RIDER 1613, anyone off here? Not so sneaky when you get caught on camera 😯
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nXGn_zdrNQ[/video]

Possibly the Frenchest line I’ve ever seen.

easy enough to name and shame from the results page…shame it looks the rider in question is a sponsored rider.

MEGAVALANCHE ALPE D’HUEZ 2017

Rider 1613 looks to have come 27th.

Just shocked it wasn’t Joe Barnes tbh

Named and shamed on Dirt FB page – Link

So brazen it’s almost funny.

Not gonna do wonders for his career, I’d imagine.

And it seems that as well as not being French, the offender is a DHer who’s moved over to enduro this year.

Named and shamed on Dirt FB page

Looks like things may have turned fruity as it’s all been removed now (or at least I can’t see anything)!

Reminds me of the Lance Armstrong line. Maybe he just over cooked it and he had no alternative than take the short cut and avoid the big que of riders in front of him slowing him down 😆

Wonder why it’s been removed? Lad is a ‘Focus’ team rider…pretty stupid doing something so obvious in the age of Go Pro! What a plank

russyh – Member
Wonder why it’s been removed? Lad is a ‘Focus’ team rider…pretty stupid doing something so obvious in the age of Go Pro! What a plank

The article is still on the Dirt website, so I suppose its down to the comments on the Facebook video.

Funny! Wonder how long his FB page will last before the piss-taking comments start.

It’s all gone from Dirt now from the look of things. Good advert for Focus bikes though, we are all mentioning them! So He’s done his job!! 😆

Not really in the spirit of things.

Easy enough to find out who it is though.

Seriously?

I don’t race but if I did I would sooner sit at home and watch tv than try and “compete” by doing that. 🙁

Poopscoop – Member
Seriously?

I don’t race but if I did I would sooner sit at home and watch tv than try and “compete” by doing that.

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Agreed! At first I just thought why enter and then not ride it all when it turned out he’s a sponsored rider I just though FFS!!

So what’s the sanction then? DQ from the race? Sacked from the team for bringing them into disrepute!?!?!

Looks like folks are starting on his facebook page…gonna grab the popcorn

So what’s the sanction then? DQ from the race? Sacked from the team for bringing them into disrepute!?!?!

I guess it’s a DSQ result if the organisers are actually interested in the event having any kind of credibility in its results. I would take a very, very dim view as a sponsor. From a personal perspective we all make mistakes when the adrenaline is flowing, what makes us a proper person is how we handle ourselves in a competitive situation. Personally I’m all for pushing the boundaries but that was a complete piss take

It’s pretty interesting though because it’s not quite like the usual “cutting a corner” where it’s really about shortening the course or making a quicker route- what he’s really doing there is jumping the queue. Not defending it, it’s a straight up DQ but the motivation’s not the same as normal #endurocheating

Nothing wrong with that line. Do you even Strava?

Sure this not a case of mistaken identity? Our corner cutting hero has a light/white coloured helmet. The bloke with 1613 on his back and Joe Connell on his FB page have a very definitely red helmet.

Front of his helmet is white, back is red.

Front of his helmet is white, back is red.

Not sure it is – a splash of yellow but it does not look the same.

https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/19420668_1460002514046044_600487675743772034_n.jpg?oh=678dd6b868794816747661eef4afca49&oe=5A05BC8B

The comment on Facebook now seems to have disappeared. Can you remove peoples comments from your own posts?

So Dirt removed it, comments deleted of lads facebook page and it appears Ben Deakin has removed the video from his social media…..

Still on YouTube though

That said the lads riding jersey looks darker than the accused…

I must admit. The helmet does look different to me too.

Footage isn’t clear enough, and he didn’t look back to id the guy when he remained did he? I don’t know how he could tell which rider it was then.

Surely if he didn’t go outside any tape it’s legit?

Generally the unwritten rule of enduro is you follow the obvious route. Normally cutting corners like shown i.e. that blatant and massive is a no-no.

They couldn’t really fully tape the whole mega avalanche course.

Isn’t that white course tape on the higher section of piste that he’s riding down from?

So he was supposed to ride round that, not peel off beforehand

I just don’t think he should be penalised just because everyone else took the chicken run while he rode the feature 🙂

Some shenanigans took place in that quali, places jumped around a fair bit in the hour or so after it finished… Looks like my mate just got promoted a space!

No question at all that he was outside the tapes there

Sure this not a case of mistaken identity? Our corner cutting hero has a light/white coloured helmet. The bloke with 1613 on his back and Joe Connell on his FB page have a very definitely red helmet.

on his instagram, there’s pics of him face on where his helmet appears white at the front I suspect due to a combo of sunlight, light colours and a high gloss finish. (pic17 but also Pic2 a bit).
https://www.instagram.com/joe94connell/

Damn, too late to the party, Youtube video appears to have been taken down now.

This stinks.

Advertiser ‘requesting’ it be removed or genuine mistaken identity?