Road Bike Ride Gone Bad

God gawd that looked like it hurt! Is that dude ok? He landed square on his head.....did not look good. Bet he was feeling it the next day. Sheeesh!

Classic endo. That's what happens when you put a stick in the spokes. haha

Your wife's friend is beautiful.

You know what maybe he needed a neck brace.

Bike flew about 15' straight up. Dude is pretty lucky because that could have ended way, way worse. And I totally agree about the hotness of the newscaster, uber sexy fo sho.

Ouch. The news girl was hot

Jeebus Cripes that was gnarly. I've seen some guys do that by grabbing too much front brake, but never witnessed the whole stick-in-the-spokes/snapped-fork scenario

The dude that almost hit him did real good!

That was the first time I've seen a road/mtb style helmet work.

I saw that last week, that guy is lucky to be alive. Yea, that guy in the red kit has got some skills to avoid wrecking himself. Here's what I take away from that:

If you're riding that close on a fast downhill, you'd better be damned sure you trust the person who's wheel you're on. Looks like the guy with the camera ran over the debris and kicked it up. Now he might have been following some else, but at the end of the day, it could have been avoided if the person on the front avoided it. We were in a 10-rider paceline last summer on a flat section of road doing about 25, and the guy on the front took us right over a broken bottle. The guy in line in front of me blew out a front tire, and nearly ate crap. Thankfully, we were the last two in line and both survived. Again, if the person on the front had been paying attention, we wouldn't have been in that position to begin with. And yes, the news girl was hot.

I can't be the only one that laughed... Man, talk about "all of a sudden I was on my head". Not too often you see a flying W on a road bike!

Thanks for sharing Eddie!

hahaha, The wreck isn't funny, but I slowed it down to half speed to get a better look at what happened and she sounds drunk as hell now. Excellent job by the guy behind him, that was some crazy shit.

Holy Shnikeys!!

Holy crap, that was amazing. Ditto on the hot friend, FWIW

Hot friend.

What were we talking about ?

He was following super close to the guy in front of him who narrowly missed it. Hes a lucky dude.

Those roadies draft each other which is why when one crashes they all go down.

The camera looks to have been on another rider, who appears to have narrowly missed the debris. The rider who went down was looking ahead and "through" the leader, but either did not see the obstacle or determined it was best to ride directly over the top (normally a better decision than bunny hopping while in a spirited pace line).

Just one of those things, like when a startled squirrel jumped up on my approach and landed on my foot. He made about 5 revolutions before pulling the ejection handle and scurrying off.

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That news girl is a babe.

I'm surprised his shoes/pedals unclipped as well as they did.

That was unavoidable and freak. He had no time to swerve and no way was he going to bunny hop it at that speed and miss it. Whatever he ran over didn't go between the spokes either, it followed the front wheel up and around and stopped when it hit the forks. The equivalent of jamming the toe of your shoe in there - instant front wheel lock up and ejection. Even if he ran it over safely, it would have surely flew in the air and smashed the next guy hard enough to blow him off the bike. Just a freak thing.

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stick either went straight up into the spokes or jammed the tire, nothing you can do at that point. when i was a kid, this other little shitbag who i always fought with threw a towel into my back tire as i was comin down a steep hill into our little pump track which made me skid off and go facedown into the creek. next day i shoved a hefty stick into his front spokes as he was comin up the face of a small double. he pretty much did exactly that. still dont feel bad about it.