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JuniorD said:
Anyone see Matt Brammier's crash in the Tour of Utah?
Unreal, he's lucky to be alive. Matt is a total savage though, one of the hardmen of British and irish cycling.
20s in on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCgyMkVwS24Unreal, he's lucky to be alive. Matt is a total savage though, one of the hardmen of British and irish cycling.
budgie smuggler said:
20s in on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCgyMkVwS24
I dont know if it was lucky or not that the car was there as there was no way he would have made that bend.You can see the bike fly off into the trees after the impact which is where he would have ended up with no car contact.
S10GTA said:
His bike was in the road?
Yeah, I just looked at the video again and the bike stays next to the car. I was going to edit the original post but you caught me out Something does fly off into the woods and I thought it was the bike at first until I went through the clip slower as it was hard to tell.
Edit: Someone captured it from the bottom of the hill as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv0rjqfKUZM
Edited by KTF on Monday 10th August 11:56
S10GTA said:
That looks like some kind of brake failure. Nobody would take that corner at that speed out of choice. His bike leaves the road at the approach to the corner due to the speed.
Noticed a couple of other riders hit the motorbike just afterwards too.
I thought that at first but now I doubt it, as he's pulling a stoppie towards the end, implying near maximum braking. Noticed a couple of other riders hit the motorbike just afterwards too.
And yeah, bit of a stter that the motorcycle decided to stop where it did leaving nowhere for those two riders to go.
The downhill camera doesn't tell the whole story, that camera below seems to suggest he flew around the right hander above, possibly expecting a little more road before the next bend, this put him on the inside line for the much sharper left hander following, grabbing all the brake he could was the only option.
Here's to a full and swift recovery.
Here's to a full and swift recovery.
JustinF said:
The downhill camera doesn't tell the whole story, that camera below seems to suggest he flew around the right hander above, possibly expecting a little more road before the next bend, this put him on the inside line for the much sharper left hander following, grabbing all the brake he could was the only option.
Here's to a full and swift recovery.
Here's to a full and swift recovery.
What a champ. Broken pelvis, broken ribs, a fractured sacrum and a pneumothorax. He broke two legs in 2007 in a crash with a lorry and came back stronger.
http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/brammeier-...
JuniorD said:
What a champ. Broken pelvis, broken ribs, a fractured sacrum and a pneumothorax. He broke two legs in 2007 in a crash with a lorry and came back stronger.
http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/brammeier-...
Nibali's been kicked of the Vuelta for a very sticky bottle.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/34035096
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/34035096
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