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tour de moselle fall.pngVideo: Pro rider takes a nasty fall as handlebars are snapped clean off
The victim, Maxime Roger of Chambrey CF Cycling Club, was travelling at around 60km/h when his TT extensions became detached from the base bars, according to an interview on French cycling website directvelo.com.
While at first it appears the fall was as a direct result of Roger's TT bars coming away from their mounts, road.cc's own Jo Burt pointed out that his tyre also appears to blow, which further knocked the rider's balance and ability to possibly save himself by quickly grabbing onto the base bars. Talk about getting all your mechanicals out the way in one go.
Roger painfully skids along the floor before coming to a stop near a grass verge, ending his day and his participation in the multi-stage event.
Edit: It appears the rider wasn't very seriously injured after the fall, explaining in the interview with DirectVelo that he has very sore knees but hopes to be racing again at the end of the month at the Trophy of Champions event.
Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
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I thought that the Superman position was banned by the UCI.
Gloves. The 2 pieces of protective equipment I'd actually go back home for if I forgot.
The tyre blew after his weight was already off the bike, didn't cause the crash. I wonder if someone used the wrong bolts of over-torqued them?
Main question in my mind is why on earth he wasn't wearing gloves? I wear kevlar palmed gloves for this reason exactly.
The tyre blowing was a result of the crash, not a contributing factor.
That's what I thought, too.
Oof.
Think the tyre went after he got a foot down - you see the spray of white. Mind, his right foot unclipping could have unbalanced him first...
One hell of a slide. I wonder how much of the front of that skinsuit remained?
Why you should always wear gloves!
Apologies for not clarifying whether the rider was ok folks - in his interview with DirectVelo he says he cant bend one knee, is very sore but hopes to be racing again soon... so it looks like no long-term damage sustained luckily!
That's all very well but you didn't answer the important question: is the bike damaged?
I think it's fair to say the bike was damaged before he fell off
Ouch, and no gloves either.
Team Radio: Roger and out. Looks nasty though, hope he's OK.
Nasty. Hope he's okay. It looks like the wet tarmac might have been a saving grace as his hands appeared to glide along.
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