Stage 3 of the 2015 Tour de France should have been remembered for the titanic battle on the ascent of the brutally steep Mur de Huy, but it's likely it'll be remembered for the high speed crash that caused chaos, a temporary halt to racing, and has led to several big name abandons. The full chaos of the crash is really brought home in this shocking video.
The full extent of the crash has been revealed in this video from a camera being worn by ORICA-GreenEDGE Mechanic Fausto Oppici. Team mechanics have a pretty tough job, charged with changing wheels extremely quickly in moments of high pressure. This incident was far from normal, requiring new bikes being rushed back from the team car, retrieval of water bottles, fixing a helmet, and much more.
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If a helmet needs fixing – it
If a helmet needs fixing – it really should be replaced.
Must be Mad wrote:If a helmet
if a helmet needs fixing and the rider is wandering around apparently dazed, they should be withdrawn immediately from the event. As last night’s Velocast was discussing, concussion is being taken seriously by other sports- cycling currently plays it lip service with mandatory plastic hats.
Must be Mad wrote:If a helmet
In the heat of the moment, I doubt popping back to the car for a new helmet was the first thing in the bloke’s mind.
Pretty disturbing hearing all
Pretty disturbing hearing all those people moaning in pain. Still, an interesting look at what goes on behind the scenes.
Fausto Oppici?
Does he have a
Fausto Oppici?
Does he have a legendary ongoing rivalry with competing mechanic Gino Artalibi?
Excellent name, whether real or wisecrack.
(Well-wishes to all who were injured, more importantly.)
Excellent video. Among all
Excellent video. Among all that chaos he’s cool as and just gets on with things, including switching languages.
Team Lotto Jumbo have also
Team Lotto Jumbo have also released some footage from their mechanic at yesterday’s crash.
They give an interesting perspective of the chaos.
Sincerely hope everyone involves makes a full and speedy recovery!
I’ve ripped off a helmet and
I’ve ripped off a helmet and detached the strap before… ‘Jus sayin’
Hang on? Where’s the numpties
Hang on? Where’s the numpties with “There’s no need for helmets at all.” quoting their extensive scientific reports that turn out to be from a lab at the University of Wishful Thinking.
MercuryOne wrote:Hang on?
This is relevant, except the first part:
MercuryOne wrote:Hang on?
Hang on; you’re so desperate to have yet another helmet debate that you’re annoyed enough to insult people because you don’t like the stuff you’ve imagined they’ll say?
If mental gymnastics was in the Olympics, you’d be in the medals for sure…
MercuryOne wrote:Hang on?
Yeah, because every cyclist is out there doing 50+ km/h in dense pelotons. No cyclists at all toodling along at the same speed as runners, or less. Oh no.
In other news, the world is either black or white.
Paul J wrote:MercuryOne
Biggest crash I’ve had was at walking speed in a car park – only time I’ve ended up being checked in hospital after coming off a bike. Speed is almost irrelevant when it comes whether you should wear a helmet or not, as hitting the corner bit of a kerb or similar with your head at walking speed could be easily as bad as hitting your head against the tarmac or similar at 50 mph.
He did faff with the helmet,
He did faff with the helmet, but later he put 2 helmets back in the team car (including the one he was trying to fix. presumably the other car provided replacements
did strike me as odd the way he was seemingly running about with bikes from one car to another (I’m guessing making sure good bikes were on the inside and readily available, but it didn’t look like that – just a shuffling exercise with £10K bikes
balmybaldwin wrote:He did
A guess from other similar cases, different riders and different bikes, you want the bikes for key riders in the right place at the right time, in this case you have just lost a rider so to be blunt you do not want his spares in the way of spares for the riders still in the race. Get his bike off car 1 and onto car 2 get the bikes that were for lesser riders that were on car 2 onto car 1.
Quote:Hang on; you’re so
There’s a helmet debate?
Must’ve missed that one. :S
Nice use of ‘earth coloured’
Nice use of ‘earth coloured’ insulation tape there on the bars by OGE.