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Originally Posted by RonW87
Umm, nope:
http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/features/tdu02c40.shtml
"Anyone got a spare C40? Spectator saves Rogers' day
By Gerard Knapp In Adelaide
Adam Pyke came to the Jacob's Creek Tour Down Under to watch the cycling, but ended up saving the day for the new leader of the race on general classification.
Pyke, 29, was standing on the side of the road just half a kilometre into the climb up Mengler's Hill, when only 10 metres away, Michael Rogers came to a screeching halt after a tangle with a motorcycle had ripped his rear derailleur off the back of his bike and pushed it into his rear wheel. Cursing loudly, Rogers dismounted and looked down at his bike to assess the damage and realised he wasn't going any further on that machine, so he threw the blue, Mapei team-issue Colnago C40 onto the ground in disgust.
"So Michael's taken one look at my bike and he's taken off," Pyke said. In an uncanny coincidence, Pyke is the proud owner of a 56cm centre-to-top Colnago C40, which uses the latest Shimano SPD-R pedals. Oddly enough, it was the same size as Rogers' bike - "or close enough" - and also uses the same type of pedals (see picture)." |
you are partially correct; racers cannot take bikes/wheels from spectators, but this rule is not always enforced, as it would generate really bad publicity
top of my head, I recall another rider taking a bike at a more recent edition of Tour down Under; also, someone took a wheel at Tour of California a while back (think it was Julich)