Jure Robic died on September 24th at aged 45 when he collided with a truck while training. I first heard of Jure in a podcast on Radiolab called limits. This is where I came in contact with RAAM, the Race Across AMerica. Jure has won the race from San Diego to Atlantic City an unprecedented 5 times. This is easily akin to Lance Armstrong’s 7 wins of the Tour de France. Without big name sponsorship and a six figure salary.
Consider if you will RAAM is not a stage race, there are no rests. Jure once rode 518.7 miles (834.8 km) in 24 hours, a world record, and an average speed of 34.7 km/hour.
Scares me as a new driver – I don’t ever want to know what it feels like to take someone’s life with my car. There needs to be better sharing of the roads so cyclists aren’t picked off. 🙁
While I agree I never want to know what that feels like, in this case it was Jure who was at fault. One of the articles mentions he was on a mountain road with blind corners descending very fast. I highly recommend reading this article on the NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/sports/playmagazine/05robicpm.html?_r=4&pagewanted=print
The guy was amazing.
Sorry, but it’s not the truth. Jure was my best friends and I can tell you that he was training on a mountain track, not a road,….the man that who killed him was drunk, and he was driving back from the wood where he was gathering some woods…..
it wasn’t Jure’s fault…he was training off-road with his mountainbike. When you go in the wood with your mountainbike do you expect to find a CAR there ?????? I don’t.
That is interesting information Erica, the article I was referring to is here: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/jure-robic-killed-in-accident Do you have any information to share?