Wiggins in hospital after crash with van

[Ted Striker]

Well this thread has taken a predictable turn since I last looked at it

Maybe if the Van driver did the same...

 

[DaveCinzano]

The AA's president Edmund King said: "...We need to break down the 'two-tribe' mentality on the roads and co-exist in harmony."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/nov/08/bradley-wiggins-witnesses-shock-collision

 

[The Boy]

Apparently Shane Sutton has also been run down too. According to twatter anyways.

 

[bi0boy]

Apparently Shane Sutton has also been run down too. According to twatter anyways.

Brain injury according to BBC

 

[The Boy]

Brain injury according to BBC

Think this might have happened at the end of my road. Unless there were two cyclists knocked off their bikes on the A6 this morning. By the sounds of the traffic diversions it might be a bad one.

 

[tommers]

Shit.

 

[Manter]

Apparently Shane Sutton has also been run down too. According to twatter anyways.

Yup, being reported by been and guardian online.

It's the Australians I tell you....

 

[Onket]

amazing how a thread about a cyclist being hit by a vehicle which failed to give way on joining the carriageway from a petrol station can get to 'yes well they all ride dangerously these cyclists' on the first page.

It hasn't.

Not in the first page, anyway. Not read whats been said since, yet.

 

[twistedAM]

Where would competative cyclists train if not on roads? I live near Richmond Park so thats handy for people who live around here but its pretty unique and there are still cars around.

You could try deepest rural north Wales. Oh hold on a minute, that's where I was riding downhill about 40mph and some fucking farmer had swung a gate across the road.

When I rode a lot, I was often getting hit by Cheshire pensioners or having to take evasive action and ride into the ditch.

 

[gentlegreen]

Dave Brailsford talks crap on 5 Live ....

 

[fen_boy]

What did he say that was crap?

 

[Ponyutd]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/nov/08/bradley-wiggins-witnesses-shock-collision

I fail to see what Jimmy Saville and Noel Gallagher have to do with this thread?

 

[Geri]

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[gentlegreen]

What did he say that was crap?

Usual bollocks about wearing a helmet etc. Somewhat patronising to cyclists - no mention of the lamentable way so many people drive.
Given the photo of the serious lights Wiggo had on his mountain bike, I would guess it's a pretty clear-cut case of "without due care and attention".
And Wiggins isn't just an athlete, he grew up cycling in London. And he was off to a meeting so probably was taking it easy.

 

[fen_boy]

Brailsford didn't come across like that to me at all. I thought it was pretty sensible stuff. The only contentious point is the helmet stuff I guess, but he wasn't suggesting it should be compulsory. Even then I think suggesting people wear a helmet is pretty good advice, he's hardly going to say anything else.

 

[Nigel Irritable]

It seems he's been a bit lucky with the injuries and may just have suffered bruising. I see that the papers have been stirring up a "controversy" about him giving a photographer the finger when he was arriving back at his house.

 

[gabi]

 

[gabi]

good finger extension there

 

[tendril]

Sure don't look like he was on his all singing all dancing light as a feather racing machine.

 

[Nigel Irritable]

Sure don't look like he was on his all singing all dancing light as a feather racing machine.

He was on a mountain bike. It's probably a very nice mountain bike though.