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(via Conor McGregor on Instagram)Conor McGregor knocked off his bike... and gets a lift home off the driver who hit him
MMA fighter Conor McGregor has taken to social media after being hit by a driver while riding his bike, saying he "got a bang of[f] a car" as he films the aftermath. The 34-year-old appears to have avoided serious injuries, and is seen in the passenger seat of the driver's car with his broken bike in the boot.
While McGregor has been known to have a short fuse in the past, it (sort of) appears all was forgiven after this incident, with the Irishman claiming that the driver couldn't see him because of a "sun trap". McGregor also credits his wrestling and judo training for helping him to emerge largely unscathed, adding: "Having an awareness on the landing saved my life."
In the first video clip on McGregor's Instagram post, we see his Orbea hybrid on the floor, with the driver in the background repeatedly apologising.
"Don't worry about it", says McGregor, before the driver then offers him and the broken bike a lift home.
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It appears McGregor accepted, as in the next clip, he's in the passenger seat of the driver's car and continuing to film the aftermath of his experience. We find out the driver is called Nick, with some of McGregor's followers in the comments pointing out that he looks concerned, worried or both.
McGregor says: "Nick just smacked me with his car ...the bike [is] in the back.
"...I'm still here, thank God. That's all that matters."
McGregor has long been partial to a bike ride to stay fit, sharing pictures of a custom FiftyOne road bike with gold leaf details back in 2018.
From the footage it appears neither McGregor's body or confidence have suffered too badly, so hopefully he'll be back on the bike in no time...
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.
They'll never solve those roads with this bridge, it just gets you round the wet dock across the lock gates, they need another bridge to get across...
The website shows 318 bikes (types), so quite alot, and as you say, all kinds of bikes. However, that would be an average of 100-ish of each type!...
Very slowly...I assumed that he must have got back in the car and the driver followed the cyclist until he stopped.
I don't know about Nigel, but I have certainly read the hitchens article (not the Twitter storm), and broadly agree with it....
I'd tend to agree, fully pedestrianised areas work precisely because of the homogeneity. People are accustomed to, and surprisingly good at,...
You do so much of it yourself, it would be sad if you didn't recognise it.
You don't want padding, you want comfort. To me the shorts with a bit less padding work well, my favourites are any castelli with the progetto air...
I doubt the "any" with the "easily". Which is the point, many riders, especially riding upright Dutch bikes, wearing regular everyday clothes, will...
Perhaps if the driver sees someone on the right-hand side of the road about to throw a brick at a cyclist ahead of their vehicle, but it's quite a...
Thanks Jamie, good advice, will give it a try!