Cycling-Pidcock calls for time trial bike safety after Bernal crash
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[January 27, 2022] (Reuters)
- Ineos Grenadiers rider Tom Pidcock
said elite cyclists need safer ways to train on time trial bikes
after team mate Egan Bernal suffered severe injuries in an accident
in Bogota on Monday.
Colombian Bernal, who won the 2019 Tour de France and last year's
Giro d'Italia, had neurosurgery hours after slamming into a
stationery bus. He fractured his vertebra, right femur, right
patella and suffered chest trauma and a punctured lung.
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Pidcock broke his collarbone in a crash on a time trial bike while
training in Andorra last year and said that the position of the
rider on the bike did not help with manoeuvrability on public roads.
"Positions are getting more and more extreme and we spend more time
trying to hold these positions," Olympic mountain bike champion
Pidcock told the BBC. "You don't necessarily see where you're
going."
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Tom Pidcock of Britain in action. REUTERS/Matthew Childs
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Riders on time trial bikes keep their heads lowered
and arms tucked in to help with speed and aerodynamics.
"It's evident now where it's getting quite
dangerous," Pidcock said.
"I don't think we need to stop progressing, but think about how we
can train in a safer way and try and mitigate these crashes."
(Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter
Rutherford)
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