Thats gotta hurt!
**Giro d’Italia **Stage 2, CATANZARO LIDO - SANTA MARIA DEL CEDRO 182 KM
A nasty crash has sent Alberto Lopez de Munain out of the race and into hospital - but his injuries are not too serious
Do ya think there was an IPOD involved?
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I like that - his injuries are not too serious?? I thought he broke 9 ribs, lost the skin off his nose and face and spent the night in intensive care?
Thats gotta hurt!
**Giro d’Italia **Stage 2, CATANZARO LIDO - SANTA MARIA DEL CEDRO 182 KM
A nasty crash has sent Alberto Lopez de Munain out of the race and into hospital - but his injuries are not too serious
Do ya think there was an IPOD involved?
From Cyclingnews.com
Alberto Lopez de Munain was diagnosed with a hydropneumothorax caused by nine broken ribs, a broken left collar bone, a broken shoulder blade, damage to the left shoulder as well as grazes and cuts to his back, knees and face. He is conscious, in a stable condition and out of immediate danger, as he is getting drainage to improve the hydropneumothorax.
Sounds kind of serious to me.
"Do ya think there was an IPOD involved? "
This is a fuckn joke, right. What does an ipod have to do with it. I’m always riding with music and I’m one of the safest riders out there. Just because you listen to music doesn’t mean that you cannot pay attention to and judge traffic. I believe that your experience and your ability to judge what cars might do next that keeps you alive on the streets. And this has nothing to do with listening to music. To me, it’s even safer to ride with music because I don’t get the crap scared out of me when some fuckn pipple covered teen asshole honks at me, or when a dog in the back of a pickup barks at me within inches of my face.
I might listen to music when I train, but I don’t ride in big groups. It’s not just poor bike handling skills that cause crashes, it doesn’t take much until something happens when 50 people ride within inches of one another.
And last, I hope that Lopez de Munain will recover soon.
He was trolling and got one.
Agree with your rant though!
THe photo and caption came directly for Graham Watsons site.
http://grahamwatson.com/gw/imagedocs.nsf/updateframesetcall?openform&05giroSt2
<<This is a fuckn joke, right.>>
I hope it was a joke - for your sake. But I will not be surprised if you end up like him. Blocking such an important sensory input is dangerous.
You can’t deny it! If you can not hear traffic, other rider’s instructions (on group ride), or that Ambulance bearing down on you from behind you’ll lose valuable reaction time. Split seconds count!
Paul
Don’t forget loose dogs, deer, and other things that come up behind you.
I’ve never wrecked/been hit. I attribute some of that to hearing things coming. It’s not a the only reason, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard something coming and only managed to miss it because I squeezed the brakes before I saw it.
“On your left. ON YOUR LEF…gaaahhhh!!”
“Blocking such an important sensory input is dangerous.”
In Bicycling Mag a few years ago they commented that you shouldn’t ride with headphones because it’s dangerous to ride when you can’t hear. The next month a letter was printed from a deaf guy who asked the question. Do you think it’s dangerous for me to ride a bike then?
There are morons that run and ride with thier volume too loud. But it is possilbe to keep the volume just loud enough to hear music and hear around you. I gaurantee you I can hear someone calling “on your left.”
I stopped yesterday to get a gatorade yesterday during my workout and the Muzak was pumping out “all my X’s live in Texas” Without my own tunes to llisten to I’d have had that song stuck in my head for almost two more hours. I’d have ended up in a rubber room.
Curious- how do you feel about driving while talking on a cell phone?
Curious - how do you feel about driving while listening to the radio?
Multi tasking is always tricky. But when your life depends on your attention being focussed on one primary task, I think you should remove all distractions that might get in the way.
you can’t enjoy the sounds of silence and your pedal stroke? I live for that. Maybe that’s the runner in me talking, but there’s something to be said about training without any aids. One person once told me that while on a trainer, turn off the lights and ride in the dark for hours. Mind you, it was partially tongue in cheek, but he probably does that. Be tough, leave the Ipod at home.
you know the thing that i find hard is when i’m riding with my iPod and my phone rings and so i have to pull one of the earphones to answer the call, but can’t really reach back into my jersey to turn the iPod off because i’m riding with one hand talking on the phone…
usually don’t get passed so I don’t have to worry about that one.
Sometimes the first sign you get that something is up with your bike is audible - a clicking chain or pinging spoke. I prefer to ride with my ears open for that.
I have the same problem, and it is even more difficult when I try to look back at the same time because I just passed a beautiful chick in a mini-skirt. The IPod cables get in the way and of course I’m holding the phone with my left hand and have to turn to my right to watch the girl.
Now, that would be alright if I had washed my glasses in the past year and they were not that dirty.
I guess it would be even worse if I was wearing a helmet with all that gear revolving around my head/ears.
Curious - how do you feel about driving while listening to the radio?
I think most people drastically underestimate how adversely it can affect your driving.