himself off of the saddle and onto the front of the top tube, putting all of his weight on the front wheel. Since he seems to be riding a fixed gear, he may have put some back pressure on the pedals and that ended up shifting his center of gravity in front of the front hub. Down you go!
09-18-15, 03:10 PM
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I couldn't stop watching that one, and laughing, or the one right above it (not laughing) where the guy does a flip and his bike wings into the air.
It does look like he shifts a lot of weight forward right before it happens. The fixed gear explanation above might be right. Or the stem twisted in the steerer?
It does look like he shifts a lot of weight forward right before it happens. The fixed gear explanation above might be right. Or the stem twisted in the steerer?
09-18-15, 03:21 PM
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That was my thought as well. The fact that the rider is standing slightly and shifted forward likely contributed to this. It appears that the right foot shifts slightly before everything goes out of control. I do see the falling strap but doesn't see to get in the way of anything; perhaps when the strap that starts to fall, the rider started to shift his (her?) weight and was a contributing factor. Or possibly that forward shifted position maybe have lead to toe overlap, which then forced an over-correction of the bars and the fall. It looks to me that the front tire is starting to come off the wire in rhm's third frame due to the severe angle of the wheel relative to forward motion. At that point, the rider was going down regardless of whether the front tire came off.
09-18-15, 03:23 PM
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The guy on the fixed gear leaned forward to do a skid, all of his weight was on the front wheel, and he shifted to the side and he rotated on the axis of the steerer
