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"Shit happens" says rider who crashed on cattle grid at start of Tour de Yorkshire

Incident happened just a few hundred metres after the start of stage one

Katusha’s Sven Erik Bystrom was the first casualty of the Tour de Yorkshire, forced to abandon with facial injuries after just a few hundred metres. The 2014 under-23 road race world champion apparently came a cropper on a cattle grid in an incident that saw a number of riders hit the deck.

TV coverage of the incident showed Bystrom lying face down on the ground following his fall. As the other riders picked themselves up, one even dropped his rear wheel onto Bystrom’s back, not knowing he was there.

 

 

The cause of the crash, it seems, was a cattle grid.

 

 

Bystrom seemed phlegmatic about his abandonment and later confirmed that he hadn’t suffered any broken bones.

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Harmanhead | 7 years ago
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What cattle grid?

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PapaSmurf | 7 years ago
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What's the UCI's stance on this?

 

Awaiting a 'knee jerk reaction'

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Batchy | 7 years ago
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All for the sake of a couple of 8x4 sheets of plywood ? !

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TheSpaniard replied to Batchy | 7 years ago
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Batchy wrote:

All for the sake of a couple of 8x4 sheets of plywood ? !

 

you wouldn't put plywood over cobbles, why a cattle grid? It's all part of the terrain.

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WDG replied to TheSpaniard | 7 years ago
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TheSpaniard wrote:
Batchy wrote:

All for the sake of a couple of 8x4 sheets of plywood ? !

 

you wouldn't put plywood over cobbles, why a cattle grid? It's all part of the terrain.

Plus all the cattle would abscond.  Carnage ensues.

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medic_ollie | 7 years ago
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Looked like the crash in my 4th cat race last week >.<

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Rapha Nadal | 7 years ago
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What's the UCI's stance on this?

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Notsofast | 7 years ago
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but only in France and Spain

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Russell Orgazoid | 7 years ago
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Ban cattle grids.

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