{"id":197527,"date":"2024-12-19T13:42:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T13:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=197527"},"modified":"2024-12-19T13:42:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T13:42:14","slug":"cycling-2024-the-year-of-the-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/12\/19\/cycling-2024-the-year-of-the-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycling 2024: The Year of the Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

The year that is now slinking toward the exit was an exciting period for road racing, with astonishing performances by V\u00e9lo d’Or\u00a0winner Tadej Poga\u010dar\u00a0and V\u00e9lo d’Or\u00a0runner-up Remco Evenepoel, both of whom achieved historic successes. But for me, the sport was marked by a series of serious crashes that distorted the season by sidelining two of the sport\u2019s superstars and set in motion an occasionally acrimonious conversation about the future of road racing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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So it\u2019s fitting, really, that as the year winds down, one of the sport\u2019s greats, five-time Tour de France winner Eddy Merckx, crashed on a recreational ride near Mechelen, Belgium, and broke his hip. The 79-year-old holder of most road race victory records told HLN<\/a> that his bike slipped on wet tracks at a railway crossing. \u201cDuring my bike ride, it suddenly started to drizzle,\u201d he said. \u201cI slid away with my rear wheel. I fell right on my right thigh and knew immediately that it was a fracture.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was taken to hospital, underwent an operation and intends to get back on a bike as soon as possible. His accident came less than two weeks after Evenepoel crashed during a training ride, when the driver of a postal van opened the door in front of him, and suffered multiple fractures. He was taken to Erasmus Hospital in Anderlecht where scans revealed “fractures to his rib, right shoulder blade, and his right hand\u201d as well as \u201ccontusions on both lungs and a luxation of the clavicle,\u201d his Soudal\u2013Quick Step team said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He will not return to training until February and plans to start racing in mid-April, he told Studio Brussel<\/a> last week. That means he will miss several important one-day Classics, such as Strade Bianche and probably the Tour of Flanders, which is held in the first week of April. This crash was Evenepoel\u2019s second of the year after he came down in the Tour of the Basque Country in the mass crash that seriously injured two-time Tour winner Jonas Vingegaard and several others.<\/p>\n

These crashes have become a serious and, as I\u2019ve said, contentious topic of discussion, especially in the wake of the deaths of the popular Swiss rider Gino M\u00e4der<\/a> on a high-speed descent in the 2023 Tour de Suisse, that of Norwegian pro cyclist Andr\u00e9 Drege after crashing on a descent at this year\u2019s Tour of Austria, and that of 18-year-old Muriel Furrer who crashed on a wet descent during the Women\u2019s Junior Road Race World Championships on September 26.<\/p>\n

Clearly, riders crash for many reasons \u2013 a bad or wet road surface, carelessness or over-aggressive riding, high speeds in curves, a van door that opens, a stranger\u2019s car driven carelessly \u2013 and often are not at fault. But the constantly increasing speeds in the peloton have taken the brunt of the blame. Perhaps because this is the element that, as the Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme apparently believes, is easiest to fix.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeyond the behaviour of the athletes and the work of the organisers, it is absolutely necessary to reduce speed by appropriate measures: the riders are going too fast,\u201d Prudhomme said<\/a> at the annual general assembly of the Association of Race Organisers (AIOCC). \u201cThe faster they go, the greater the risk and the more they endanger themselves and others.\u201d<\/p>\n

EF Education\u2013EasyPost General Manager Jonathan Vaughters disagrees and took to social media to express his disagreement. \u201cIt is absolutely infuriating to me how these fat cats, who have never raced so much as a child\u2019s tricycle, turning tens of millions in profit off the backs of others, squarely throw the blame of safety issues in cycling on the riders,\u201d he wrote<\/a> on X, then added: \u201c[Riders] are highly competitive people. They are hard-wired to the bone to take life-threatening risks. Similar to F1 drivers. And like in F1, the answer is to create a safer environment around them. Because they will always push the envelope as far as it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The truth is that in this year\u2019s biggest crash, at the Tour of the Basque Country, the riders who fell had slowed down for a curve and were undone by a road surface distorted by tree roots under the asphalt. In addition, Vingegaard had flagged that particular spot in the course as unsafe six months before the race, and, apparently, nothing was done.<\/p>\n

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Regardless, the publication Escape<\/a> reported in June that, according to \u201cindustry sources,\u201d the UCI was looking into three ways to slow down the peloton, \u201ca maximum rim depth, a gearing limit, and updates to handlebar width and lever angle rules.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recently, during a press conference at the UAE training camp in Spain, Poga\u010dar also took part in this ongoing discussion, telling Escape<\/a>, \u201cEverybody wants to go faster all the time. The whole cycling world is developing like any other sport, breaking records every year and going faster and faster. Technology moves ahead, and in one way I totally understand that we cannot be stuck on a steel bike that goes 10 km per hour slower. Marketing doesn\u2019t go so well selling the bikes, the jersey, the helmets.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then made the sensible suggestion that course improvements are essential to increasing safety on the road. \u201cOrganisers are trying with new barriers on the roads. In some ways, they\u2019re really good,\u201d he said. \u201cChoosing the right roads, for me, is crucial. Not to go over speed bumps when it\u2019s 70 km per hour. Sensible finishes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Slovenian three-time Tour de France winner also pointed to the weather protocol, which can be used to shorten or abandon races when the conditions become hazardous. \u201cIt\u2019s getting used more and more, especially when there\u2019s snow or rain, or super cold, they\u2019re starting to apply it sometimes in the bigger races,\u201d he said. \u201cIn smaller races, they are still using it too [little]. Thinking of the opposite side, it\u2019s 45 degrees [Celsius] in some races, and people don\u2019t care because the car is air-conditioned. I think it\u2019s super dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

These are all sensible suggestions but, unfortunately, they appear to be low on the bucket list of race organisers. It takes a great deal of effort and expense to make a course safe. It can involve many kilometres of road resurfacing or placing protective netting on steep descents, as in Alpine skiing, or even rerouting a race or stage because of a broken surface.<\/p>\n

Who foots the bill for all that? The race organiser? The community hosting the race or stage? The UCI? Much better, and cheaper, to ask the bike manufacturers to limit the gearing and restyle the handlebars. And, of course, the manufacturers will be just too delighted to put a slower bike on the road when all their technology is geared (no pun intended) towards producing a more aerodynamic and faster product every year.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t ask riders to slow down either. They are racing for money, to support their families, and they know that they won\u2019t make more money by riding slower. There is much more money in the sport now, and speed is one of the reasons for that. It\u2019s no coincidence that cycling\u2019s global popularity has grown as the riders\u2019 speeds \u2013 and, let\u2019s face it, their risks \u2013 have increased. However, cycling is a dangerous sport, it always has been, but the danger has reached an unprecedented level, as has the sport\u2019s popularity. Again: not a coincidence.<\/p>\n

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Technology will continue to do what it always does, make bikes even faster, which means that training methods have to improve to make cyclists capable of better handling these speeds. But riders are not created equal, and some will simply not have the reflexes to deal with the high speeds.<\/p>\n

Having said that, roads will have to improve to accommodate these speeds, \u2013 this is essential. And they must be carefully inspected every year. Safety netting will have to be set up on hazardous curves and potential hazards, such as a surface that is slippery when wet or a particularly technical curve on a descent, are clearly marked in every race or stage.<\/p>\n

Still, I can imagine a day in the not-too-distant future when riders will be clad from head to toe in a light, shock-absorbent, super-flexible nanoplastic that will protect them from serious injury without restricting their movements on the bike. And\/or their bikes and helmets will be connected to the road on which they are racing via lidar, a sensor system that will enable self-driving cars to communicate with each other and with the road infrastructure.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m fairly certain that whatever the future holds, they won\u2019t be riding slower than they are today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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