This is the best thing we’ve seen for a long, long time. At the 2011 BUCS Student champs, ‘someone’ taped in a rather steep descent on the cross country course. Shot by Joe from This Is Sheffield, this video will make your Tuesday a much happier place…
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Other people falling off bikes is funny. Students falling off bike is even funnier!!!!
Very funny! Reminds me of early MTB races (91-95)…
Perhaps this sounds a touch uncharitable and there may well be extenuating circumstances to which I am unaware, but had any of these riders ever actually been mountain biking before?
Proof, if it were ever needed, that riding down steep stuff with your saddle right up is never a good idea.
Brilliant, enjoyed that!
There were a lot of experienced riders there, but the conditions were unfavourable to say the least.
I had a go with a 2.4 Fat Albert up front and still almost washed out on that descent.
I’m surprised the bloke with the Intense frame and the stick didn’t have to have both surgically removed from his rectum at the end of the day! Very funny video!
its amazing how many people have no idea how to brake properly.
Ah the little known sport of “bike flinging”. Some good riding in there between the falls. Just not much 🙂
Gets better every time I watch it. Was great fun to watch at the time too.
@ charliebigpotato “extenuating circumstances”? Well, it was basically an old DH course at Moelfre, with some extra rocks, banana peels, and gallons of water thrown onto it by spectators 😉
I’m guessing it’s a bit steeper than it looks, but yes, a lot of them could do with dropping their seatposts IMHO.
Utter brilliance. Made my week that has!
Brilliant! That has also made my week. Top marks for the video man.
Ah magic. It’s like the 90s all over again. I did the 1995 student champs and there was a hill like that on the DH course. I managed to hook my shorts on my saddle as i was getting over the back of the bike, moon the ghouls, go over the bars and pile through the safety netting. Happy days.
Brilliant, just brilliant!
You owe me for a new keyboard, this one has tea spat all over it now!
Brilliant.
Very funny 🙂
At least there was a hill there, the last student champs I did, 2000, on the Isle of Wight, the DH course went uphill across a field to get a bit mor descent. I stil magaed to fall off and break my collar bone…
Great stuff, reminds me of the time old spectator spot at the malvern bomb hole.
Dropping their seat posts ! Lol ! Its meant to be a XC race except as mentioned the organisers have routed it down part of the DH course.
Also the student championships are a bit different from a normal event as crowd for the XC event are actually the DH riders from the day before, they want to see either
1. Unbelievably good riding
2. Crashes
Therefore organisers/spectators try to maximise rather than minimise accidents. As mentioned with the water/debris.
Therefore you get loads of cheers if you try something reckless whether it works or not.
Plus theres the fact that many of the riders are hungover from celebrating the DH event the day before. I dont really understand why they dont do the XC on saturday and DH on Sunday.
Im not even sure its funny I have seen at previous student champions the crowd boo some of the girls if they decide to walk down and its probably their first race.
That descent was well worth the uplift track climb. I wanna go again!
As we say up here, “pure dead brilliant by the way”.. made my Tuesday much much brighter. Keep up the good work.
Great fun, and hats off to all the attempters. The guy in the jimmy hat had it.