Bbox team time trial crash

The gap never went past much more than a dozen seconds and about 15 km later the four were caught by a small group, with all the favourites assembled together. Gilbert made his his second move, but was unable to get away. After the Molenberg, the final climb of the day, the front group of five was finally brought back. Gilbert explained later that one team really put the stamp on the race today. Fourth place [for Greg van Avermaet] is not bad. Chavanel explained his reasons for dedicating himself to Tom Boonen.

I didn't place! It is important to intiate firm countersteering- to keep the right trajectory and proper line. As the rider nears the apex a single apex corner and has the need to turn more sharply to keep from running wide or off in the turn, the rider turned in too early.

A gradually, early turn in has the rider following a parabolic path, a wide arc at first that tightens until maximum lean or turning is reached near the apex. Turn in slightly later but quicker and the rider follows a more circular path that requires less lean angle but reaches the apex sooner and is able to hold the arc longer.

Today, those 4 Bbox rides cost their team precious time — in a race against the clock, seconds and as it turned out, hundredths of a second enormously count. If have already watched it, then you may or may not understand how it happened. Regardless, Schleck was extremely fortunate not to be seriously injured or worse. Schlecks crash actually began a minute or so up the road before he actually lost control of his bicycle. This analysis will preclude any mechanical fault and focus on rider-induced incidents only — and by all indications, the Schleck crash seemed to be just that — rider induced.

As Schleck and Markus Fothen are descending, notice how both riders turn in too early, as most all cyclists do, and is most common in the pro peleton.

The difference is that Fothen manages to keep his vision further up the road than Schleck did. Also, Fothen did not panic at the high entry speed into the corner. Apparently, Schleck from watching the video perceived his corner entry speed too high, and thought he would not make the corner — so he unclipped his right foot, and most likely was on the binders to slow himself down. But, braking is actually the last thing you want to do when you blow a corner.

Braking also inhibits steering input — too much front brake while steering, and the front end will wash out. Too much rear braking destabilizes both the front and the rear of the bike.

As Schleck leans more and more into the turn, his perception of where the apex was — is farther up than he anticipated. He then realizes that he is in too hot — too soon, and tries to scrub off some speed, but makes what could have been — fatal mistakes. The video is not clear enough to tell, nor is the angle of the video conclusive to see if his eyes veered off course. It is important to intiate firm countersteering- to keep the right trajectory and proper line.

As the rider nears the apex a single apex corner and has the need to turn more sharply to keep from running wide or off in the turn, the rider turned in too early. A gradually, early turn in has the rider following a parabolic path, a wide arc at first that tightens until maximum lean or turning is reached near the apex.

Turn in slightly later but quicker and the rider follows a more circular path that requires less lean angle but reaches the apex sooner and is able to hold the arc longer. Today, those 4 Bbox rides cost their team precious time — in a race against the clock, seconds and as it turned out, hundredths of a second enormously count. The 95 year old race event creates massive interest from the international media, as it is broadcast on TV in countries. The race brings in representatives from 75 radio stations in 25 countries and over newspapers, photographers and media from 26 countries in total.

The Tour involves shuttling, accommodating and feeding over 4, people each and every day for the full 23 days 21 days of racing plus two rest days A total of 2, vehicles will be following the race, including race director with support, team vehicles, medical and general support. Then there is the matter of the huge, dedicated, fanatical crowds that line the routes for three solid weeks.

The edition of the Tour will see the competing cyclists span about 2, miles, visit 34 towns, pass through municipalities and make stops in a total of six countries- Monaco, France, Andorra, Spain, Switzerland and Italy.

Each and every town in every country will feel the effects of the Tour from spectators, media and team personnel in the way of traffic jams, long lines, and crowded streets- but most importantly; money spent. Aiding the ASO in France will be the French police and emergency services, who will direct and assist all the French municipalities in dealing with needed highway repairs, road signs, safety barriers and the planting of yellow flowers in all of the prevailing open spaces.

The cost of these operations is approximately three and a half million euros- with technical costs accounting for over two million euros and the rest spent on miscellaneous items including, communications and local ancillary supporting events. On the financial side, along with the promotion of tourism in each city and town there will be a substantial increase in the traffic and flow of people in and out of restaurants, hotels and merchant shops.

The subsequent impact of the large increase in traffic will spur positive economic upshots for all commercial merchants involved. The changes we had to make earlier were already not in our favour.

Sign up to the Cyclingnews Newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time. For more information about how to do this, and how we hold your data, please see our privacy policy. Group 3 Created with Sketch.

Cyclingnews The World Centre of Cycling.