Born

The horror...the horror. Made a pretty boring stage somewhat exciting. I know this was posted in Road Racing, but since people seem to be really concerned about what may happen to them in a crash in Road Cycling I believe this is important. Also wheel bending makes us all horny.

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Close up pictures of some wheel bending. Satisfaction guaranteed:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/oth...tzerland.html?

Haussler is out, I think Cavendish is ok, but he got a 30 sec penalty...not like he is a GC contender anyways.

longbeachgary

Haussler is out? - did he break something?

Born

He banged up his elbow pretty bad from what I saw: https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/haus...se-after-crash. Hope he is better for France

mzeffex 

Ow.

recon455

Wow. Lance said on Facebook there was a crash at the end, but I never knew it was going to be like that. I missed todays stage on TV...

Cdy291

Cavendish and Haussler were throwing their bikes from side to side so much they ran over each others wheels. Cav's wheel bent like it was rubber.

rangerdavid

OUCH!!!!!!!!


that hurt just watching it........over, and over again.

recon455

Even though Cav is basically an *******, this is really sad to see anyone crash like this, especially when someone like Haussler is forced to abandon.

wowolf66

That must suck for the guy who wasn't paying attention and ended up doing a complete front-flip on his bike...ohhhh the tragedy

kindablue

Cav made the error, he didn't hold his line and ran into Haussler (thus the fine and the penalty). I'm not trying to say anything bad about him, but it was his mistake that instigated the crash.

383

Poor Haussler. Just got over his knee injury and now he's out again.

Val23708

both the sprinters were looking straight down when they collided

echappist

he better not hit the beers again. speedy recovery to him. hopefully he'll make it for TdF

nothing wrong with that when you can sprint straight. cav thought he could outsprint people so that moving sideways would be moot. he thought wrong

therhodeo

I think this is a big part of it. He's not on the same form that he was last year and he just hasn't realized it yet.

operator

Hahaha that lightweight wheel folded faster than ________

531Aussie

^ I reckon it's possible that that folding rim may have caused Cavendish to go down. I'm serious! There have a been jazillion other similar bumps in sprint finishes where the riders have just bounced off each other and kept riding.

Cdy291

I already said Haussler ran over is wheel.

operator

Yeah but that was after it folded.

531Aussie

Actually, yes, it looks like Haussler ran over Cavendish's tyre -- and possibly, also, the bottom of the rim -- most likely jamming it into the road just long enough to initiate the buckling. Still, as "usual", it folded pretty easily.

And if anyone comes out with the typical "any aluminium wheel in the world would also have bent in that situation" rubbish, I'll spew up!

Ingleside

Check out Haussler's helmet. It looks like its about to slip off right before he slams his head on the ground.

mathwheels

If you lok close each of the main guys in that crash all hit their heads hard on the ground. Shows how important helmets are and how amazing the technology is as they all got up with no brain damage.

teterider

Agreed. All Cav.

I still think the wheel folded because he went down at that angle, and as the wheel was angled with the ground it was run upon by Haussler's front.

gsteinb

If you run one wheel through another at 40+ it's going to collapse. /end

Since Billy is super mod these days all these threads should be merged into the nine that are inevitably going on in the pro cycling forum where they belong.

Grumpy McTrumpy

they belong nowhere.

who wants to look at crashes anyway?

Walter

Re: The Folding rim.

I've seen and taco'd a few rims in my day and I agree with gstein that at that speed damage is inevitable but.....if you look at the video the rim is straight as Cavendish and the bike roll immediately after contact with the ground. Is it normal for them to "spring back" in that situation.

This has nothing to do with causation; I'm just curious about what I'm seeing.