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Video: On-board footage as Jérémy Roy miraculously escapes crash at Tour Down Under finish

Stage ends in 75km/h pile-up

Today's stage of the Tour Down Under ended in a pile-up as FDJ rider Lorrenzo Manzin fell near the finish.

His teammate Jérémy Roy was not far behind but amazingly managed to avoid the carnage. "Don't ask me how I did it!" he said when he later tweeted the footage.

Perhaps even more impressive than his bike-handling, crash-dodging skills is the fact that Roy finished in 11th place.

Maarten Tjallingii of LottoNLJumbo was caught up in the crash. His team posted this shot of the damage:

 

 

And he later posted this Vine clip from SBS TV:

 

 

John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.

He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.

Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.

John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.

He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.

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aIex | 9 years ago
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Canyon's fork hit Kluge's wheel just in the rim.  13

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Wardy74 | 9 years ago
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Well Jeremy has been practicing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDoFH3Tby7M#t=72

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Iamnot Wiggins | 9 years ago
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Bit worrying that the Katusha riders front wheel just becomes totally removed from his forks. Jesus.

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JonMack replied to Iamnot Wiggins | 9 years ago
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The forks snapped...

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Iamnot Wiggins replied to JonMack | 9 years ago
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JonMack wrote:

The forks snapped...

So they do! My mistake then.

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Nixster replied to Iamnot Wiggins | 9 years ago
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Iamnot Wiggins wrote:

Bit worrying that the Katusha riders front wheel just becomes totally removed from his forks. Jesus.

Or indeed that his fork gets completely removed from his bike.

Second Canyon fork chopped in a video from Down Under recently - I know they're really light but I don't think anything would have survived the one where an alloy bar got caught in the wheel.

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livestrongnick | 9 years ago
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Who was that in the yellow jersey taking a dive?  31

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Simon_MacMichael replied to livestrongnick | 9 years ago
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livestrongnick wrote:

Who was that in the yellow jersey taking a dive?  31

Tjallingi, I assume

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backflipbedlem | 9 years ago
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Man that's a lot of skidding!  40

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gthornton101 | 9 years ago
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hope everyone is ok... can you imagine a crash like that with disc brake rotors flying everywhere!

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STATO replied to gthornton101 | 9 years ago
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gthornton101 wrote:

hope everyone is ok... can you imagine a crash like that with disc brake rotors flying everywhere!

As opposed to the safety of crashing amidst the jagged ends of snapped carbon forks?

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jollygoodvelo replied to STATO | 9 years ago
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STATO wrote:
gthornton101 wrote:

hope everyone is ok... can you imagine a crash like that with disc brake rotors flying everywhere!

As opposed to the safety of crashing amidst the jagged ends of snapped carbon forks?

...and pointy chainrings.

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othello | 9 years ago
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Looks like Stannard is having a boogie!  41

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Jimmy Ray Will | 9 years ago
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That Sky rider was amazing... If it wasn't for the plethora of bikes in his way, I reckon he could have skidded that one out!

Also amazed by the softness of the Astana riders get down. That's how you drop it at high speed, nice and gentle.

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therevokid | 9 years ago
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cringe .... i even flinched when the sky rider "stepped off" !

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