"[Paolo] Bettini pulled off one of his typical defying-the-laws-of-physics moments...

…while making a right-hander that was much sharper than he expected and instead of hitting the curb and body slamming the wall as any mere mortal racing cyclist would he hopped onto the curb contorted his body and twisted his bike and nonchalantly slid off the pavement back into the peloton. INCREDIBLE.” Read cyclist David Millar’s excellent Giro d’Italia blog.