The bike is smashed!

morana · 26-08-2011 8:23am #1

http://www.rbnett.no/sport/article371265.ece

kenmc · 26-08-2011 8:33am

For a second I was thinking of this :

Couldn't understand where the front cyclists bike was gone. Then I saw he was very small. And not wearing a helmet. Tsch.... And the look on yer wans face on the left. CLINK goes the penny.

Harrybelafonte · 26-08-2011 9:12am

Kid ran on to get a bidon

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/arvesen-in-high-speed-vuelta-a-espana-crash

RobbieTheRobber · 26-08-2011 9:19am

Glad to read both the kid and Arvesen are alright the picture looks horrific.

Now where is that thread on spectators and cycling gone, it is Friday after all!

wayne0308 · 26-08-2011 10:02am

Ouch that looks like a rough crash. Good to hear both the boy and cyclists are okay!

Hungrycol · 26-08-2011 10:40am

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

Kid ran on to get a bidon

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/arvesen-in-high-speed-vuelta-a-espana-crash

cyclingnews wrote:

Arvesen, in his final year before retirement, has had his share of mishaps this season. Not only did he crash in the team time trial on stage 1, he also crashed and broke the saddle off his bike in Paris-Roubaix, riding 20km without a seat before finally quitting the race.

20kms!

Caroline_ie · 26-08-2011 11:20am

Sorry but how bloody stupid can a kid be to do that.

bcmf · 26-08-2011 11:29am

Caroline_ie wrote: »

Sorry but how bloody stupid can a kid be to do that.

Sorry Caroline but kids can do all sorts of things that are beyond adult comprehension.
The kid probably saw on the tv others picking up bidons and worked form there.
Think of a kid running out onto a road to chase a ball/dog/cat/frog without looking.
Safe enough to say ,though, he wont do it again and was lucky not to be seriously hurt!

Vélo · 26-08-2011 12:04pm

Caroline_ie wrote: »

Sorry but how bloody stupid can a kid be to do that.

The silly cyclist probably didn't even have a bell on his bike.;)

sumone · 26-08-2011 1:04pm

Vélo wrote: »

The silly cyclist probably didn't even have a bell on his bike.;)

Yes but he was wearing a helmet and that surely saved his life!:D

tomasrojo · 26-08-2011 1:41pm

I'm sure road tax comes into this somewhere.

tomasrojo · 26-08-2011 1:42pm

Hungrycol wrote: »

20kms!

By a strange coincidence, not one hour ago, I was reading this page:

http://www.kenkifer.com/bikepages/lifestyle/myths.htm

Legends, which I won't look at here, are stories about a real person which are supposed to be true but are not. We certainly have enough cyclists who have accomplished legendary feats, Cindy Whitehead winning a race after riding 50 miles without a seat [...]

EDIT: In fact, here she is during the race:

and after:

http://sonic.net/~ckelly/Seekay/whitehead.htm

The bike is smashed!

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