Cyclist’s footage of terrifying cliff crash goes viral; Tirreno-Adriatico rider run over by race motorbike; Bike shop urges other cycling businesses to not sell or repair e-scooters + more on the live blog
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Cyclist's footage of terrifying cliff crash goes viral
My word…
Cyclist rides a razor-thin path along a cliffside pic.twitter.com/QFD1XW7cFl
— Extreme footage (@Xtremefootage) March 13, 2026
There’s a cyclist on Instagram who filmed this, the video since going viral on multiple social media platforms. Cartagenabici17 is where you’ll find the full footage on Instagram, the rider seemingly out on a precarious cliffside path with their dog when they fell and slid several metres down.
Fortunately they appear to escape with nothing but some scratches and an extreme dose of adrenaline from the plunge, the dog able to less dramatically come down for a hug once they’ve stopped.
Amusingly, one of the top comments on Instagram references the rider’s lack of helmet… whatever your thoughts on helmets, we can probably agree whether you wear one or not is going to make much difference during a life-threatening cliff fall into the sea. Thankfully the majority of comments were simply supportive messages wishing the rider well.
I know what my next nightmare’s going to involve…
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Harold Tejada claims first WorldTour win with late Paris-Nice attack
Harold Tejada sneaks away to claim his first WorldTour win! 👏
The Colombian takes Stage 6 of Paris-Nice. pic.twitter.com/t676vScd55
— Cycling on TNT Sports (@cyclingontnt) March 13, 2026
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Michael Valgren's breakaway joy at Tirreno-Adriatico
Michael Valgren is BACK and wins from the early break 🙌🏆
A huge ride from the Dane sees him take Stage 5 of Tirreno Adriatico. pic.twitter.com/Hug68M8Ct9
— Cycling on TNT Sports (@cyclingontnt) March 13, 2026
Five years on from his last pro victory, Michael Valgren rediscovered that winning feeling this afternoon, taking stage five of Tirreno-Adriatico from the breakaway. On a viciously lumpy Italian day, the Dane was in the day’s break and held off the chase to win alone in Mombaroccio.
Isaac del Toro and Matteo Jorgenson got closest but crossed the line 11 seconds back, the UAE Team Emirates rider almost certainly quite content with reclaiming the race lead from Giulio Pellizzari as his consolation prize.
Del Toro is now 23 seconds ahead of the Italian on GC, the Mexican rider the clear favourite to add Tirreno to his UAE Tour win from last month. Jorgenson himself jumped up to third with his performance, a big weekend of climbing to come.
Netflix to air film about Moriah Wilson
A film titled ‘The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson’, produced by Netflix, will air on the streaming platform next month, the documentary looking at the cyclist’s life.
Gravel racer Wilson was murdered in 2022 by Kaitlin Armstrong, who was jailed for 90 years. Wilson was shot dead in Texas, Armstrong fleeing the state and evading arrest before ultimately being caught in Costa Rica after six weeks on the run.
The film is, according to its listing, an “intimate portrait of cyclist Moriah Wilson, raised by a fierce, loving family, whose singular drive propelled her to athletic brilliance before her life was tragically cut short by murder”.
It premiered at an Austin-based film festival this week and will be released on Netflix on April 3.
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Visma-Lease a Bike pro to undergo heart operation
Visma-Lease a Bike’s young German rider Niklas Behrens will undergo an ablation to treat heart rhythm disturbances.
The team confirmed he’ll be out of action for a few months, the emphasis solely on health and recovery. Behrens expressed gratitude for the team’s “guidance and support” during such a difficult time.
He added: “I will be attacking my recovery with the same focus I bring to every race. While it’s tough to be out of competition and not able to race with my teammates, I’m committed to the process so I can return even stronger. I can’t wait to get back in the peloton, start pinning on a number again and show the team what I can do.”
Oscar Onley out of Paris-Nice with illness
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Considering the Brit crashed earlier in the week and was 11 minutes down on Jonas Vingegaard, it’s probably not the end of the world, but not ideal for Oscar Onley to miss the weekend’s mountains. Recovery depending, he’s expected to be back racing at Volta a Catalunya later this month.
Greg James sets off on Red Nose Day 'Longest Ride' tandem challenge
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Bike shop urges other cycling businesses to not sell or repair e-scooters
A Stockton-based bike shop owner has told the BBC he is refusing to sell or repair e-scooters.
While hire scheme scooters are legal for use on UK roads, electric scooters bought privately are only legal for use on private land. It is, of course, legal to sell or own them, however Grant Maclver of Skinnergate Cycles told the BBC he believes other bike shops should join him in opting not to sell or repair the scooters.
Saying other cycling businesses appear “happy to sell them knowing they’re being used on the streets and potentially terrorising local neighbourhoods”, Maclver said it didn’t sit right taking the business, even if legally he could.
For the piece, Supt Paul Richardson also told the BBC: “Often e-scooters are seen as toys rather than vehicles and some people don’t know that by law they are prohibited from being used on public land and cycle lanes due to the dangers they pose to both the riders and members of the public.”
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Pro cyclist run over by race motorbike rider after crash
Teammate Mathieu van der Poel won Thursday’s stage to cap off an eventful day for Alpecin-Premier Tech rider Michael Gogl, the Austrian (everyone’s favourite underdog, who once famously infiltrated a Strade Bianche top-seven including Van der Poel, Julian Alaphilippe, Egan Bernal, Wout van Aert, Tom Pidcock and Tadej Pogačar) crashing on Tirreno-Adriatico’s fourth stage, only to then get run over by a rider of a race motorbike.
El atropello de la moto de carrera a Michael Gogl.#TirrenoAdriatico pic.twitter.com/QidiAFRVEF
— Eurosport.es (@Eurosport_ES) March 12, 2026
Fortunately for Gogl, his team was able to confirm later in the evening that their rider was relatively unharmed by the incident. “The damage is limited to abrasions and bruises,” an Alpecin-Premier Tech spokesperson explained. “He is expected to start again tomorrow. Phew!”
On first viewing it appeared as though the motorbike rider might have knocked Gogl off his bike. However, with slow motion replays, it soon became clear he had actually crashed just in front of the motorbike rider, who then went into him. Questions can probably be asked about whether members of the race convoy should be so close to riders that, in the case of a crash like this, they can’t avoid a secondary collision, however I guess it’s marginally better than the concerning initial thought that Gogl might have been knocked off by AND run over by the motorbike rider.
Anyway, Gogl shared a video of the incident on his Instagram page having limped home in the grupetto, 15 minutes down on teammate and stage winner Van der Poel.
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@Psi163 yeah, I rode on Tenerife at Easter and have never experienced such amazingly considerate drivers. Morocco is also good, if chaotic.
Schrödinger’s traffic laws? Is there something fundamentally unknowable about them?
@goodolfin No, it could have been phrased more clearly but Spain already had a law mandating helmets for under-sixteens at all times in all areas; helmets for adults were only mandatory outside urban areas and could be removed for long climbs, in times of extreme heat or if the rider could produce a medical exemption. Now those exemptions have been removed. For U16s it's status quo, helmets everywhere without exemption as it was before, for adults no more exemptions outside urban areas though they can still ride helmetless in towns.
@goodolfin No, it could have been phrased more clearly but Spain already had a law mandating helmets for under-sixteens at all times in all areas; helmets for adults were only mandatory outside urban areas and could be removed for long climbs, in times of extreme heat or if the rider could produce a medical exemption. Now those exemptions have been removed. For U16s it's status quo, helmets everywhere without exemption as it was before, for adults no more exemptions outside urban areas though they can still ride helmetless in towns.
They do a light version of the shoe for those concerned with weight, but it's not leather.
SPD-SLR uses the standard 3 bolt design, but because it does away with adjustability on the cleat, this needs to be on the shoe. Some existing shoes have this, some don't. You'd want to take care of you're upgraded from SPD-SLR, but you're not locked into a closed ecosystem. The Ekoi is different, but that's the price of innovation. As someone who has used MTB systems on the road for years for the walkability, I'm tempted by the Ekoi system. The downside for me is ordering from France, as for orders over £135 they don't add VAT, so you get charged this plus duties plus an admin fee by the delivery company. But that's down to Brexit (and some other technical VAT changes), not Ekoi.
@andystow not so helpful for current US cyclists or some UK ones * but I suspect the greatest safety benefits would come from a (conceptually) simple "separate modes where the speed / mass difference is significant, only allow mixing where the more dangerous is significantly slowed and not numerous compared to others". Note no references to skill or careful use in that formulation. That's certainly needed for best results but the system better not *depend* on humans being on their best behavior... * lots of people "have to drive" in the US, even more so than the UK (major generalisation but while public transport is fairly rubbish in much of the UK it *exists* to a greater degree than in much of the US).
@andystow as you subtly didn't spell out ... ... the best bit about the second is that cycling (and walking) also looks safer if you remove those drivers. The opposite doesn't make much difference to drivers.
I have cycled in many countries and found the Spanish to be the most considerate road users to cyclists, whatever their laws say.
If I'm reading this article correctly, this new law only applies to cyclists under 16 years old. Is that correct ? If so, then it makes perfect sense.
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Definitely there should be a review of driving by members of the convoy with particular reference to how close they get to the riders; I had a free afternoon yesterday so I watched Tirreno-Adriatico followed by Paris-Nice and in both races there were moments where I was gripping the arms of my chair anticipating a crash as cars and motorbikes came within inches of riders, even ones who were on the floor after a crash. I know they are all highly skilled and fully trained et cetera et cetera but no skill or training can make your brakes work better if someone goes down and you are closer to them than your minimum braking distance.
“Mayor to consider new charges for SUVs in London”
“Transport for London (TfL) research claimed they created “intensifying risks across London”.
Figures from City Hall indicate SUVs (drivers, my edit) are much more likely to kill a pedestrian than smaller cars if involved in a collision.
… using AI to detect dangerous drivers, more 20mph speed limits…”
and…
“Mike Hawes, from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, said: “SUV is a marketing term with no specific definition. However, every car sold in the UK, regardless of size, is certified to exacting safety and pedestrian protection standards – part of the reason why the UK has one of the world’s best road safety records.
“Manufacturers also invest billions in advanced safety technology such as automated braking systems, assisting licensed drivers to get around more safely while protecting other road users such as pedestrians, mopeds and e-bikes.”
So… the evidence is that it is the human behind the wheel that is the major factor in the increased KSI risks from using them…?
Though I’m not entirely sure how charging drivers of “SUVs” more for using them is going to help.
At the end of the day, if someone can afford to buy and run one then they are likely to be able to afford any (usually small) increase in such costs/charges.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14m142ze58o
I guess there are two ways in which this could prove useful: first of all at least if the drivers of Selfish Ugly Vehicles are paying more to use the roads at least they are making some contribution to repairing the damage their heavier vehicles do; secondly a surprising number of people who own these vehicles aren’t really that rich and can’t really afford them, absurdly lots of people get them on finance or leasing deals that cost much more than they can really manage, presumably because it’s more important to keep up with the Joneses than it is to live within your means. If such people are faced with a daily charge for driving their cars they might reconsider their choices: even a fiver a day five days a week comes to over a grand a year. The best way of keeping them out of central London might well be to follow the Paris example and increase parking charges; in central Paris the €6 per hour parking charge becomes €18 per hour for SUVs, if you couldn’t drive into London without paying 50 quid for three hours parking that would be a pretty big disincentive even if relatively well off, one imagines.
Yeah, I was thinking the increased costs could be put towards road maintenance.
But then that leads to the slippery slope of “I pay for the roads, cyclists don’t…”
As far as I can tell from what I see online and overhear in public, 95% of motorists have already descended that slippery slope and are lying in a suppurating heap at the bottom, so not sure it would make that much difference.
All that money wasted on useless cycle paths and they still choose to ride on the cliffs.
All in black and with no helmet as well, deserves whatever she gets.
I’ll definitely wear a helmet next time…
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/miracle-as-cyclist-who-rode-off-100ft-cliff-survives-238827/
Or maybe just ELIMINATE THE RISK
“…potentially terrorising local neighbourhoods…”
For perspective, please see Tehran.
Or Lebanon. You could add Palestine – but Palestine has been erased.
Failing to drive a sufficient distance behind a vehicle travelling in front of the driver so the driver can, if necessary, stop safely to avoid a collision with the vehicle.
Failing to stop at the scene of an accident and give personal details to another driver involved in the crash.
That’s a lot of points on your licence.
Teen begins petition after bike stolen on birthday
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g7k8dw28jo
Although the BBC seems to have neglected to ask what the petition is actually /for/.
(Or, for that matter, whether he spells his name with a ‘v’ or a ‘ph’.)
In other bike theft news, if you have your bike stolen in London Brompton will now generously give you two weeks of free bike hire whilst you find a replacement: https://www.bikeradar.com/news/bike-theft-brompton-replacement