After starting Sunday’s final stage of the Volta Algarve in the leader’s jersey, ending the day seventh probably wasn’t what Tom Pidcock was hoping for. But it could have been much worse. Pidcock saved what could have been a rough crash with a wild will ride on his TT bike.
The INEOS rider came in a little too hot to a sharp left hand turn and nearly lost control of his TT bike. Pidcock locks up the back wheel a few times as he tries to correct course and make the turn but it wasn’t nearly enough.
Clearly headed off-road, the Olympic mountain bike champion switches modes, from road to mtb, puts his left foot out and launches into a wall ride on the dirt embankment beside the road. Easy enough on a mountain bike, but this save is quite something on the skinny tires and sketchy handling of a TT bike. Then, with a little step-hop to get back over the curb and onto the road, Pidcock clips back in and rides away like nothing happened. . @tompidcock salva de uma queda. @stefankueng vence a última etaoa da #VAlgarve2023 e @GannaFilippo vence a geral. pic.twitter.com/LJi37gQrje Pidcock’s wall ride saved his day and, with the Classic’s fast approaching, avoided a crash that could have derailed part of of his season. It didn’t, though, save his lead at the Volta Algarve. The Ineos rider finished 19th on Sunday’s fifth and final stage in Spain. That dropped him from first to seventh in […]
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