Jonas Vingegaard's crash on Tuesday has sparked some lively debate in the cycling world.
The two-time Tour winner hit the deck while out for a training ride in Spain with someone he did not know riding in his wheel, as the team and then the fellow rider himself later confirmed.
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Riding in a stranger's wheel has always been a bit of a thorny issue, but when that stranger gets paid to ride their bike for a living, especially if they're a Tour de France winner, things go from thorny to divisive. Vingegaard's crash ratcheted the divisiveness up to 11 because his Visma-Lease a Bike team seemed to imply that the amateur rider deserved blame Vingegaard's crash. Just look at the replies to Visma's post on X. As of press time there are 163 of them.
With all those good people of what used to be called the Twittersphere (the Xsphere just doesn't sound as good) voicing their opinions, we don't feel the need to further litigate Vingegaard's own situation. Instead, we reached out to some current and former pros to get their advice more generally on how to do it right.
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