What Caused Scary Tour Of The Alps Chris Harper Crash? 

If ever there is an example as to why you wear a helmet, this is it. I'm glad both are ok.

It was the man hole cover clearly. Both riders slipped there. But Harpers head/neck impact with the pole, well…

That turn with that curb is absolutely ridiculous, not even a sign insight

Great work by the spectators who saw what happened.

Looks like he got bucked after hitting that manhole cover

At 2:20, on the right, he's the mayor of town of Levico Terme

The fact that both Harper and OConor crashed at the exactly same corner makes it more obvious. There was something on the road. Looked like the combination of pothole and the loose manhole cover. The GC group actually avoided it because the first two riders crashed. Fortunately the group didn’t take the curb and the corner together. It had Basque country written all over it with the lamp post so close! Helmet saved a life today! So glad that both the guys are okay!

That looks scary! I hope both get fast okay again

hate to see it, hope he's alright

Wow, that was some tumble! He's gonna feel that for a while. Gosh, I wish him well.

That's a fantastic helmet commercial right there

That was scary

i hope ur better friend

He hit something in the road 0:03 with his rear wheel, then grabbed the brakes and went off his line, locked up the wheels and went down after hitting the curb--probably pretty tough to avoid crashing in those circumstances.

This is scary.

That crash was awful for Chris Harper and O’Connor and I’m glad O’Connor finished

HE'S DOWN! An all-too familiar cry.

Great work by his teammate to do the same and make him feel better

When his trainer said that he wanted him to attack the pole he was talking about Michał "Kwiato" Kwiatkowski the Polish champion...

And Ben Healy won? Damn crashes in every races 😢 . 18424

going to fast into the bend ?

Ha sbagliato la curva ...e basta chi sbaglia paga... frena frena ... dischi surriscaldati dopo 20!lm di discesa.

There should be protection on that pole

The speed with 2 well covers where to much ,... could be stay away from there grey rituals

Crap road surface.

有中文翻譯卻沒有中文字幕是怎樣？中國人不能看中文字幕嗎？

Looks like they hired someone from my town to fill those potholes. 🙄

it's the long crack/overlapping of the road that did it. it's not even.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Che botta😮

may man hole covers in corners should be some kind of warning system flags

the young guys are strong thesedays....but they can't ride bikes. Back in the days you became pro after years of peloton experience....nowadays the make champs out of Zwift data and the drop the boys in a mad bike race with 200 men ....

How come they didn’t stop the stage and everyone criticized the organizers for the accident 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

That's a tyre problem

He hit the drain cover and lost control of bike. That's what happens when there is no suspension on road bikes..they don't have the capacity to absorb impact and maintain traction

DISC BRAKE LOCK UP - we see this over and over and over

Crashing with the hands glued to the bars is bizarre.

Frame geometry issue, partially goverend by stupid UCI rules. Too short FC, steep HTA, short WB, long stem -- resulting in road/cx bikes that handle like crap. Unrideable OTB monsters.

Makes ya wonder if the brakes work on these bikes? Do they look WTF they're going? "Safety" is always the responsibility of the organizers but there's plenty of "rider error" to go around. If they keep this up, "roadracing" is gonna end-up restricted to purpose-built circuits where f__k-ups like these won't be so costly, ala MOTOGP

Disc brakes have no space on road bikes. To much stopping power and riders do it all in last blink of a second and if you have slight imperfections on road you pay the price. We shold go back and dont listen the industry

Stop this straight away... These roads are clearly not suitable for cycling race.

Looks like vastly superior in all ways for ever and ever amen tubeless tire abandoning the (rim?) with gay abandon again?

Tubeless fail.

no aign,for sidqal barrier

Ran out of talent!!