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WOW! You have to wonder what that guy was thinking...or not thinking.FilipeFD said:
WOW! You have to wonder what that guy was thinking...or not thinking.FilipeFD said:
The moto stalled apparently.jmdirt said:WOW! You have to wonder what that guy was thinking...or not thinking.FilipeFD said:
According to Sporza, Stig Broeckx is in a induced coma with his condition being described as 'alarming'.Jancouver said:
I don't like to start a big discussion after such an accident, but I have a feeling not much is happening to prevent it in the future.
Imagine Formula 1 with 10 safety cars driving around the Formula 1 cars all the time and anyone with a driver license can apply for the job.
That's pretty much the situation in cycling right now...
Ok, that's the exaggerated, emotional version, but you get the point don't you? Let's try to be objective:
80% of all the motorbikes we need in the peloton to prevent accidents and the 20% we need for race footage (no footage>no money).
And most of the time I'm very happy that they are there. And most of them have a lot of experience and are very good in the bunch.
But some are not and some are even more aggressive and full of adrenaline than us riders.
We need to have motorbikes in the peloton that are the opposite of us riders: calm, patient and reasonable. Let us do the racing.
Motorcyclists: we need you for our safety. We don't need you to do your own little race before a corner, trying to overtake the bunch.
So the solution? Better rules when to overtake and when not to. More experience required. Some motorcyclists need a different mentality.
Totally agree with Tom on that. It sounds reasonableice&fire said:Boonen disagrees with this thread title. Interestingly, his explanation makes sense.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/boonen-argues-that-more-vehicles-would-make-peloton-safer/
he is right, but it's a matter of having the money and equipment for that. Organisers and media have to admit that when you don't have the ideal number of bikes, coverage might suffer a wee bit, but it's better than a deadly accident.RedheadDane said:Yeah... why not have more race vehicles connected to the race, but they wouldn't all be in the race at the same time?
I know where he is coming from but he hasn't really thought the logistics of it through. His comments are in relation to course closing motos that constantly have to leapfrog the peloton and that if there were more of them they wouldn't have to pass as often. What that would lead to though is big groups of motos trying to get past not quite so often.ice&fire said:Boonen disagrees with this thread title. Interestingly, his explanation makes sense.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/boonen-argues-that-more-vehicles-would-make-peloton-safer/
in that dense forest wouldnt catch a thingPremierAndrew said:(But there should have been a heli to catch the footage)
If the numbers would have been reduced, he might not have even been in the race to cause the crash/injuries.Arredondo said:It's absolutely horrible and disguisting what happened, but it's not evidence to reduce the number of cars and/or motos.
This was just an example of a motard who is totally unfit to serve as a motard. It was an individual mistake, not a consequence of a bigger problem imo.
I was at the first 2 stages of the Women's Tour of California and the motorbikes seemed exactly the same. They look and sound the same, so I don't know if that will change with the men's race, but they certainly aren't any smaller. Most had 2 guys on them. Still going to be a major problem if they collide with a bicycle.Lequack said:They're going to be using electric motorbikes at tour of California that starts today. Still not the solution but they're supposed to be much less bulky.
Source:
http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/tour-california-use-electric-motos-stage-six-time-trial-326221
Yeah apparently they will only use it for the TT stage, according to the article. So I guess in the women's race they were using the regular bikes.benzwire said:I was at the first 2 stages of the Women's Tour of California and the motorbikes seemed exactly the same. They look and sound the same, so I don't know if that will change with the men's race, but they certainly aren't any smaller. Most had 2 guys on them. Still going to be a major problem if they collide with a bicycle.Lequack said:They're going to be using electric motorbikes at tour of California that starts today. Still not the solution but they're supposed to be much less bulky.
Source:
http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/tour-california-use-electric-motos-stage-six-time-trial-326221