‘Do you ever feel like maybe it’s not worth it?’ – last week in cycling’s social media

“Do you ever feel like maybe it’s not worth it?” Asked Anders Mielke of Mads Pedersen two years ago. An excerpt from this video, included right at the end of this page, was published just days after the Dane fractured his collar bone and wrist at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana on Wednesday. Pederson answered, “Yes.”

For every good race is the risk that it might end in disaster; in a broken collar bone, in severe burns and skin abrasions, or worse. And the question of rider safety is never far from the industry’s collective mind, most recently been embodied in the AeroBag, a self-inflating protection mechanism worn under riders’ clothes. Whether they will take the peloton by storm remains to be seen, but the company confirmed to Cycling Weekly that Picnic PostNL and Visma Lease a Bike have received kits and are ready to start testing.