All is not well in the Tour de France

All is not well in the Tour de France

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S10GTA

12,645 posts

166 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Dick.

Quhet

2,409 posts

145 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Crush said:
Ouch!

You can almost feel the gravel in the wounds from looking at the images!

Surprised they don't have protective clothing considering the speeds they get up to?
It would be hot as fk and would restrict movement. Helmets have only really been mandatory in racing for the past 12 or so years - good luck trying to get them wearing anything else!!

100SRV

2,126 posts

241 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Ouch. As someone said earlier "hard as nails".

I was looking at the photos of Bonnet and trying to work out what the red mark was on his shoulder - a massive f-off graze.

Get well soon guys.

Rouleur

7,015 posts

188 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Is it just me or is every single last thing the OP posts just moronic drivel?

Fugazi

564 posts

120 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Rouleur said:
Is it just me or is every single last thing the OP posts just moronic drivel?
Nope, it's not just you, the op is a prize handpump...

RobDickinson

31,343 posts

253 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Crush said:
Ouch!
Indeed. Having had a few lightweight crashes and scuffs that lot is going to hurt. For quite some time

Crush said:
Surprised they don't have protective clothing considering the speeds they get up to?
Only if they are forced too by the rules.

Jasandjules

69,825 posts

228 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Ouch. Some pretty bad injuries there - might be time to start wearing the kind of armour motorcyclists do?

ewenm

28,506 posts

244 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Jasandjules said:
Ouch. Some pretty bad injuries there - might be time to start wearing the kind of armour motorcyclists do?
As above - they'll get too hot and it'll restrict movement. The crashing/road rash is an acknowledged risk of the sport and you'll struggle to get the riders to reduce their competitiveness.

eharding

13,599 posts

283 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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stuart313 said:
eharding said:
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stuart313 said:
It seems that Lycra is not the invincibility cloak we thought it was.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/artic...



Would it be too much to include a rofl?
WTF is there to ROFL about? frown
I'm not sure really, sometimes pain can be funny.
I haven't been on a bicycle for 20 years, and I'm not a fan of the militant wing of the pedal-power fraternity, but you've got to be a very special kind of arse-wipe to look at the injuries these guys have suffered and somehow find it something to laugh about.

Suggest you go away and have a word with yourself.



Willy Nilly

12,511 posts

166 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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cool

Quality crashing there.

Didn't read the article, mainly because it is in the Mail, but on the wireless today they said they had to stop the race because all of the medics were looking after the crashees.

I know someone that was doing a time trial, he got knocked off by a car and broke his collar bone, but got back one, finished the race, came 3rd then had to wait for his mate to finish to take him to hospital

stuart313

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740 posts

112 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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nammynake said:
I assume the OP is trolling. Crashes are reasonably common in road racing; the riders accept the risk every time they race.

OP - are all crashes funny, or just this one?
I would say somewhere in between.

All these are funny

https://youtu.be/g_A9gzQyGzc

but 0.20 and 2.35 are fking hilarious.

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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I admit to laughing at the footage of the guy in manchester riding into a bus posted on here recently and I nearly wet myself when my friend fell over in spectacular fashion recently, but this crash when I was shown it this afternoon didn't raise a single titter. I just hoped that none were seriously injured.

Hard as nails doesn't quite cover it for these athletes, respect to every single one of them,




nammynake

2,587 posts

172 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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stuart313 said:
I would say somewhere in between.

All these are funny

https://youtu.be/g_A9gzQyGzc

but 0.20 and 2.35 are fking hilarious.
You have confirmed my assumption.

heebeegeetee

28,591 posts

247 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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I think the TdF is one of the planet's greatest sporting occasions and I think the athletes who participate are absolutely tough as nails. I really admire them.

I also think the OP must be a ct to want to laugh at a crash like that.

Joey Ramone

2,150 posts

124 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Whisper it quietly, but I think the OP may be a bit 'special'.

ikarl

3,730 posts

198 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Rouleur said:
Is it just me or is every single last thing the OP posts just moronic drivel?
Maybe but I am impressed by his commitment to it and at least he's not backing down from his opinion.

If he finds it funny, oh well, it takes all sorts etc

C.A.R.

3,967 posts

187 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Occupational hazard really?

Obviously it's not funny that people got hurt, but the images of cyclists going down like dominoes IS FUNNY. I'm with you OP.

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Poor buggers.
Remember picking bits of road gravel out of the palms of your hands as a kid? Or scraping your shins down metal pedals? Or coming to a halt from 20mph on your back? That looks like my memories but tenfold.
Aaaaaaahhh........hhsssssshhhh.......aaaaaaahh........hhhsssssshhhhh......aaaaaahhhh.....hhsssssssshhhh.

Chebble

1,906 posts

151 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Fugazi said:
Rouleur said:
Is it just me or is every single last thing the OP posts just moronic drivel?
Nope, it's not just you, the op is a prize handpump...
Thirded... From what I've read he has an agenda against the Police, and not only reads the Daily Mail, but believes it to be, to paraphrase, "the only newspaper that tells the truth" rofl - which speaks volumes about the man.

Anyway OP, keep on showing everyone how much of an idiot you are, and try not to give yourself an Aneurysm when the sirens wake you up again tonight!

Back on topic, I've no real interest in the TdF, and I'm no cyclist, but that looks nasty...

numtumfutunch

4,704 posts

137 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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sidicks said:
stuart313 said:
Would it be too much to include a rofl?
WTF?

Are you really such a **** in real life, or just on the internet?
You need to ask the question?

OP = nobb ed

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