Check out this guy's "commute".

PBo
PBo Posts: 2,493
edited March 2011 in Commuting chat
Yeah, yeah, it's not that good a surface, but it's not that long is it? :wink:

Don't fancy the trip home though :twisted:

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  • chadders81
    chadders81 Posts: 744
    Not going to do your carbon rims much good either.
  • Mr Plum
    Mr Plum Posts: 1,097
    So many metal posts/railings/lamp posts/telegraph poles... fu*k that!! :P
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  • Mr_Cellophane
    Mr_Cellophane Posts: 690
    Bet his legs burn when he goes home at night.
  • jds_1981
    jds_1981 Posts: 1,858
    Do they do special seats for people with really big balls?
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  • Blandiblub
    Blandiblub Posts: 134
    Cor! It got quite narrow in places! Well done!
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  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    The dog looked pretty scared at 28-seconds :shock:
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  • Libraio
    Libraio Posts: 181
    I kept pulling my head up to get a better look in front of the rider... :)
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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    jimmypippa wrote:
    The dog looked pretty scared at 28-seconds :shock:

    When I first watched it I heard a squeal just after 28 seconds and I thought that the dog had got hurt. It was only on the second viewing that I realised it was just afterwards that the rider hit the brakes for the first time. A dog would have squealed immediately if it had been hit...I hope...
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  • Cafewanda
    Cafewanda Posts: 2,788
    I hope his Nan told him off :lol:
  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    I winced at every telephone pole.....hit one of those and it's game over with no replays.

    There are two possible explanations for this;

    1) Balls the size of watermelons.
    2) Brains of a spaniel
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  • Bikequin
    Bikequin Posts: 402
    Thats pretty awesome :shock: !

    Makes SCR look pretty tame.
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  • King Donut
    King Donut Posts: 498
    This is a recognised downhill event isn't it? (I'm not saying those guys aren't nuts)
  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    King Donut wrote:
    This is a recognised downhill event isn't it? (I'm not saying those guys aren't nuts)

    Kind of....yes, but not recognised officially. e.g. there are no UCI points in it,,,,

    Urban DH races are still fringe races, and done by the pro's for fun..and of course, for their sponsors.....

    that rider is Filip Polc....Slovakian DH rider, ranked 29th in the World UCI DH rankings at the moment....i.e. before the 2011 starts....

    This race is the Valparaiso Urban DH in Chile.....there are others in Portugal and Brazil (through some proper scary looking favella), and even here in the UK, Fat Face organise Urban DH races...there have been a couple in Edinburgh...it was in Scarborough last year.....not sure about this year.....
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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    That is when full-susser makes sense for the commute I guess!

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  • walkingbootweather
    walkingbootweather Posts: 2,443
    What a wimp. He never had to contend with buses, taxis, RLJs, gormless pedestrians, british weather etc. and still never managed to overtake anyone.
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