Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => On The Road => Topic started by: rafletcher on 21 July, 2017, 12:24:17 pm
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This happened Tuesday afternoon (around 2:30) near where I live. It's a fairly frequently used 10 mile TT course (it's the F11/10 on the A41 dual carriageway between Tring and Aylesbury), and the point at which the collision occurred is probably the less dangerous of the two U turns (the other is around a "spectacle" roundabout arrangement with nil visibility as you enter.) The collision occurred at a large single roundabout, with the usual issues of crossing the traffic stream to manage the 180 turn. The rider was trying to set an age related record.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-40680451
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Just read that - very sad. RIP Ray Dare.
(They don't do names like that any more.)
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That's incredibly sad.
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A real life to celebrate, but such a sad ending.
I take that roundabout regularly but avoid the dual carriageway parts of the A41. I'll be thinking of this event when I pass there for many years ahead.
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Tthe point at which the collision occurred is probably the less dangerous of the two U turns (the other is around a "spectacle" roundabout arrangement with nil visibility as you enter.) The collision occurred at a large single roundabout, with the usual issues of crossing the traffic stream to manage the 180 turn. T
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-40680451
This is not what the post on the Ray's Kingston Phoenix club site says:
"I'm sure he was well on his way to the record, he'd done the two turns and the long descent,which he would have loved. He was hit on a straight flat open piece of road, he had 2 miles to go."
Very sad. I used to work with him 30-odd years ago. I knew he was a cyclist but hadn't realised what a top rate time trialist he was.
Bryn