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Video: Wheelies up Grand Depart's steepest climb - Sheffield's Jenkin Road

John Degenkolb and Matteo Trentin put a show on for the crowd

When you hit the steepest part of any hill in the Grand Depart of this year’s Tour de France, and you’re 10 minutes or so down on the men fighting for the stage win, what do you do? Well, if you’re Giant Shimano’s John Degenkolb and Matteo Trentin of Omega Pharma-Quick Step, you pull a crowd-pleasing wheelie.

That’s what the pair did on Sunday afternoon as they headed up the one in three gradient of the Côte du Jenkin Road in Sheffield shortly before the end of Stage 2 – and luckily, one fan caught it on video.

Mike Cooper, who shot the video, said: “To have not only the physical strength and skill to do this, but the willingness to entertain the crowd in this situation, says as much about the riders themselves as it does about the tremendous support of the crowds across Yorkshire over this amazing weekend.”

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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Scoob_84 | 9 years ago
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I raise you Jack Bauer doing a wheelie at the summit of Ventoux

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J90 | 9 years ago
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Ha awesome. You can just about see them chatting about it beforehand.....
"Shall we pop some wicked awesome wheelies?"

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s_lim | 9 years ago
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2 complete LADS. Would love to see Jon D take stage 5

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banzicyclist2 | 9 years ago
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Brilliant  4

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Beaufort | 9 years ago
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Them's the boys.

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nicholassmith | 9 years ago
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That's wheelie good.

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