Mt Ventoux,,,going down

rayjay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI3UNU_n50U

He nearly bit the dust ,,,,

joelsim

Lunatic

southdownswolf

Looks sped up, then you see how fast he goes past the other cyclists... :shock:

The Truth

Reminds me of Froome, going up.

No_Ta_Doctor

The Truth wrote:

Reminds me of Froome, going up.

I was waiting for that. Less than an hour. Well done.

Mad_Malx

PLEASE don't rise to the bait NtD

Omar Little

very close call on going off the road when he overtook the first cyclist, id have shit myself and been on the brakes the rest of the way down after that!

No_Ta_Doctor

Mad_Malx wrote:

PLEASE don't rise to the bait NtD

Sorry.

lesfirth

My heart was banging just watching the video!

DeVlaeminck

Over 80mph?

Wheelspinner

On Campag brakes, too. Brave. Dude got ballz.

Yellow Peril

lovely weather.

joelsim

I was just waiting for him to overshoot a corner and get hit by traffic coming the other way.

andytee87

Wheelspinner wrote:

On Campag brakes, too. Brave. Dude got ballz.

He's on a specially built frame though, disk brakes and strengthened fork- check the silhouette at 1:05. I checked some of the comments and his other vids, turns out he rode Red Bull Road Rage, basically 4 man downhill racing on road bikes.

This is the bike he links to in a comment, maybe not the rider.

http://www.spoke.ie/2011/10/red-bull-road-rage-janos-kohler-signs-with-black-sheep-bikes/

thomthom

These are the guys that kill themselves.. Nowhere near good enough technical skills to justify doing this... Was centimeters from going off road in the first overtake.

Pretty brave racing, mind.

Gooner69

Looks very smooth, but I call bs on the top speed!

exlaser

Omar Little wrote:

very close call on going off the road when he overtook the first cyclist, id have shoot myself and been on the brakes the rest of the way down after that!

When I did it, that's just what I did and was on my ( campag ) brakes a lot of the time. Even so, I hit 60m.p.h and was still overtaken by another cyclist as if I was standing still !!!!!!

Paul 8v

Love that, going to have to keep an eye on this red bull road rage thing

greasedscotsman

First time I went to Ventoux, the hotel owner where I was staying said there had been a fatal accident on the climb the day before. Cars pull into the middle of the road to overtake cyclists going up the climb, someone went straight into one coming down.

Be careful out there folks!

TheHound

I don't think much to his descending skills at all.

He's riding the front brake going round corners, no racer of any sort does that. You brake in a straight line.

He also seems to be painfully slow in the middle of corners because he's going too fast into them. Slow in fast out.

He's got a few other videos and it's really only a matter of time before he kills himself and/or someone else. There's so many close calls. There's a fine line between bravery and stupidity. He's the wrong side of it.