Hard B@stards

[Smokin Joe]

Someone posted this on another forum, I never fancied cyclo cross and I'd have run a mile from this one -


View: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=158426667514240

 

[eldudino]

Awesome footage. No wonder the NHS is inundated with knee replacement surgeries with the big gears they're grinding out though!

 

[InspireTheEmpathic]

WOW!!! Thats a dream for me! haha, i'd do it with newer gear ratios but wow! I'm jealous.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Any chance of a non-Facebook link?

 

[Smokin Joe]

Also on You tube -


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9_Fs1QtsOY

 

[ColinJ]

That's great; I love the commentary!

As for the riders... Here's a river, I'll chuck me bluddy bike over it. Ooh, a swamp, better chuck me bluddy bike over it! Damn that wall, better chuck me bluddy bike over it! Ha ha!

 

[Tynan]

dear god, people did that for fun? is modern cyclo cross like that?

 

[MajorMantra]

dear god, people did that for fun? is modern cyclo cross like that?

It's similar, but with carbon wheels. Totally baffling activity to me.

 

[Aperitif]

Blimey! The baby wipe brigade would have a fit seeing their bikes submerged, slapped agin walls and suctioned by the muddy depths. And those nice brylcreemed hairdos, juxtaposed with the Brancales etc...it looks really enjoyable.

 

[dan_bo]

Too top footage. Reminds me of Stu Johnsons' LeMans-style starts.


Cyclocross is a superb sport practised by the valliant and the terminally stupid. Try it.

 

[e-rider]

brilliant

 

[dellzeqq]

'he trains running backwards on the road - he's been run over twice'

This is a revelation. The FNRttCs need to be toughened up a bit. Bollocks to the Gurkha Bridge - we're going straight down the river.

 

[User169]

Looks like they got their clobber from Rapha.

 

[oldroadman]

Looks like they got their clobber from Rapha.

Everyone had that sort of kit for about 1% of the price today. Whoever said CX is terminally stupid, if you are paying Rapha price for retro kit, then perhaps it's worth reflecting on what stupid actually is...!

 

[philipbh]

That's great; I love the commentary!

I like the bit when the commentator reveals "somone moved the flags (yours truly) " - hence the depth of the river crossing