Road Bike Party 2

[PotomacCyclist]

You’ll believe a road bike can fly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhabgvIIXik

At first I was going to say that this is better than Danny MacAskill, but he’s here too.

As with the MacAskill videos, I have mixed feelings about this. The producer and one of the riders, Martyn Ashton, was injured at a trials demonstration during the time he was filming this sequel video. He is now paralyzed from the waist down. These are amazing videos, but this is very risky stuff that they’re doing.

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[Jason B]

So, I can probably stop worrying about my rims when I jump the curb at Roosevelt Island.

[Fast Friendly Guy]

@Jason B 71566 wrote:

So, I can probably stop worrying about my rims when I jump the curb at Roosevelt Island.

Hey, Jason, that must have been you I saw doing this about a year ago! You’ve been my hero ever since. I’m still working on getting up enough nerve to bunny hop it myself. I guess I’m more a chicken than a bunny.
Dave

[Geoff]

@PotomacCyclist 71564 wrote:

I have mixed feelings about this.

Mixed feelings indeed. Gotta admire the skill, and the focus / drive to develop that skill, but never would I recommend doing this to anyone.

[TwoWheelsDC]

Totally fake. Everyone knows that crabon asplodes if you even breathe on it funny.

[MRH5028]

I think for the first one of these he did he released a “behind the scenes” thing where he said he only had 1 flat during filming and no issues with rims or frame. Pretty amazing.

[jabberwocky]

@MRH5028 71604 wrote:

I think for the first one of these he did he released a “behind the scenes” thing where he said he only had 1 flat during filming and no issues with rims or frame. Pretty amazing.

Yeah, in the behind the scenes video he addressed people who claimed he must have gone through multiple bikes by saying he used the same bike and wheels for the entire video and still had it, and that he only had one flat. Pretty amazing. The thing that surprises me most is that he’s able to pull those trials moves with road brakes (many of them require very strong braking force; trials guys often run hydraulic rim brakes and grind the rims to make them rough so the brakes grip harder).

[KLizotte]

I’ve read various articles that put the price tag of the bike around $24,000!

[PotomacCyclist]

Yes, Ashton confirms in the video description (on the YouTube page) that the bike costs 15,000 British pounds, about $24,600. Colnago is one of the sponsors, so the riders probably didn’t have to pay for that bike, or worry about any damage to the bike.

(I assume they have good health insurance. Britain has the NHS but I don’t know the specifics of the program.)

[kcb203]

@MRH5028 71604 wrote:

I think for the first one of these he did he released a “behind the scenes” thing where he said he only had 1 flat during filming and no issues with rims or frame. Pretty amazing.

I wonder what tire pressure he used.

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