Just moments after jumping ahead to take an imaginary Rás stage win on the seafront along Dublin's Clontarf, our hero was being pushed home.
This is perhaps not the kind of send off you want on the eve of the An Post Rás, especially just after you've sprinted for an imaginary stage win and won it convincingly.
But top Irish rider Colm Cassidy (Aquablue) had to be pushed home from his pre Rás coffee spin this morning by some of the best riders in the country after his rear mech broke off his bike.
Cassidy, a silver medal winner in the Irish elite time trial championships, was out for a loosener with Sean McKenna, Anto Walsh, Al Dunne and Ciaran O Conluain when the hangar on his frame broke and sent the rear mech into his spokes.
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There was nothing else for it but for the others to push him home; a scene Cassidy hopes won't be replicated when he rides the An Post Rás with iTap starting tomorrow.
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But it was a little embarrassing that Walsh - of A1 Coaching - had his phone out taking a few video shots when tragedy struck.
Still, it could have been worse; the bike may have broken during an epic line-out in the Rás causing much gnashing of teeth and weeping of tears rather than a few giggles on the way home from Howth.
Tragedy strikes...
Video courtesy A1 Coaching
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