Bauke Mollema: A call for action in rider safety ahead of the Tour de France

My last two blogs were about my race goals during the spring but for this post I’d like to take some time to talk about an important issue in cycling - rider safety. Especially because we head into the Tour de France this week, and if we consider the number of crashes that happened during the first 10 days of last year’s Tour, it is clear that it has become more and more dangerous and stressful.

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