Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag

Updated on: October 31, 2025 / 6:45 AM EDT / CBS/AFP

A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.

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#BikeTooter #SearchAndRescue #wine #cycling

Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag

A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."

^{CBS News}

So I have one bike, an electric assist bike, and as I've shared here, I'm saving up for a #Rivendell next spring (non-electric, regular bike).

Hubby has teased me this is too many bikes, and I've said, "Dude, you have no idea how bike people get, be grateful I'm only thinking of two," and it led to us guesstimating how many people have more than one bike. I said over 30%, he thinks 1-2%.

How many bikes do you have? Not in your household, but for you personally to ride/maintain?

#BikeTooter

• I have no bikes 😭 (20%, 120 votes)
• One 🚲 (34%, 209 votes)
• Two or three (32%, 198 votes)
• Four or more bikes (12%, 74 votes)

It is funny to be back in the place where I used to live for most of my life. Having been away for so long, I have all kinds of emotions: some positive, some negative. The mixture leaves me puzzled. Now, reflecting on them, I decide to concentrate on the positive ones. I have no use for the other ones. These are mainly ghosts from the past. Styria is lovely, the weather is perfect, it smells fantastically, and a school kid even fell in love with my Brompton.

#Brompton #BikeTooter #BikePacking

Day 4 of my #retirement #bikepacking tour on #Brompton folding #bike : Milano -> Lodi - 42 km, half of it stop-and-go in the suburbs of #Milano . 3 #ghostbikes within 1 km in the small village of Dresano. I dedicate this stage to all the #cyclers who were killed on the road.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

#bikepacking #BikeTooter #cycling #CycleTravel #cyclotourisme #cyclotouring #fahrrad #vélo #radreise #radfahren #cyclisme #criticalmass #radtour #BikeItalia #Italia #Italy

Chat, is this solarpunk?

#LAriots #solarpunk #bike #BikeTooter #fuckice

Hey #bikeTO #mastobikes #biketooter check it out, there's a bike-specific film festival with an online participation option, priced on a sliding scale, open until 2025-05-01!

sfba.social/@ascentale/1143616…

bicyclefilmfestival.com

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(ht: @grammasaurus , via: @ascentale )

Bicycle Film Festival 2024-2025 Virtual: BFF Classics

Bicycle Film Festival’s 25th Anniversary Join us virtually as we celebrate the films & filmmakers from the past 25 years BFF 2024-2025 Worldwide Virtual digs into some of our greatest hit films that screened at the festival around the world from 20…

^{Bold Type Tickets}

thinking about this post and about how this could be me because my hearing is sometimes not great and I have a terrible habit of nodding and smiling instead of asking people to repeat themselves 🙃

#BikeTooter

La 'cargo bike' de nuestras abuelas. En los años cincuenta con esta bicicleta repartían el pan en la calle Santa Rosa de Lima de Santa Cruz.

#biketooter #bicis #tenerife #santacruzdetenerife #cargobike

riding bikes every day until I can’t for some reason, day 1514

#Cycling #BikeTO #Photography #BikeTooter #BikeStreak #Autumn

I wish I knew more about this project in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
I suspect this is part of bus driver training.

I'm imagining the DMV making it a part of every driving test for your license. Some people learn best by experiencing the consequences of their actions from the victim's perspective.

#BikeTooter #ShareTheRoad #DrivingSafety

I finally got around to fixing bikehero.io

Use it to find and add bicycle repair stations to @openstreetmap

Basemap now powered by @protomaps

#OpenStreetMap #opensource #opendata #BikeTooter

Late Day Shadows by Nancy Messier

Y'all. This is a quilt. Yeah. That whole thing is a quilt!

ETA: #BikeTooter

So you've tried taking your bike on a train, but have you tried taking your train on a bike?

Picture from Thornes Park Miniature Railway, Wakefield UK, where one of their members brought their miniature loco to a running day in an unexpected way.

#BikeTooter #ModelEngineering #SteamTrain

Cycling is now the single largest mode of travel during peak times in the City of London, according to a new report.

Cyclists represent 40% of traffic during peak hours and 27% of traffic throughout the day.

Since 1999, the number of motorists has dropped 64% and the number of cyclists has increased 386%.

#Urbanism #UrbanDesign #ClimateChange #Cycling #BikeTooter #UK #London #Mobility #Transportation

forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2…

Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists In City Of London

At peak times, people cycling represent 40% of road traffic in the City and 27% throughout the day.

^{Carlton Reid (Forbes)}

New drawing: Santa's Christmas Bike

See more diagrams from my Odd Bikes series here: davewalker.com/oddbikes/

#oddbikes #christmascartoon #santa #christmas #christmasart #santacartoon #cycling #ActiveTravel #BikeTooter