Yikes. You can find pictures of her injury through a twitter search. I don't recommend it.
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Trying not to think of Taylor Phinney and what a leg injury can do to effectively end a world-beating career.
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Ya, hopefully more of a WvA injury than a Mini Phinney injury
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Sure looked like some form of mechanical failure. Not sure how she could have ridden that out any better than she did.
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I know everything is sooooo easy from the couch, but I have to get this off my chest.
How do they decide on the placement of the padded barriers in cycling? Maybe it makes sense but I don't get it. Have you EVER seen a cyclist go straight, dead straight into a corner so that they hit the first 10 meters of barriers? I haven't. I can only imagine that almost every crash is going to be slightly pre apex to 90+% exiting the corner... and the barriers barely cover the exit.... like 2 meters of the exit of a turn. Why not take all those dozens of first entry barrier pads and place them at the exit where they will be useful? :confused::confused::confused: Does what I'm saying make sense? Or is it like this in all races for a reason I don't understand? |
Oh man.. that looks very painful. It does look like a mechanical with the front wheel.
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Never cared for Zipp wheels and even less so now.
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Yep, what you are saying is on Point and totally makes sense.
I sure hope that she can recover more like WvA and less like Phinney. Quote:
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I'm going with speed wobble for now.
Is it normal for TT'ers to take high speed corners on the aero bars instead of the handlebars? Looked like she was on the Aeros the whole time. Could that have caused speed wobble? Totally agree on padding placement. Didn't go nearly far enough through the corner. IMO padding should start just prior to the corner (looks like it did) and end past the exit; how far past depends on the curve. Better safe than sorry. Another case of rider safety compromised. |
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