Cracking video (below) from French Prankster Remi Gaillard, this. The infamous joker set up a full size mountain finish on a French Col, complete with fans, film crews, a 2CV support car, motorbike outriders and a man in his underpants, then filmed the reactions of sunday cyclists as they were mobbed by the adoring crowd at the summit. Reactions were, shall we say, mixed. One guy gets right into the spirit of things, telling the interviewer that "the mountain was very steep" while holding the winner’s cup and wearing a viking helmet. Another chap is more bemused: "I’m not part of your race", he repeats to the oblivious crowd. Excellent stuff.
“I’m not part of your race”
Tue, Sep 08, 2009 10:39
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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 likes to ride increasingly long audaxes decreasingly fast as time goes by.
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belugabob 7 minutes ago
@bob.sweet it also proves that cyclists aren't the issue
belugabob 12 minutes ago
@mitsky you may be thinking of taxi drivers
AidanR 14 minutes ago
@belugabob I don't think that makes much difference on a long descent
belugabob 14 minutes ago
@AidanR i feel that it's more to do with higher sustained speeds, which comes from better training, nutrition and fitness
AidanR 29 minutes ago
I'm calling BS on the increased speeds being a significant factor. Sure, aerodynamics have gotten a bit better, but all the aero tech in the world doesn't change the fact there's a lump of un-aero human in the middle. If speeds coming into corners on descents are up by 5km/h I'd be surprised.
ktache 51 minutes ago
@polainm Never a good look badly arresting a Paralympian, good resistance from them too. Wear the "mischief" charge with pride. Chapeau.
Terry Hutt 1 hour ago
Make 'em all ride Huffys. That'll slow them down and have the secondary benefit of stopping all those pro-bike thefts. They do a very nice beach cruiser with a handy basket on the front. I'd love to see the peloton huffing up Mont Ventoux on those.
bob.sweet 2 hours ago
The M25 clearly proves the point that you cannot remove congestion by building more road space, that just increases the number of motor vehicles.
mitsky 3 hours ago
@mdavidford But then the cows (being smarter than the drivers who end up on bike lanes) would quickly learn they aren't made of grass and stay away permanently.
the infamous grouse 3 hours ago
there would be 'interesting' rollover and braking load vectors on the novbyx rear axle, but the sliding BB design could be a novel solution for belt drive use.
7 thoughts on ““I’m not part of your race””
Brilliant laughed my head
Brilliant laughed my head off.
Utter genius!
Utter genius! 🙂
Remi is a comic genius in the
Remi is a comic genius in the best traditions of Jacques Tati.
His football videos are well worth a look – you can find those, and much more, here:
Warning: Maybe not in work time if you have stuff to do this afternoon – you could spend ages on these 😉
The third guy is the funniest
The third guy is the funniest – he just goes along with it
Just watched all the way
Just watched all the way through – won’t spoil it, but almost fell off my chair laughing at Remi’s last line 😀
Funniest thing I’ve seen for
Funniest thing I’ve seen for ages…..
Brilliant!!!!
Brilliant!!!!