Video: Fabio Felline fractures skull in freak Amstel Gold crash

A flimsy lid like that will not offer much protection, especially around the sides including the face!  I've worn tougher helmets based on a lid like design and seen/felt what happened during a crash, so upgraded to one not based on a lid like design and had no issues during a later crash.

You want less weight and loads of venting, you pay for it with less protection.

I hope he makes a full recovery and is getting lots of pain relief that looked horrible.

In the meantime, we should definitely ban disk brakes on Sportives. Probably on the road too.

If he got his fingers caught in the spokes, isn't he now missing a couple of digits?

I did wonder how the hell someone crashed in a neutralised zone when I heard the news.

Hope he recovers quickly, but I bet he'll get some ribbing when back in the peloton.

I've done it once when a branch somehow lodged in the front wheel.

A club member also went over when he decided to cycle over an empty coke can. It promptly moulded itself around the tyreand rim and then wedged in the fork crown. He had great black eyes from that.

My Winter trainer has had a rattly front mudguard for the last three months. I've got into the habit while riding of slipping my hand in under the down tube just behind the top of the forks to temporarily re-adjust the bracket. I think I may review this particular maintenance policy.

I wonder when the UCI will step in to ban riders adjusting bikes whilst on the fly?

Time for full face helmets in the peloton....and ban those pesky rim brakes, that was 'obviously' the cause...and ban fingers too...was he a qualified mechanic? Might need to ban 'sunday mechanics' too!

He won't do that again. The UCI should make the peloton use front and rear disc wheels so skinny Bez roadies don't put their hands in their wheels. Hope he's better soon.

Yes it looks like his hand got jammed in  the front wheel!!! Unluckily gets a Fractured skull but i'm suprised he didn't loose any fingers in the wheel going at that speed!! Do they use aero spokes in the peleton? They are sharp!

Hang on, don't all the helmet obsessives tell me that a helmet will prevent head injuries?  And will most definitely prevent skull fractures?

Oh, sorry, that must have been some other universe.

Ow. Poor guy hope he heals well. Silly crash.

I remember noticing one of my bar plugs was loose. So I smacked it back in. Imagine my surprise when the bike veered wildly!

You only do silly things like that once.

I went through frame by frame. He's fiddling with the QR, then starts to fall left off the bike, left hand tries to stabilise himself but hits spokes and is drawn forward into fork, trying to pull hand out, then starts to overbalance left and the front wheel locks up and over he goes. Can't get his hand out of behind the fork to stop himself Horrible.

I remember doing something like that in about 1966. I was trying to straighten the front mudguard with my foot, got it in the spokes and went over the bars into the tarmac in a swallow dive. Incredibly quick escalation like that. Fortunately I was going a bit slower than this chap and was able to break my fall.

No disc brakes involved????

#bandwagon

Ouch, looks like he didn't get his hands out and legs flipped over his head. Fractures at base of skull can easily be fatal, lucky lucky. Odd crash though...

Yikes!
Look like he was faffing near wheel and got his hand caught in spokes. Hand then got shoved into back of fork, locking wheel up and pitching him over bars.