Tributes to a cyclist

Thanks for that. Inspriational.

A terrible accident and a terrible loss of life and serious injury.

When we're all out on our bikes pedalling away, we're defenceless to the traffic that is all around us.
Unfortunately accidents do happen.
In most cases, despite injury, we can (and do) get back on the bike again and go back to pedalling our bikes.

However some accidents give the rider no chance.

A black day for all cyclists : we should remember all the other cyclists who have been killed and seriously injured too.

limerickman said:

A terrible accident and a terrible loss of life and serious injury.

When we're all out on our bikes pedalling away, we're defenceless to the traffic that is all around us.
Unfortunately accidents do happen.
In most cases, despite injury, we can (and do) get back on the bike again and go back to pedalling our bikes.

However some accidents give the rider no chance.

A black day for all cyclists : we should remember all the other cyclists who have been killed and seriously injured too.

Yeah, absolutely. Great post. I'm sure many of us for whom cycling has been a lifelong passion have known someone who has been killed or badly injured in an accident of this nature. Those who have survived will have physical and mental scars for the rest of their lives. I've seen how an accident like this can affect someone years after it happened.
My user name is in memory of a great Australian cyclist called Russell Mockridge. He was a dual Olympic gold medallist, winner of the Open Grand Prix of Paris as an amateur, winner of the Paris Six Day Race, Tour Du Vaucluse and a Tour de France rider. He was killed when hit by a bus in a race in Melbourne in 1958. He was only 30.
It's fitting that we remember him and Amy Gilet and all the others who have been lost this way.