Centurion: Cyclist that hit the barrier.

[Ox_Wagon]

Does anybody have info if the cyclist that hit the barrier under the R21 on the road to Piere Van Reinerfelt is OK?

Ox_Wagon2009-11-30 23:52:30

[AfreekduSoet]

Also saw it.  Didn't look too good.  Anyone know if a car was involved?

 

Have had a few close calls there with motorists not willing to give you 2cm.

[Tonton]

It is a buddy of mine. He is in hospital, got a nasty bump on the head and face.

We came down the hill and he hit some rocks laying next to the barrier. No cars were involved. The bus driver following drove very courteous and only drove past the cyclist laying in the rode after I instructed him to do so. 

 

We had 2 accidents this morning - 1 on Klapperkop and this one. Both gone to hospital. No cars involved.

 

People - be carefull when cycling - concentrate and always wear a helmut - without these two guys' helmuts they would have been in a much worse state.

[shaunh]

Glad to hear they will be OK and that cars were not involved!!

 

 

 

Speedy recovery to these two dudes!

[AfreekduSoet]

What happened on Klapperkop?

[Evan Andreou]

my wife saw them on her way to work. Speedy recovery

[jmaccelari]

 

People - be carefull when cycling - concentrate and always wear a helmut - without these two guys' helmuts they would have been in a much worse state.

A "helmut"? Is that a German thing, like lederhosen?

 

[shaunh]

 

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No, like in Helmut Lotti the singer!!

[Tonton]

Klapperkop: Nasty speed bumps coming down from the water tower going east took another victim - broken collarbone. No other parties involved - we always ride there on Tuesday mornings from about 5:20 to 6:00. Never had any problems - but we ride in a big group, between 12 and 15 guys.

[Andyr249]

Hope they both recover quickly!

[Scalpel]

Klapperkop: Nasty speed bumps coming down from the water tower going east took another victim - broken collarbone. No other parties involved - we always ride there on Tuesday mornings from about 5:20 to 6:00. Never had any problems - but we ride in a big group, between 12 and 15 guys.

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Did he fall over one of the speedbumps? Did his hands slip off the handlebars or how did this accident happen on Klapperkop?

[AfreekduSoet]

Klapperkop: Nasty speed bumps coming down from the water tower going east took another victim - broken collarbone. No other parties involved - we always ride there on Tuesday mornings from about 5:20 to 6:00. Never had any problems - but we ride in a big group, between 12 and 15 guys.

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Those bumps are more dangerous than a drunk mother driving an ML with 5 kiddies in the back while talking on the cellphone.

 

Thanks go to the morons who "built" it.  Another RAF claim awaits.

[Tonton]

I did not witness the accident as this happened behind us but it appears that his front wheel slip as he went over the bump - he did move left to the lower part of the bump. He then went head-over-heals and hit the road with his helmet , shoulders and back.

 

It is simply a dangerous design with no "escape" area on the bump.

One should always try to keep your weight back and do not brake just before the bump.

 

[Lotus]

I saw something similar happen two Sundays ago here at the Cradle. The construction vehicles are picking up/dumping ground next to the Elandsdrift road, just off the R512. After the rain the truck tyres are coated with mud when they get back on the road, which shakes off in big clumps on the shoulder of the road.

 

One of the riders in a group hit a clump of this mud and went down hard, at the bottom of the downhill section. He was lying down when I went by, but well attended (still there when I came back nearly an hour later!).

 

 

 

 

 

[Ox_Wagon]

Glad to hear he is OK.