Ahh man that sucks. Hope he heals up well. 
Finding it hard to read the story - will the door-opener be prosecuted?
No, Keegan will be charged for reckless driving for running into a parked car.
People in the LT26 thread were more optimistic than I am. I just can’t see him lining up in 7 weeks for Sea Otter. Even if he’s off the bike optimistically for 3 weeks….he’d be chasing his fitness for a couple weeks. I have doubts he’s going to be able to jump straight into his insane volume too.
That feels like an easy skip to me, regroup and get healthy for Unbound.
I never seem to see comments about this but once more when we see elite cyclists with fractures it makes me concerned that they have RED-S.
Is Matt Beers still going to race Cape Epic with someone else?
Keegan may be slotting into the teammate role more than he thought for Matt and Mads for this years LT Grand Prix
Totally sucks. The idea of getting doored scares the crap out of me. I try to do as much as I can to stay out of the door zone.
That is a specific endorsable offence in the UK.
+1000, and I don’t even ride that often in places where it’s high risk. Getting doored and going over a barrier/guardrail (at heights) are 2 things I am extremely anxious about and try to avoid the situation at all costs. And that was before I was on a ride where a guy went over a barrier on bridge and feel ~40 feet straight down (life flighted out, lived, mostly recovered). I’ve never seen someone get doored in person, but that could definitely be a life-altering/ending event.
It’s great that it is, and the hope is that it incentivizes motorists to look before opening the door. But if you do get doored and effed up, that’s not much consolation.
Damn, that sucks. I hope he has a full and speedy recovery.
Having had broken bones from a bike crash, I know it takes time to heal. But the pros seem to heal twice as fast as amateurs.
Well the general advice is not to ride in the dooring zone. Basic cycle training as a child that is often forgotten.
Har, yeah. Training is good, but common sense self preservation works for me. Unfortunately, cycling infrastructure often is counter to this early training placing bike lanes trapped between parked vehicles and the curb, or between parked vehicles and traffic lanes, the latter being common around here. In any case, it’s best if riders are aware of the potential, and decide how they’re going to address it. I know many who blithely ignore it.
I think it happened in Girona. In my experience it’s actually harder to avoid door zones in Europe because the streets are so narrow. Or people will straight up park in the street and make the 1.5 lane road into a 0.75 lane road. Not to say they need wider streets, that’s just the reality of European infrastructure/culture. Unless you ride legit in the middle of the road (which puts you head on with opposite direction cars), then there is no avoiding every door zone.
Iirc Remco got doored last year too.
I just wouldn’t be so quick to chalk it up to inattentiveness or bad riding habits.
Yes, happened here in Girona when they were training for Santa Val 2 a few weeks back. In general the cycling infrastructure here is pretty incredible and drivers are very respectful but this kind of thing happens in every city. Girona is great but you still got to ride streets a bit to get out of town - even to gravel, and yes some of those streets are super narrow as this happens to be a 2000 year old town (in places).
You’ll find local riders or those that are around cities more often, riding a bit more to the center so they can react faster but unfortunately he got smoked. Still rode Santa Val but was obviously way off the pace.
But Matt and Mads are going to be a force to be reckoned with this year. Mads has got a great sprint and just needs someone who can tow him at 350W all day. Here’s hoping Keegan is back after it pretty quick - you seen how fast Payson bounced back last year and arguably he was even stronger when he did get back.
Also hard to avoid because the bike lanes often are in the door zone.
Ah but the vehicles are also narrower. Its not hard to avoid door zone. Just ride further into road till past the parked cars.
From IG, it looked like he’s at least back on the bike now in some capacity, so that’s a good start.