Road Bike Party 2

[P-Jay]

Blah blah blah - fk it, just watch it - it's bloody brilliant.

http://youtu.be/HhabgvIIXik

Get well soon Martyn.

[neenaw]

Perfect

[Disco You]

The bit with Danny going backwards down a hill on his front wheel

[scottri]

Disco You said:

The bit with Danny going backwards down a hill on his front wheel

Amazing!

[Magic919]

That was amazing.

[S10GTA]

scottri said:

Disco You said:

The bit with Danny going backwards down a hill on his front wheel

Amazing!

All I was thinking was "id love to ride up that"

That's when you know you are a cyclist

[insurance_jon]

Absolutely mint

[IroningMan]

S10GTA said:

All I was thinking was "id love to ride up that"

That's when you know you are a cyclist poorly.

[Fluffsri]

IroningMan said:

S10GTA said:

All I was thinking was "id love to ride up that"

That's when you know you are a cyclist poorly.

Made me chuckle

[scubadude]

Disco You said:

The bit with Danny going backwards down a hill on his front wheel

Anyone know where that was, looked bd steep?

Great video, again, from the trials boys, I love the DM medicine ball roll, amazing trick.

[Usget]

.... I might give up cycling now...

[Dixie]

scubadude said:

Anyone know where that was, looked bd steep?

Great video, again, from the trials boys, I love the DM medicine ball roll, amazing trick.

Is it Hardknotts Pass? The ToB went up it this year.

[Silver940]

Dixie said:

scubadude said:

Anyone know where that was, looked bd steep?

Great video, again, from the trials boys, I love the DM medicine ball roll, amazing trick.

Is it Hardknotts Pass? The ToB went up it this year.

TOB went up Honiston, it looks very similar to hardknott but the water in the background was wrong.

Edited by Silver940 on Wednesday 11th December 13:48

[P-Jay]

I've just read an article Evans' posted on their FB page - it's a Rouleur Magazine interview with Martyn.

There's hasn't really been an official announcement (that I've seen) about his recovery, last I heard there was a long period of bed rest before they could really survey the damage, but they talk about it here.

http://rouleur.cc/journal/riders/martyn-ashton

It seems it's not good news, I don't suppose I suspected it would be, but I always hoped he'd recover, but it seems he's numb and paralysed from the bellybutton down and nothing short of a miracle is going to fix that.

He seems pretty upbeat though, huge mental strength to go with all that talent. Even setting aside the huge shock of going from a super fit and able man to a wheelchair users overnight, he's been in hospital for 102 days now, I was losing my mind after 2 weeks.

[missing the VR6]

Amazing video, only saw it last night.

It really is amazing what those road bikes can take!

[CocoUK]

Incredible how it hit +1mil views in under 24 hours - currently sitting on 4.4mil

I've also never seen my twitter feed blow up on the same scale before.
I follow ~70 individuals, 80% not mountain-bike related but still many of these people re-tweeted & commented about this video, great stuff.

[MiseryStreak]

I was just about to post this up but it's been done. What a fantastic video, makes me want to go for a ride. I'll never be able to work out how he rode down the hill backwards on his front tyre, insane.

[scubadude]

MiseryStreak said:

I'll never be able to work out how he rode down the hill backwards on his front tyre, insane.

It was actually a very long endo played in reverse- nothing on the internet is real afterall!

[MiseryStreak]

scubadude said:

It was actually a very long endo played in reverse- nothing on the internet is real afterall!

An endo up a 15% gradient, that would be even more impressive!