Jens Voigt escapes serious injury in 80km/h fall

If you are a bike rider - you don't even have to race, just to ride is enough - you will have done this at least once: http://snipurl.com/noup1
Perhaps not whilst going 80km/h, but you will know what it's like to hit a bump and momentarily lose contact with the handlebars. You may snag a brake lever, or a brake cable (which saved me from an almighty fall once) or you may actually hit the road. Jens Voigt was unlucky, but it was all happening just too fast to recover. To me it looked like a simple change of road surface, a bump, loss of control and the subsequent fall. being at the back of the bunch he probably didn't see it early enough, or at all. It can happen to anyone.

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