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GloverMart

11,773 posts

214 months

Sunday 26th July 2015
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Sky News are now reporting that police have opened fire on a car that tried to crash through a TdF barricade.

WTF?

Don1

15,936 posts

207 months

Sunday 26th July 2015
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Digger

14,591 posts

190 months

Monday 3rd August 2015
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Watching the highlights on Eurosport. Anyone know why vanmarcke (sp?) was intercepted by a moto bike? Was he 'drafting'?

JuniorD

8,616 posts

222 months

Monday 10th August 2015
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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.

budgie smuggler

5,359 posts

158 months

Monday 10th August 2015
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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.
eek 20s in on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCgyMkVwS24

Vocal Minority

Original Poster:

8,582 posts

151 months

Monday 10th August 2015
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Son of a bh!!!!!

KTF

9,788 posts

149 months

Monday 10th August 2015
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budgie smuggler said:
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

12,645 posts

166 months

Monday 10th August 2015
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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.

S10GTA

12,645 posts

166 months

Monday 10th August 2015
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KTF said:
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.
His bike was in the road?

KTF

9,788 posts

149 months

Monday 10th August 2015
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At 20s when he enters the frame on the left side, you can see that the bike isnt straight as the back wheel is out to the right. He holds that position until the apex when the back wheel lifts off the ground.

Maybe locked up the back brake then went for the front?

KTF

9,788 posts

149 months

Monday 10th August 2015
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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 wink

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

budgie smuggler

5,359 posts

158 months

Monday 10th August 2015
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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.
And yeah, bit of a stter that the motorcycle decided to stop where it did leaving nowhere for those two riders to go.


ewenm

28,506 posts

244 months

Monday 10th August 2015
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Froome confirmed for La Vuelta. Looks like everyone but Contador will be there.

Some Gump

12,671 posts

185 months

Monday 10th August 2015
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^ i just came by to post that same great news.

Hoping he can do well, but my money would be on Quintana.

JustinF

6,795 posts

202 months

Monday 10th August 2015
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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.

JuniorD

8,616 posts

222 months

Monday 10th August 2015
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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.


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-...

johnxjsc1985

15,948 posts

163 months

Monday 10th August 2015
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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-...
first saw him as a skinny yoof riding for Liverpool century. that was a hell of a hit and its going to take some recovery best wishes and a speedy recovery Matt.

CoolC

4,213 posts

213 months

Tuesday 11th August 2015
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spikeyhead

17,224 posts

196 months

Monday 24th August 2015
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Nibali's been kicked of the Vuelta for a very sticky bottle.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/34035096

VEA

4,785 posts

200 months

Monday 24th August 2015
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Footage of the event.

https://youtu.be/hSQW8OX8VqA?t=26s

What an idiot.