LordCBH
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I’m down with that. Horses take big shits.
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Spectator with sign causes massive Tour De France pile up
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I’m down with that. Horses take big shits.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Big difference between a football game or a nascar race is it's a big competition within a stadium or track. And golf, you can follow the golfer hole to hole.
Tour de France is people lining the road and seeing cyclists whiz by in 2 seconds. Not much of a spectacle to me.
ArtemisClydeFrog
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LordCBH
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Virt McPolygon
Banned
Maybe the sport sucks if one person alone can take out nearly all participants without even trying.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
There was? Missed that.
Hawking Radiation
Member
Jerry rig a large funnel and burlap sack to the horse's rear. Problem solved.
Wouldn't need to dismount for a cleanup on aisle 9
Hawking Radiation
Member
How exactly do you propose the sporting body cover 183.5km of roadside to protect the riders from fans?
StreetsofBeige
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j0hnnix
Member
This helps when football season comes around. Always said eagle fans can eat shit. I guess I wasn't wrong.
Hawking Radiation
Member
Haha there's actually people defending the woman and blaming the tournament organizers for the pile up.
The stupidity levels of some is downright comical
The stupidity levels of some is downright comical
Virt McPolygon
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Read again. I blame the sport for sucking by having dozens of bike riders race while being inches from each other. Even if a spectator didn't take down all those people, a rider in the in the front wiping out would cause the same, laughable pileup. Humans should be avoiding domino effect scenarios, ffs.Haha there's actually people defending the woman and blaming the tournament organizers for the pile up.
The stupidity levels of some is downright comical
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Gee I wonder what would happen in basketball if they let spectators out in the court and someone accidentally trips a player about to jump. Chances at least 2 other guys go down and that's 30% of the players on the match.
smh
Let the riders attach spikes to their wheels like war chariots of course!
A little risky to the other bikers but hey, it would make the race WAY more popular!
Great Hair
Banned
sankt-Antonio
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That’s the strategy aspect of competitive cycling. In the Peloton (large group of riders close by) the people in front do up to 30% more work as others behind them are in their slip stream.
Riding alone for 200k will destroy you, in the peloton it’s riskier but much more energy efficient.
It gets really interesting in ‘of center’ wind conditions as a team can form a specific formation where only they benefit from the draft while blocking the width of the road so no one else can pass.
what you want is time trials only rally sport style but they are much less strategic and boring.
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strange headache
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Congratulations, you just found out what a peloton is.
If you have no clue about cycling, maybe don't come in here defending harebrained fools who literally put other people's lives at risk for no reason whatsoever only to cowardly disappear after realizing what damage they have caused.
MastaKiiLA
Member
I have to assume she never watched a bike race before, because the camera bikes are usually closely followed by riders. On no day could the length of that sign not be considered to be hazardous to riders who are passing by. She was looking at the camera, and somehow missed a massive group of cyclists who take up the entire road. What a complete moron. Well, not a complete moron, because she managed to flee the scene without anyone detaining her. I assume/hope someone that knows her will report her for being a public nuisance here.
Facism
Member
Don't be like that, man. They've got every right to be there and all you're doing is endangering lives and putting yourself at risk, too.
Hawking Radiation
Member
The thing that pisses me off most is directly after the crash the TV cameras are still focused on the pile of riders on the ground rather than picking up the woman that caused the crash.
Had some of the TV cameras focused their attention on her, I doubt her getaway would have been so easy.
Now apparently she's fled the country which makes no sense. If she's missing and they are looking for her and they know she's fled the country then she's no longer missing ?
Raven117
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ArtemisClydeFrog
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SireSmogMurk
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Oftentimes there is a perfectly good sidewalk that no cars drive upon what-so-ever for cyclists to bike upon. Where do these idiots choose to ride their bikes... in the middle of the high way where the big metal boxes travel at high speeds. They put themselves at risk and slow and disrupt the flow of traffic putting others at risk and more often then not there is a perfectly good sidewalk to the side of the road. They are selfish attention seekers who have no one but themselves to blame when the worst happens.
I like biking and do it very often on my mountain bike both for fun and light shopping. Been biking for almost thirty years now and I would never consider riding my bike in the road the cars drive on. People who do that are just stupid and tempting fate, but go ahead... take for granted that mechanical box travelling at high speeds is being piloted by someone that is aware, competent, sober, having a good day, not on their cell phone, not distracted...
People who ride their bikes in the roads that cars travel put far more trust in strangers then I ever would. I wonder how they can do it...
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
I… I can’t.
I don’t wish her ill, but there has to be some consequences. People are becoming too self centered often causing irreparable damage.
What happened at the tour is just one of many examples, but there are tons. Look up for ”selfie accidents”.
I’ll post one without gore.
This culture of doing anything for attention or social media points is one of the worst things to come out of our generation.
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Haint
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They want to sue her for everything she has and will ever have and expose her on social and national media so she's never allowed to work anywhere but a hidden janitors closet in her life. Sorry, but there's no reality where I'm going to support that over some bruised knees and egos cause a girl wanted her grandparents to see her holding a sign. Maybe the equivalent of a traffic ticket fine or picking up trash as community service would be appropriate, but nothing close to what is being demanded though. WRT your example, I would suggest that exhibit not hang subjectively valued art on a flimsy unanchored homemade box that guests can apparently walk behind. No, I don't want that person sued for $1,000,000 or whatever they claim a bunch of glued banana peels and dirty socks are worth. Props for unironic use of self centered in a cyclist thread.
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poppabk
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Well we had a good run, but I think we finally reached the point where there are enough members on the board that there is a defence force for everything again.
Facism
Member
can't speak for where you live, but in the UK we can't ride on the sidewalks usually. Can pick up an on the spot fine and we'd be infringing on a pedestrian's right of way and safety.
triplestation
Member
what a fucking dickweed
i hope that rider is okay he could have gotten fucked up his neck was open for a hundred oncoming bikes
i hope that rider is okay he could have gotten fucked up his neck was open for a hundred oncoming bikes
SireSmogMurk
Banned
I'm glad my ancestors left europe.
poodaddy
Member
There's a bike lane. If you're in my lane on a bicycle, and there's a bike lane, that means you should be drawn and quartered.
Fuck em.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
The only people who want to destroy her life are social media zealots. And yes, a fair punishment would be community service for at least a year.
And no, she didn’t only bruise some egos, she literally ended the career of multiple cyclists who fractured their wrists. The wrists have tons of small bones and one you fracture them you cannot ride a bike again unless you want to lose mobility of your fingers. No punishment to this woman will bring those careers back, but she definitely needs to own up to her mistake; if she was to do it, I bet she would get a redemption arc since reality TV loves those stories.
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Ribi
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this is the correct take. Biking isnt even a real sports its like the olympics shit that people get exicted for while they wait for the next episode of days of our lives to come on at 1pm. Fuck them bikers. RUN GIRL!
It was used for the TV edit but the first story is true, they just took the digital edit off for the TV version.
The sign was always "Everybody", changed to the N word for the full release, reverted back to "Everybody" for edited versions.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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I'm not after a lynch mob here but do you realise how hard they work and train to even compete at that level? Just for an idiot to hold up a sign and fuck up years of training, sacrifice and expense. SMH.
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ManaByte
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niveaformen
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I don't like the sport and I dislikes cyclists riding on the sidewalk/footpath, which has nothing to do with this race, so it's obvious they deserved it
Hawking Radiation
Member
Examples need to be made of out of control spectators who endanger the lives of professional athletes with their reckless behavior.
Not only did this women hospitalize a few riders but ended the tour altogether for some, caused who knows how much damage to their bikes and also disrupted the event.
If you think community service is appropriate punishment for the chaos she caused then you are far gone. Or how about I come around your house and fuck up your personal shit with a billy club and then offer to mow your lawn for a week or put down a $20 for the damages. Seems fair right?
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StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
100% correct.
There's a difference between a drunk fan running onto a field for laughs, and this person who ran from the scene, caused a major piled up, injured cyclists and ruined the outcome of the stage.
It's like someone at a race car event, jumps onto the track and cars wreck avoiding to hit him.
This person should be in jail no problem. Even worse, the asshole bolted from the scene.
Haint
Member
It's a girl holding a sign, not someone with a billy club smashing up a house. An equivalent analogy would be me riding a bike around the neighborhood, and my neighbor doing something innocuous too close to the street (mowing, playing ball), unintentionally causes me to crash. Yeah, I'd be fine with a lawn cut or $20. A gust of wind, puddle of animal piss, or bird shitting on their face are more likely to take these guys out than a girl with a Grandma sign. Reckless and out of control, come'on man. This was an accident like any of the other numerous wipeouts they'll encounter in the race, are they gonna sue and imprison the rider that caused the later pile up for peddling too much? Pretty sure they don't pay for bikes or any gear, it's presumably all sponsored.
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Cyberpunkd
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Sorry, but your example is a BS - there is a reason why bikes are not allowed on sidewalks. Same as a car is to a bike, so is a bike going down the sidewalk to any pedestrians. Plus you have kids running around.
I assume you are in the US? It might shock you that in Europe with good public transport we don't worship cars and build quite a bit of bike lanes and even shorten the car lanes for a dedicated bike lane, as in this example:
This is one of the main streets in Paris, where the town council outright axed the cars and made the road 100% cyclable:
Don't even get me started on the example of Amsterdam, Copenhagen or Scandinavian countries - cities there are basically build for bikes.
I am a big supporter of bikes and green energy transport, but you also need to keep the balance - it is routine for a bike in Paris to run the red light, as well as bike against the traffic even when not allowed. In the past 3 months I had a bike almost hit a stroller with a my kid in it 2 times.
Burger
Member
Wrong. I guess the laws in Dickhole Alabama may be different but in most civilized parts of the world a cyclist is permitted to use most roads. Cycle lane or not.
ArtemisClydeFrog
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Yeah, obviously there's dickhead bikers but the far bigger group of overall shitbags are truck owners and motorcycle riders. wAtCh fOr MoToRcYcLeS they have plastered all over their minivan and then when it's time to ride their neon-colored shitty Suzuki they're all over the fucking place, doing 100+ mph down roads with 45mph speed limits, swerving in and out of lanes without using their turn signals, doing the "single lane swerve" where they go from the left side of their lane to the right side back and forth, rolling through stop signs and stop lights, going on the shoulder of the road to cut past everyone. Lookin dumb af with that green mohawk fiber coming out of the top of their helmet.
HoodWinked
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this is kind of the realm of the risky stupid dude so seeing a chick do it just makes it more interesting.
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AJUMP23
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^ from Alabama.
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