stronz
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| 04/22/2016 12:10 PM |
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http://velonews.competitor.com/2016/04/news/road/felline-flips-over-bars-in-amstel-neutral-start_402810 |
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zootracer
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| 04/22/2016 12:25 PM |
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| Last thing I read about this incident is that they think he was trying to remove a shard of glass from his tire and his hand got stuck between the front brake and the fork, which caused the wheel to stop turning. |
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stronz
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| 04/22/2016 12:31 PM |
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| apparently did a total face plant. Hope he is OK - skull fracture sounds pretty nasty -- also lucky he didnt loose a finger |
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Dale
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| 04/22/2016 03:34 PM |
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Paging retro-grouches who used those old wire bail things that swept the tyres of thorns, glass shards and bits of road debris.
Bet he wishes he had Grant Peterson website handy before this endo. |
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79pmooney
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| 04/22/2016 03:43 PM |
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Didn't he get the memo? You always reach in front of the brake/fork or brake/seatstay (and immediately in front of the seatstay if your bike's rear end is as tight as my race bike was).
Just basic stuff. Racers lose critical training time doing face plants and fewer fingers messes up shifting.
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SideBySide
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| 04/22/2016 03:49 PM |
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| That was ugly. |
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vtguy
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| 04/22/2016 04:44 PM |
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| Maybe I'm just foolhardy, but I've been wiping my road bike tires off with my fingers while riding for close to 40-years with nary an incident. I also frequently go a full season without a flat. |
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longslowdistance
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| 04/22/2016 04:58 PM |
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| There was an amazingly opinionated thread on the prior version of this forum with many posters claiming with certainty that wiping tires does not prevent flats, ever. Astonishing to me. |
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Orange Crush
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| 04/22/2016 10:28 PM |
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What Ben said.
Fingers vtguy? I suppose you mean gloves. Without gloves this is as much a fool's errand as Feline's stunt. I stopped wiping tires when I went gloveless. |
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Master50
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| 04/23/2016 03:38 PM |
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I got a broken collar bone, a new helmet, minor concussion, and a big dose of embarrassment in a very similar way I had just come off the group to cool down and was riding pretty slow up this hill near the back of the University. I noticed the D ring on my quick release was sticking out instead of parallel to the frame. Yup I bent over to adjust it while moving. I guess I wobbled or something but I put my hand against the spokes and it wedged between the spokes and the fork. the rest looked like that video, I suppose, but much slower. |
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79pmooney
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| 04/23/2016 10:22 PM |
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Posted By Orange Crush on 04/22/2016 10:28 PM
What Ben said.
Fingers vtguy? I suppose you mean gloves. Without gloves this is as much a fool's errand as Feline's stunt. I stopped wiping tires when I went gloveless.
Actually, OC, as a poor racer riding sew-ups on all my wheels, I used to always wipe my tires with my fingers. I wanted to know immediately what was on my tires. Cuts? I healed. My tires wouldn't without at least an hour and a half of labor.
Ben
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longslowdistance
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| 04/24/2016 07:51 PM |
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| I use fingers, too. Never realized what an outlier I am. |
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Nick A
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| 04/25/2016 06:02 AM |
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Shoot, I'll take a thorn prick in my finger (and have) before a flat any day.
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zootracer
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| 04/26/2016 10:32 AM |
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I think that the sweeping the tires with a gloved hand comes back to the days when a lot of us used sew-ups. Back then, I carried one spare sew-up. Which meant if I had two flats, I was screwed. There were no cell phones, so it was a long walk to a phone or depending on the ride from a friendly motorist. I remember cutting my spare sew-up and luckily it occurred right next to a phone booth. I called my wife, but it was a long wait. The new age clinchers ride nice and you can pack a couple of spare tubes plus a tire patch kit. I stopped sweeping my tires for foreign objects. If I run over some glass and I think it's bad enough to cut my tire I will stop and check them. I ride in those little star thistle thorn county and there is no way to feel for them. Hard enough to even find them to pull them out of a tire casing.
Thus I have jinxed myself for sure, however I did not mention the "F" word....
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stronz
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| 04/27/2016 11:24 AM |
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| I used to sweep/wipe while riding. Once I jammed a finger between seattube and rear wheel and another time I drove small nail into the tire. Flat ensued. Both experiences were sufficiently unpleasant that I have stopped. I do clean the tires between rides tho |
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