Tony Martin has been on the track doing testing and when he took some time out to have a bit of craic, it wasn't long about going wrong.
He's the world time trial champion and has enjoyed plenty of ups and downs in his career; lots of excellent results but some bad crashes too.
But one place Tony Martin wasn't expecting to end up on his backside was during testing on the velodrome with his new Katusha-Alpecin.
After he'd put his TT bike through its paces in Valencia, he took on a challenge doing the rounds in the team to see who could ride 25o metres quickest on a Canyon commuter bike.
Some of the riders chose to do a track stand start, with no help from anybody holding them up.
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When Martin was about to start he assumed one of the staff was behind him ready to hold him in position for the off.
But he soon found he was on his own and went crashing down the track. He seemed fine, if a bit shaken, after the spill.
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But there wouldn't have been too many smiles had such a big name rider suffered an injury that sidelined him after such a silly mistake!
Martin goes on his backside after a bad mistake by the team supporters!
Martin gets away this time and does 27.88secs for 250 metres on the track.
But then Rik Zabel did a 22.23 effort for the distance; pick the bones out of that!
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