Thursday, July 30, 2009

Ster Elektrotoer


This photo from Pez Cycling News is from stage 3 of this years Ster Elektrotoer in the Netherlands. Amazing photo, we can all image what happens next.

3 comments:

Apis said...

Same thing happened to Hincapie in Paris-Roubaix a few years ago. His steerer (not carbon) broke on the cobbles. I remember seeingthe pic of him sitting on the side of the road looking like he was ready to kill the person that assembled his fork.

He was running in the top 5 at that point.

Anonymous said...

Hincapie crash caused by Chris King headset?

http://www.pvdwiki.com/index.php?title=The_BEST_Headset

http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/photos/2006/apr06/roubaix06/roubaix_postbikes/Hincapie_Bike_Close_up.jpg

Anonymous said...

the latter URL:

http://tinyurl.com/y9vjoue