There are remarkably few minority riders in the upper tiers of professional cycling. For example, there are only five Black riders among the 743-rider World Tour, less than 1 percent; and there was only one Black rider in the 2020 Tour de France.
New research published in the Journal of Transport & Health shows that there’s a better way to design railway crossings and it might save cyclists a lot of pain. Let’s take a look at the jughandle design up-close.
