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Martyn Ashton's Road Bike Party - the out-takes

Extra scenes and gaffes from the viral vid that's been seen over five million times...

Well, it's been a whirlwind tour for Martyn Ashton's Road Bike Party. When we stuck it on the site ten days ago it had just been uploaded, now it's sitting pretty with a frankly astonishing five million views. It's proper gone viral, as we assume teh kidz are saying.

Martyn's been promising an out-takes vid ever since the final cut went up, and we're happy to announce that it's now live on Youtube and also embedded below for your viewing pleasure. Martyn reveals that the sole damage to the Pinarello Dogma was a puncture and a couple of stratches, that's despite some pretty impressive offs during filming, including *that* bunker backflip. There's a bunch of cool stuff that didn't make the final edit too.

Anyway, it's Friday. So stop reading, and enjoy!

Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.

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Peter_Mould | 11 years ago
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These outtakes definitely marked a great start to my Friday! This guy is an absolute champion, and quite possibly the reason why I took up cycling as my primary form of commute after my last car broke down due to faulty swirl flaps. I tried to carry out some stunts, but the most I could do are some lame bunny hops, but hey, that’s something! I’m now in the midst of trying wheelies, it’s not too easy so I guess there goes my dreams to be the next Martyn Ashton.

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andyspaceman | 11 years ago
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Absolute legend. So glad to see he's still got it - and using it. Such a big influence, and helped get me hooked on the way of the wheel after I got my first MTB 16 years ago. Lost count of the number of times I watched 'Chainspotting' and 'Dirty Tricks & Cunning Stunts' on VHS.

I had to type that last bit carefully...

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Raleigh | 11 years ago
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Sound Of Guns - Angels and Enemies

(midomi, much better than shazam imo)

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Grannycog | 11 years ago
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does anyone know the song on this vid?

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colhum1 replied to Grannycog | 11 years ago
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Grannycog wrote:

does anyone know the song on this vid?

As Raleigh says Sound of Guns
The track is called Sometimes

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OptimalCadence | 11 years ago
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almost as good as the original...

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antonio | 11 years ago
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So glad my request was met, Brill.

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bernieaidy | 11 years ago
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He's only human after all .1st class.  1

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tourdelound | 11 years ago
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Seen Martyn twice on his Animal Bike Tour, and he is an amazing rider. Such bike handling skills must years of hard work and dedication.

Wonder how many hours the original video took to shoot?  39

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Gkam84 | 11 years ago
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Brilliant, I've been wanting to see this since I saw the video. Now to get to a computer  4

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