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Ach whatever.
My comment was addressed at stoopid narrow bars, much like the ones in the picture (one hand either side of the stem style.) I, personally, would have more chance opening a can of whoop-ass on Mark Cavendish, than be able to sprint effectively on bars like that. Don't think I'd be able to lever my way up anything particularly steep either.
Jim's a very tasty rider and tbh, his bars look pretty normally sized in the sprint photo anyways.
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@ Stradam "Its also too far and too much damage caused by the bike for it to be doing only 30."
Sorry that's just not true. I've snapped a motorbike in half hitting a car at about 20mph, side on. I've had many, many motorbike crashes and it's a fact that modern bikes spray plastic everywhere even in a 15mph slide.
Simple fact from the photo; the bike didn't travel far once over the reservation and remained largely intact. If it had been doing much more than 30, let alone 50 or 70, it would, in my opinion either have travelled a hell of a lot further or sustained a lot more damage.
I usually never contribute in these threads but assuming that just because a motorbike was involved means the rider was speeding and at fault is really counterproductive to road awareness. It only enforces an already stale stereotype that motorcyclists are the cause of their own accidents and discounts the unpleasant truth that the vast majority of accidents involving both Motorbikes and Cycles in London have nothing to do with speed and everything to do with 'sorry mate, didn't see you'.....
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Horrible accident and I really hope it is not as serious as it seems.
To be honest, looking at the pictures, I don't think the bike could have been going that fast. Any kerb impact over 30 would shatter the front wheel and / or tear the forks off and the 748 looks largely intact.
(Edit) Looking again 70mph sounds ridiculous, I've seen multiple times what happens to motorbikes sliding at 70 and they'll slide a hell of a lot further and with more damage than in that picture.
Really hope that all involved are OK.
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2nd in avoiding Pisa. Siena is fabulous, as mentioned already. Might have better luck with bike finding in Lucca though as it's a much bigger (and utterly spectacular) town.
Worth exploring the coast between Sestri Levante and La Spezia a little further north. Unbelievably pretty and also where they ran the individual time trial in this years Giro. The roads SP1 and SP566 are truly insane.
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Love the back!