Video: This Is Sheffield Mass Start DH…

Here’s a little bit of fun for your Friday afternoon – the guys from This Is Sheffield, fresh from organising the Steel City Mini DH and their ghetto dual and downhill races, have gone a step further and organised a mass start downhill race. As well as their usual Tuesday night ride crowd turning up, a certain Steve Peat and a mister Brian Lopes put in an appearance.

Check out Duncan Philpott’s edit below…

Joe has promised a full write up on the This Is Sheffield site soon, so keep your eyes peeled for that. We hope the mass-start-trail-bike-race-followed-by-beer format takes off. Either way, it all puts our night rides to shame…

Jon Woodhouse

Comments (15)

16stonepig16stonepig May 20, 2011 at 4:16 pm

That is proper Dicking About On Bikes. The world needs more of it.

rhayterrhayter May 20, 2011 at 4:57 pm

A proper larf, as they say down my neck of the woods. What mountain bike racing should be about.

blowerblower May 20, 2011 at 7:04 pm

Yep looks a right larf! wish i’d gone to that..need more stuff like this..
could do with organising one like this my neck of the woods.

scrapriderscraprider May 20, 2011 at 9:59 pm

ha ha ha that looks great fun.

mikewsmithmikewsmith May 20, 2011 at 10:22 pm

Either way, it all puts our night rides to shame…

Want a bet?

DaveyBoyWonderDaveyBoyWonder May 21, 2011 at 9:35 am

That looks bloody brillaint. I might move to Sheffield.

buzz-lightyearbuzz-lightyear May 21, 2011 at 1:26 pm

😀 Looks like a laugh

ir_banditoir_bandito May 21, 2011 at 1:47 pm

brilliant! love the multiple helmet-cam shots

juicedjuiced May 21, 2011 at 8:18 pm

brilliant.

MrK mkIIMrK mkII May 22, 2011 at 11:06 am

“Either way, it all puts our night rides to shame…

Want a bet?”

it puts mine to shame but it certainly recalls a mass-start underground DH race on a mountain in the central belt that happens once a year at night…

NorthwindNorthwind May 22, 2011 at 1:57 pm

That road could do with a wee bit of patching

leginlegin May 23, 2011 at 1:28 pm

awaesome im loving that idea seemed a great laugh got to get something going here in wales.i think a mass start off pen y fan and down the roman road till the finishin the forestry car park would be great fun.

gwaelodgwaelod May 23, 2011 at 6:18 pm

“it puts mine to shame but it certainly recalls a mass-start underground DH race on a mountain in the central belt that happens once a year at night…”

Underground downhilling!! – You are Orinoco and I claim my free Mike Batt greatest hits CD

NickoliNickoli May 24, 2011 at 9:18 am

http://thisisheffield.co.uk/2011/05/megadeath/

Race report now up on ThisISheffield.co.uk

butterworth24butterworth24 May 27, 2011 at 11:37 pm

i remember being on a geography trip there thinking dammit where’s my bike!!!

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