What Happens When Dogs Stray Onto Cycling Courses
By Jessica | Permalink |
3 comments | July 18th, 2007 | Trackback
After Sunday’s demolition of the T-Mobile squad, from Linus Gerdemann losing the yellow jersey to team leader Michael Rogers’ abandoning of the Tour with a separated shoulder, it seemed like the team should have used up all its bad luck, right? Well, apparently not.
Via the Lanterne Rouge blog, we have this photo sequence of T-Mobile’s Marcus Burghardt colliding with a dog during yesterday’s stage. I’m with Nancy - why some stupid pet owners let their dog off a leash or out of an enclosure when a gigantic herd of bicycles was rushing past is beyond me. It appears that both Burghardt and the dog were okay - Burghardt probably had braked hard enough to keep the dog from really getting hit too hard - and that his bike was the only casualty of the incident.
Go to Nancy’s post to read her quips about the obligatory jokes which must be inserted here. I giggled in spite of myself.
Now, if the rest of the T-Mobile squad can get through this Tour without further mishaps, it’ll be a victory the men in mauve should celebrate mightily.
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I agree, Ashton, the wheel was carbon and folded immediately. Burghardt also hit the dog with the widest part of the wheel, not just the edge of the tire - and managed to avoid stepping on the dog on his “dismount,” too. All in all, it was lucky for everyone, it seems. And even one of my local news stations picked up the video: http://www.kgw.com/video/sports-index.html?nvid=159514&shu=1
Ha! Thanks for stopping by!! Poor doggie….
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The dog probably also benefited greatly from the composition of that wheel. I think it was some sort of light-weight carbon (I told you I was no expert!) that collapsed on impact. That collapse probably absorbed most of the energy of the impact, sort of like the non-rigid crash barriers used on many high speed roads at dangerous points.