{"id":199661,"date":"2025-08-18T18:35:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=199661"},"modified":"2025-08-18T18:35:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:35:56","slug":"opinion-a-modest-proposal-on-rider-safety-protect-the-riders-by-protecting-the-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2025\/08\/18\/opinion-a-modest-proposal-on-rider-safety-protect-the-riders-by-protecting-the-riders\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: A Modest Proposal on Rider Safety: Protect the Riders by\u2026 Protecting the Riders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This has been a truly exciting year in cycling, particularly for the Tour de France, and the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (TdFFaZ). These were exciting, suspenseful, dramatic sporting events that raised the bar for future Grand Tours. And they were fast, very fast. The 2025 Tour de France was the fastest in the race&#8217;s history, with the winner, Tadej Poga\u010dar, averaging 42.849 km\/h. The previous record was held by the 2022 race, with an average speed of 42.107 km\/h. Unsurprisingly, this year\u2019s edition was also the fastest TdFFaZ of all time, with French winner Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot achieving an average speed of 39.065 km\/h, compared to the previous record, set last year, of 38.602 km\/h.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This increase in racing speeds has had the inevitable consequences: more crashes, serious injuries and deaths in the peloton. An amateur named Fred Sirvalo calculated the relationship between average race speed and number of injuries per kilometre from 2014 to 2024, drew a graph and posted it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/peloton\/comments\/1c1415a\/world_tour_injuries_per_race_kilometre_by_average\/\">Reddit.<\/a> According to his research and calculations, as average speeds increased from 40kp\/h to nearly 43kp\/h in that period, injuries in races increased nearly threefold. As Sirvalo writes in his posting: \u201cThere seems to be something there between injuries and race speed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also inevitable has been the UCI\u2019s attempts to reduce crashes by seeking to adopt measures to reduce speeds. One measure that will soon be tested is the Maximum Gearing protocol, which will limit riders to a maximum gear ratio equivalent to 54&#215;11. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.com\/news\/the-majority-of-riders-say-that-this-is-not-the-biggest-issue-uci-to-test-gear-limits-at-races-from-august-effectively-banning-most-sram-chainsets\">Cycling Weekly<\/a>\u00a0the test is limited to the Tour of Guangxi in China at present.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal is not popular in the peloton, especially with teams that will be forced to totally revamp their setups. Q36.5 leader Tom Pidcock believes the proposal will actually produce the opposite of what it seeks to achieve. \u201cLimiting gears will only make everything more dangerous,\u201d Pidcock told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/ciclismo\/2025\/08\/06\/pidcock-debate-velocidad-me-decia-mi-hermano-seguir-asi-deberian-limitar-carbohidratos-todos.html\">Marca<\/a>. \u201cIf we&#8217;re all going at the same top speed, we&#8217;ll be closer together, and on descents, that means we&#8217;ll take up more of the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-ys-post-pinup\"><article class=\"loop-simple post-199661 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-road-cycling tag-pro-cycling tag-rider-safety tag-safety-in-pro-cycling global-categories-cycling\" data-postid=\"199661\" role=\"article\" data-post-id=\"199661\" data-word-count=\"944\" data-headline-length=\"90\" data-category=\"Road cycling\" data-global-category=\"Cycling\" data-author=\"Siegfried Mortkowitz\" data-published=\"2025-08-18T18:35:56+00:00\" data-published-day=\"Monday\">\n    <div class=\"entry-thumbnail article-thumbnail\" content=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/03\/Tour-de-France-Peloton-profimedia-0708722804-CVR-150x150.webp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2025\/08\/18\/opinion-a-modest-proposal-on-rider-safety-protect-the-riders-by-protecting-the-riders\/\" class=\"image-holder\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/03\/Tour-de-France-Peloton-profimedia-0708722804-CVR.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/03\/Tour-de-France-Peloton-profimedia-0708722804-CVR.webp 990w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/03\/Tour-de-France-Peloton-profimedia-0708722804-CVR-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/03\/Tour-de-France-Peloton-profimedia-0708722804-CVR-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/03\/Tour-de-France-Peloton-profimedia-0708722804-CVR-400x267.webp 400w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/03\/Tour-de-France-Peloton-profimedia-0708722804-CVR-272x182.webp 272w\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 1200px) 300px, (min-width: 768px) 25vw, 100vw\" alt=\"opinion-a-modest-proposal-on-rider-safety-protect-the-riders-by-protecting-the-riders\"\/><\/a><\/div>    <div class=\"entry-meta\">\n        <a class=\"label label-secondary post-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/category\/road-cycling\/\" title=\"Road cycling\">Road cycling<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"entry-details\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2025\/08\/18\/opinion-a-modest-proposal-on-rider-safety-protect-the-riders-by-protecting-the-riders\/\" class='entry-title-wrapper'>\n            <h3 class=\"entry-title\"><span>Opinion: A Modest Proposal on Rider Safety: Protect the Riders by\u2026 Protecting the Riders<\/span><\/h3>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>Red Bull\u2013Bora\u2013hansgrohe\u2019s head of engineering, Dan Bigham, agreed, saying that the measure would be ineffective because riders don\u2019t spend much time at top speed. \u201cIt\u2019ll impact on as little as 0.01 per cent of a race and will arguably reduce speeds by no more than 0.5km\/h,\u201d he said. \u201cAll of this to change the entire groupset design? It really doesn\u2019t seem effective to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A UCI proposal on handlebar widths in the women\u2019s peloton has also come up against stiff opposition, with Pidcock and others calling the measure a smokescreen. The conversation about rider safety grew urgent after the death of the popular Swiss rider Gino M\u00e4der on a high-speed descent in the 2023 Tour de Suisse and became white-hot following the fatal crash of 18-year-old Muriel Furrer in the women\u2019s junior road race at the world championships in Zurich, Switzerland, in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Furrer\u2019s death moved the UCI to implement a new safety measure. According to reports, Furrer lay alone for almost an hour and a half before she was discovered at the side of the road and rushed to thehospital. As a result, all riders from Junior to Elite at this year\u2019s UCI Road World Championships in Rwanda will be wearing GPS tracking devices. This is a decent enough measure, especially in races that are not televised and are sparsely attended, such as the Junior races.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, a measure that enables medical help to be brought to a fallen rider as quickly as possible is an excellent solution. Here\u2019s a suggestion to make it even more effective: Put the tracker in the helmet and add a function that detects shocks to the head severe enough to cause concussions. Rugby has such a device in every player\u2019s mouthguard. When a collision or fall involving the head or neck is signalled by the device as hard enough to cause a concussion, the player is taken off the field for 10 minutes to be examined. If there is no concussion, they are allowed to return to the field. Obviously, it\u2019s impractical to remove a rider from the race to examine them, but the rider could be examined afterwards and appropriate steps taken if needed.<\/p>\n<p>I propose that the concept behind such a measure is the direction the UCI should be taking: Protect the rider from crashes by\u2026 protecting the rider when they crash. There will always be crashes in cycling, at high speeds, low speeds, at all speeds. In fact, according to cyclists, low-speed crashes can be as dangerous as those at high speed. Moreover, while better nutrition and evolving technology have made riders stronger and bikes faster, the main reason for crashes these days is the new style of racing. Riders are more aggressive from kilometre zero, and there has been a definite increase in rider recklessness in the peloton. You can control that somewhat by issuing yellow cars and fines, as the UCI has done, but that won\u2019t eliminate it. Not only has order speed changed, but so has racing etiquette.<\/p>\n<p>To repeat: There will always be crashes in racing. So perhaps the focus should be on finding the means to protect riders when they do crash. My proposal is to initiate a generously funded programme to develop new rider equipment and kits capable of protecting riders from serious injury when they crash. For example, to reduce the severity of road rash, riders could wear jerseys, shorts and leggings made from a lightweight and durable fabric, such as one developed by Swiss fabric maker Schoeller Textiles. It developed a method of printing lightweight, breathable fabrics embedded with minute ceramic dots. That includes an ultra-lightweight summer fabric that might be perfect for cyclists. As far as I know, it hasn\u2019t yet been put on the market. Clearly, current essential features of a rider\u2019s kit \u2013 a full range of motion, strategic ventilation, breathability and moisture-wicking \u2013 must be retained. But given the current state of fabric technology, that should be possible.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most important, and probably hardest to implement, would be to add lightweight but robust padding to certain vulnerable parts of a cyclist\u2019s body, such as the shoulders, which are probably the most often injured part of a rider\u2019s anatomy, and the spine. I\u2019m not a scientist or researcher, but it seems to me that something similar to Dyneema\u00ae, a flexible fibre light enough to float on water while being 15 times stronger than steel, might be a solution. It is used by Dyneema to make soft body armour for soldiers and police officers who need lightweight and flexible protection. Which is exactly what riders need.<\/p>\n<p>I know these solutions could reduce a rider\u2019s aerodynamics and add 500 grams (to pull a number out of my hat) to their weight, which would slow them down a bit. But isn\u2019t that the goal of UCI\u2019s unpopular measures? Something does have to be done, and providing on-body protection for riders seems to be the least inimical to the rider\u2019s mission: to ride as fast as possible. And so what if the average speed of next year\u2019s Tour de France is \u201conly\u201d 42.449kp\/h? It won\u2019t reduce the way the riders ride or dampen the excitement and drama of the race. But it would definitely reduce the number and severity of injuries suffered in crashes, which should be the goal of all new safety measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a truly exciting year in cycling, particularly for the Tour de France, and the Tour de France [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":192261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[2720,8648,8430],"global-categories":[3366],"class_list":["post-199661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling","tag-pro-cycling","tag-rider-safety","tag-safety-in-pro-cycling","global-categories-cycling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Opinion: A Modest Proposal on Rider Safety: Protect the Riders by\u2026 Protecting the Riders - \u0160koda We Love Cycling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This has been a truly exciting year in cycling, particularly for the Tour de France, and the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (TdFFaZ). 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