They’re going like bats out of Hades and someone touched wheels with another rider and tons of people go down. The guy in yellow (the race leader) Cancellara broke 2 vertebra in the wreck and quit the race that night (after finishing the ride in a ton of pain). They’ve had several wrecks and the leader yesterday broke his collarbone and had to abandon as well. War of attrition this tour.
I was racing in a pack when some one took out the guy behind me that cause him to fall and shove his handle bars through my back wheel taking me down.
I guess I bounced and got run over I don’t remember anything of the crash except the handle bars going through my wheel.
My helmet was shattered, hundreds of dollars of damage to my bike, lots and lots of road rash a trip to the ER. Lost a few days of work.
I felt I was lucky not to have more damage the speed was 22mph when it happed.
A few years before in the same race one of leading pack got taken out and died due to neck injuries. they were most likely doing close to 35mph on a slight down hill.