Jul
11
How Tour de France riders stay safe in the saddle
The first week of this year’s Tour de France was filled with harrowing scenes of twig-thin riders splayed out on the pavement, bleeding from the head or clutching broken limbs. Or in the case of Johnny Hoogerland (above), extracting themselves from barbed wire.
My story on how riders stay safe in the saddle, despite the omnipresent threat of crashes, ran in The New York Times on Monday.
