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Screenshot 2021-06-27 at 10.28.00Video: Team mechanic sprints through chaotic aftermath of crash with replacement bike
A Jumbo-Visma mechanic is filmed sprinting through the chaos of yesterday's huge crash with a replacement bike.
🇫🇷#TDF2021
"Run, Sem, run!"🏃🏻♂️
The long way from car 23 to the crash pic.twitter.com/UCrjRoROjq— Team Jumbo-Visma cycling (@JumboVismaRoad) June 26, 2021
The dramatic footage released by the team shows the mechanic leaping out of the team car, grabbing a bike off the roof and sprinting down past the spectators on the side of the road.
As he runs the crowd cheers him on and the determined mechanic, believed to be Sem Versteeg, stops at nothing to reach the peloton.
Commenting beneath the video, people praised his 'nerves of steel' although some questioned whether he might have been better off simply riding the bike through the cars...
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- slc 44 min 51 sec ago
Joking aside, governments could require new cars to be fitted with smart ignition systems that operate only for a licensed driver. No doubt there...
- slc 56 min 20 sec ago
It sounds like a question from Ian Walker's motornormativity paper. Is it OK to dismember a (car|bike) when it is left in an inconvenient location?
- chrisonabike 7 hours 51 min ago
I have a visual memory from childhood of one of this species of bricks popping loose from a bracket on a downhill section and flying away to smash ...
- wtjs 8 hours 41 min ago
There is an increasing 'disconnect' between comments in this topic and reality. Cords are either all cotton or mostly cotton and are going to last...
- ktache 9 hours 12 min ago
There are people out there who will make you the belt out of your old tyre.
- chrisonabike 9 hours 13 min ago
Furry dice and an air freshener for your helmet.
- Simon E 10 hours 1 min ago
Ah yes, those are hopefully not the 'master craftsmen' that has constructed a wide range of shoddy Italian cars and motorbikes over the years with...
- Simon E 10 hours 24 min ago
A SuperSix is definitely not an all-rounder....
- chrisonabike 11 hours 15 min ago
Just get them to walk a treadmill - or better, ride exercise bikes to power path lighting.
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Great effort but yes, why not just ride the bike.
Total guess but I'd assume the UCI have a rule that the only people allowed to ride bikes on the parcours are the riders? Imagine in the mountains when the team cars are stuck behind and a rider has a mechanical, teams could use reserve riders as mechanics to jump on the spares and ride them up!