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Goat backie YouTube stillThe best video you'll see today of a goat getting a backie on a bike
Ask a pro cyclist which type of rider they think will do best on a tough mountain stage, and often the answer will be "a mountain goat."
We're not sure whether this particular goat, filmed in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, is aiming for a podium place in a Grand Tour, but in this video he seems to be okay with the whole bicycle thing as he clings onto his owner.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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This bloke is quite well known in Addis Ababa. The photos that I have are of him with a different goat.....read whatever meaning you wish into that....
Totally irresponsible!
The goat is wearing neither high-viz nor a helmet!
I'm not sure about the rider - its possible that controlled studies would show that wearing a goat is more effective at giving protection in a collision than wearing a helmet. This needs further investigation.
I mean, if there's even a chance it will save your life, why wouldn't you wear a goat?
On the plus side, he just took a clean sweep of GOMs on that ride.
Where the hell is its helmet & hiviz? Completely irresponsible and dangerous.
I bet it rides on sportives, disregarding rules of the road and giving the rest of us cyclists a bad name.
I think you'll find the goat has misunderstood what was meant by 'invitation to dinner'.
"That's what friends are for..."
Is that legal, I bet he wouldn't make it down Manchester's curry mile....
No matter how he got up there, that goat looks strangely calm on a bike in traffic. Now if they had a mountain lion ...
The goats paws are tied together. No likey.
paws?!
I think you mean hooves. Not making fun of you; I just found that really funny.
How? just how do you train a goat to do that?
You get to a certain age and think you're unlikely to see something new..then along comes a goat on a bike.