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Cycling Videos Megathread **Do not quote videos**

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭Sarz91


    Brooklyn Red Hook Crit Full broadcast.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,350 ✭✭✭Daroxtar


    Great looking descent from about 2:30


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,350 ✭✭✭Daroxtar


    Some footage I shot on holidays, descending the Angliru, Lagos De Covadonga and a few others.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,167 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    1:45 in - is that the famous corner you see in all the photos?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,350 ✭✭✭Daroxtar


    Ya, I think so. It's "Piedrusines"
    Angliru06.jpg
    The steepest ramp is 23.5% but that hairpin is well over 30 on the inside. Wouldn't have fancied it at all in the wet, up or down


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭rizzodun


    As someone who tolerates road cycling more than enjoys it, that looks like serious fun, so it's obvious when I do get out on the road bike I don't descend half enough.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,167 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    it's funny, i don't find descending half as satisfying as climbing. and i don't do nearly enough climbing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,872 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    it's funny, i don't find descending half as satisfying as climbing. and i don't do nearly enough climbing.

    Do you have a tow rope? :)


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,167 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    heh. i have a 53/39 on the front, and a 13-26 on the back, hence the 'i don't do nearly enough climbing'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,872 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    heh. i have a 53/39 on the front, and a 13-26 on the back, hence the 'i don't do nearly enough climbing'.

    I had to google that. I'm a commuter, not a serious cyclist! Some of the videos are cool though!

    I lived in the city centre years ago when the tour de France visited Dublin and a cyclist in a yellow jersey stopped to rub my dog, chatted to him for ages until a few fans arrived and he headed off. Turns out he was a famous competitor. Haven't a clue who he was, but he was tanned, not Irish and his bike was very very expensive looking!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,350 ✭✭✭Daroxtar


    rizzodun wrote: »
    As someone who tolerates road cycling more than enjoys it, that looks like serious fun, so it's obvious when I do get out on the road bike I don't descend half enough.

    It was fun, but the first bit of that was hairy enough. It was too steep to really let go as I'd have been off the edge in a flash. It's also edited to leave out the really hairy bits so my Next of Kin didn't have a conniption- the directors cut features overtaking traffic, swerving around cows in the fog and a serious speed wobble at about 50kmh . "Oh it looks much faster than it really was, it's just the shaking camera makes it look faster" :D
    I enjoy climbing and descending equally but differently. I get a great sense of achievement from the climb but the descent is pure reward.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭✭The tax man


    Always love a great trail dog video.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,160 ✭✭✭nilhg


    Nice video following some of the riders and one especially on the 2016 Transcontinental race

    https://vimeo.com/197782959


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,451 ✭✭✭TheBlaaMan


    nilhg wrote: »
    Nice video following some of the riders and one especially on the 2016 Transcontinental race

    https://vimeo.com/197782959

    I really enjoyed that, as I do all videos of the transcontinental!
    Thanks


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,167 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    good god. 'i took a wrong turn on the stelvio so had to climb it again'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,263 ✭✭✭robyntmorton


    Three guys, a fatbike... And an electric fence!

    How hard can it be to get the bike over?



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Three guys, a fatbike... And an electric fence!

    How hard can it be to get the bike over?

    I seen that the other day and wondered would the handlebar grips not be insulated?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,263 ✭✭✭robyntmorton


    A lot of it would depend on the moisture in the tape and their gloves, which would change the insulating properties.

    That said, why didn't they pass it over the wooden section, where it would be easier to avoid the wires?

    (Though, if they are full rubber grips, it should make it much easier to do. Maybe they are just idiots)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 748 ✭✭✭Paul_Mc1988


    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=17b_1484341930

    When cycling is your only mode of transport:)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭f1000


    2017 UCI Cycling Gala – Guilin, CHN



    Katie-George Dunlevy @ 16min


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭rizzodun


    Martyn Ashton, world famous mountain biker and trials biker, paralysed from the waist down following an accident in 2013, rides Whistler Bike Park, the mecca of mountain biking, on a specially adapted e-bike.



  • Registered Users Posts: 935 ✭✭✭darconio


    Ouch!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,457 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    darconio wrote: »
    Ouch!

    Jesus that's some lump on his head! :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭f1000


    Short Film - Graeme Obree, Athlete or Genius?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,753 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    Simple, he was a genius.

    And badly treated if I recall correctly.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,167 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ8bioVdod8

    GCN presenters take on l'angliru.
    i tried kilmashogue last week, 2.5km @10%;. there's a section on l'angliru which is longer than kilmashogue, and is steeper than the steepest part of kilmashogue. that's just sadistic.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,167 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    the link to cycling is a little tenuous, but it comes right at the end.

    https://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/7478137/1e57193b/wacht_tot_het_rode_licht_gedoofd_is.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭marvin80


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ8bioVdod8

    GCN presenters take on l'angliru.
    i tried kilmashogue last week, 2.5km @10%. there's a section on l'angliru which is longer than kilmashogue, and is steeper than the steepest part of kilmashogue. that's just sadistic.

    Truskmore, 4km @10% - got up about half-way a few years ago (feed of pints the night before didn't help) - I'll give it another shot before the summer is out:

    https://www.strava.com/segments/1735489


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,167 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    maybe not the sort of video that was envisioned when this thread was started.



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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,167 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder




  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    That take drafting to a whole other level.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,167 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    and she's done it too. broken the record.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    and she's done it too. broken the record.

    184mph or 296kmph :eek:



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,650 ✭✭✭✭ted1



    I can’t help to feel that the word pedalled is bring used a bit loosely


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    ted1 wrote: »
    I can’t help to feel that the word pedalled is bring used a bit loosely

    Really? She did actually pedal the bike. She was pulled up to speed but still had to pedal. I don't know too many people who could pedal at that speed as she did, pull up and all.

    What's your position on keirin racing, stayer racing, derney racing? All pedalling, all motor-assisted. And no less challenging for it. I'd give them a try and then see loose the pedalling part of it is!

    Huge achievement in fairness.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Do you pedal cycling down a hill, you're going fast, and you can pedal but you're pedalling does help you go faster, but it doesnt mean you're pedalling speed is the speed you're going or your legs would fall off


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    The previous video MB posted had a good explanation of the bike whats going on. Basically it's near impossible to turn the cranks from a standing start, think she said it was close to 50 before she was able to start her effort.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,167 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    She was pulled up to 100mph i think. Which means she accelerated from 100 to 184 under pedal power (with assistance from the air cushion). And of course she made it as easy as possible (which still lies in the realm of stupidly difficult) to do it - the record is simply about going as fast as is possible pedaling a bike.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    She was pulled up to 100mph i think. Which means she accelerated from 100 to 184 under pedal power (with assistance from the air cushion). And of course she made it as easy as possible (which still lies in the realm of stupidly difficult) to do it - the record is simply about going as fast as is possible pedaling a bike.

    All of the distances in the video seem to me, to be in miles.
    When the commentator says 157, she is still tethered.
    The tether is released at 163.
    I reckon she was pulled until 160 miles per hour.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,167 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    just in case you ever wondered how to get two brompton bikes into a testarossa, skip to 2:20 in:



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,718 ✭✭✭AstraMonti


    just in case you ever wondered how to get two brompton bikes into a testarossa, skip to 2:20 in:

    At last, thank you. That was the only thing stopping me buying a Ferrari :pac::rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,457 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    just in case you ever wondered how to get two brompton bikes into a testarossa, skip to 2:20 in:


    Surely a true Testarossa owner would have a steel-framed Colnago waiting for him at his destination? :pac:


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,167 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder




    have watched the first 5 or 6 minutes of this. chap decides to cycle from the northern ocean at the north of canada to argentina.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,167 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    just in case you ever wondered how to get two brompton bikes into a testarossa, skip to 2:20 in:

    another car video with a vague cycling reference:


    50s in.
    a million quid and you only get 531. that's shocking.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,255 ✭✭✭07Lapierre




    have watched the first 5 or 6 minutes of this. chap decides to cycle from the northern ocean at the north of canada to argentina.

    Just watched this and part 2. Excellent. This guy has chronicled his complete ride to Argentina! That’s my TV over Christmas sorted. Cheers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭f1000




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭Thud




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,167 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    caveat - i have not watched this yet, but the series is usually good.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,167 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    eco eye have a load of episodes and videos available on their youtube channel, and a couple of them would be of interest to cyclists, e.g.



    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFMZHCUDrnCh3VWVv4uNzPg/videos


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