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When we received the email from Christopher from NYCMTB, we thought: “Wow, how cool would it be to build a pump track in New York City!?”
When he showed us pictures, we thought: “Is this really true?”
When we went to see the site, we just didn’t know what to think anymore, but we knew, we had to build this pump track no matter what … Pictures and more
Even by cycling standards, the footage is hard to watch.
During stage three of the Tour de France yesterday, an enormous crash in the main peloton threw a host of riders off their bikes. In the ensuing melee, William Bonnet, who appeared to trigger the crash when he clipped a wheel, broke a cervical vertebra, while yellow jersey holder Fabian Cancellara went somersaulting dramatically into a roadside hedge, his bicycle pirouetting in the air behind him.
Of course, cycling and Le Tour are no strangers to crashes. Notoriously, this is a hard man’s game, requiring riders to … More