Video: More Red Hook Crit crashes - this time in qualifiers

You may have seen video of the huge crash caused by a stalled motorbike at the Red Hook Crit in Brooklyn, New York City on Saturday evening – and now, more footage has emerged showing that in the qualifiers too, the event lives up to its reputation for riders coming to grief.

> Video: Stalled moto causes massive stack at Red Hook Crit

Now in its ninth edition in New York City – it’s also expanded to Barcelona, London and Milan – the event is confined to fixed-gear bikes, so get a line into a corner wrong, for example, and you don’t have the get-out that a standard road bike’s brakes would give you.

Suffice to say there are bodies everywhere in this bikecam video of Saturday’s qualifiers posted to Instagram by user Biketuhl.

 

Nice try red hook, can't get rid of me that easy. Qualified for the finals #rhc #aventon #fixedgear #redhookcrit #singlespeed #aventonbikes #ridebiker

A video posted by Tristan Uhl (@biketuhl) on Apr 30, 2016 at 12:40pm PDT

Meanwhile, one of the riders involved in the crash with the motorbike at the start of the final, Manuel Velez, has shared a picture of his frame on Instagram; it’s a write-off.

 

After watching the video from last night's crash over and over. I realized what I hit was actualy the motorcycle. I hit the guy straight on, first my front tire then my elbow. After that I was under a pile of bikes and people Goodbye to the new frame that I was loving so much. Glad I'm ok. #redhookcrit

A photo posted by Manuel Velez (@manuelvelez_) on May 1, 2016 at 7:21am PDT

And just to show that the Red Hook Crit isn’t just about the crashes, here’s a video from Specialized showing its apparel and technical graphics designer, McKenzie Sampson, coming up with custom designs for a bike, shoes, helmet, and skinsuit used in New York.

Specialized will be doing similar customisations for the other three events in the series this year.