As Martyn Ashton and friends have proven, skinny-tyred bikes are a lot more capable – in the right hands – than most of us realised. But how do skinny tyres cope with a full-on downhill mountain bike course?
Top Austrian Masters class racer Peter Deppner isn't quite shredding the Semmering downhill track on his Scott flat-bar road bike in this video, but he's hardly hanging about either.
Aside from one minor mechanical hiccup, fixed with a good old set of mark one fingers, Deppner makes it through some pretty hairy sections intact and rubber side down.






















5 thoughts on “Video: Flat-bar road bike v Austrian mountain bike downhill”
Hat off to Peter, I wouldn’t
Hat off to Peter, I wouldn’t of lasted a second. Got the skills and got the humour to do it. Bravo! 😀
Haha, mental. When he stopped
Haha, mental. When he stopped to fix his dropped chain, he realised he has a flat tyre as well…no point in stopping though, is there? B-)
Austrian:” Oida, du host koa Luft drinnen” -> “Dude, you’ve got no air(in your tire)”
Genius.
Genius.
Drop bars next?
Drop bars next?
nothing short of amazing and
nothing short of amazing and I speak as a mountain biker =D>