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Man rides bike backwards down Mountain Road!!

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  • Started 11 years ago by Radgeworks
  • Latest reply from biketrain

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  1. Radgeworks
    Member

    linky

    Third try, posting this,
    {Admin please delete 2 previous posts, i only see them when i login?)
    This will take your mind off the cr@ppy weather for a wee bit.

    Regards

    RJ

    ADMIN EDIT

    Don't know why previous trapped. Usually 'contains too many links'.

    Random.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  2. twq
    Member

    If I'd done this on the ride this morning I'd have had a tail wind all the way in!

    Posted 11 years ago #

  3. Focus
    Member

    Doing it on a closed road? It's his life, he can do what he wants. On an open road (even a quiet one)? Muppet. They don't show how close he came to being flattened by the truck coming down as he descends at the end!

    Think I'll stick with our "adopted local boy" Danny McAskill :-)

    Posted 11 years ago #

  4. Radgeworks
    Member

    @ Focus - aye, a valid opinion, fair enough...

    I too rate Danny M very highly, always have.
    (right up there with Matt Hoffman etc :-)

    I posted the video because ive NEVER seen anything like this in my life, "muppet" or not.

    I hope everyone enjoys watching this as much as i did.

    RJ

    Posted 11 years ago #

  5. alanr
    Member

    Funny, I passed someone on the canal path last night with a red front light .. or maybe he was going backwards, I didn't stop to ask, but I did nearly hit him because I thought he was going the same way as me (East to West)

    Posted 11 years ago #

  6. Slug
    Member

    Ha! Brilliant! I wonder what my chances are of getting down the Bealach na Ba like that... or the Mound?

    Posted 11 years ago #

  7. gibbo
    Member

    Those crazy Scandis, you've got to love them.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  8. minus six
    Member

    mental geezer, he didn't even wait for a dry day

    i was up that same road on a bus, two summers ago

    Posted 11 years ago #

  9. SRD
    Moderator

    guy I was in kindergarten with, and who i've not even laid eyes on since the mid-80s, but who FB has revealed to be a keen cyclist sent me this:

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    No bikes were harmed in the making of this film.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  10. biketrain
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    Cycled up this road in Norway many years back, as part of a 5000km tour of Scandinavia.
    It is truly an amazing place to cycle. Only a handful of mountain roads are steeper than 1 in 10 so not to bad for touring.

    Posted 11 years ago #

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