Video: TDO crew take on Cheddar Gorge

Take your mind off work and all that rain with this nice vid

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by dave_atkinson on August 4, 2011 - 11:01

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What's the weather like round your way? It's chucking it down here in Bath. And it's all muggy. So, if you put on a jacket you'll get sweaty and if you don't you'll get soaked. Who'd be a cyclist, eh?

Plus there's all that work to do. Life's tough sometimes. Tell you what, take three and a half minutes out of your day and watch this nice video of trackdropouts riders Ed, Christian and Tim getting all scenic in Cheddar Gorge. Shot and edited by Brad Bishop, it's guaranteed* to cheer you up. It features fixed bikes, lycra, cows, caps, interesting rock formations and Ed's moustache, so there's literally something for everyone. Enjoy.

*unless you're a right grumpy old sod

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Quite charming. And the music sounds like Durutti Column too.

posted by michophull [59 posts] 4th August 2011 - 11:30

What were the three fixies? one looked like a charge?

posted by Jonathan Reeves [44 posts] 4th August 2011 - 14:04

1 x Cinelli Mash
1 x 14BikeCo custom
1 x Bob Jackson Vigorelli

Hope that helps!

posted by timwilkey [4 posts] 4th August 2011 - 16:28

There are two very steep bends near the bottom of Cheddar Gorge: if they went up those on fixed, respect. I'd like to have seen it though. We mainly see them spinning their little legs off going down the Gorge. Are we being bamboozled with fixie propaganda here? Is someone trying to impress a girl? Did they fly down and then do a hundred metres upwards, on a shallow bit, for the camera? We should be told.

posted by bikeylikey [86 posts] 6th August 2011 - 7:59

As a dedicated fixed gear man I say this is a great little video but they don't seem to twiddle as fast as I do going downhill, but then again, they do spin faster than me going up.

antonio

posted by antonio [419 posts] 6th August 2011 - 9:41

Hi there.

Haha, yes we rode all the way up it. Its not an irregular occurrence for us to ride the gorge. Its not too difficult on 67 GI which is what the majority of us ride (75 has also been done at Cheddar). If you ride any distance fixed in the Bristol area you best be used to hills!

You may notice the guy with the moustache in full on grimace mode, that's during the bottom ramp (about 5 corners up?) where you go through the narrow bit between the rocks.

I am not sure why I am trying to legitimise this. It's not that steep a hill barring the ramp at the bottom. Is it really that mind boggling?

posted by timwilkey [4 posts] 6th August 2011 - 19:10

I've managed it on 67" after two pints of thatcher's gold on an evening jaunt and i can confirm that tim did too, and christian and ed were off up the hill like a shot. we didn't see them again for about 5 miles...

posted by dave_atkinson [4775 posts] 6th August 2011 - 21:27

Very 'Chasing Legends'-esque; really like this! We've got tentative plans to holiday there again this year having ridden it three times last year; you've just made me definitely want to go there again.

posted by elloabarbour [1 posts] 6th August 2011 - 21:57

Like the locked wheel skid at 03:12. You have to have some confidence in your rubber to do that at speed...

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