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Vittorio Brumotti versus Barcelona traffic Facebook video still).PNGVideo: Vittorio Brumotti versus Barcelona traffic
Former world trials champion Vittorio Brumotti is one of the best stunt riders around – we’ve regularly featured him here on road.cc in videos such as Road Bike Freestyle or the ones he’s ridden in as an unofficial member of the Tinkoff team.
> More Vittorio Brumotti videos here
In his latest, appropriately suited and booted, he takes on the morning rush hour traffic in Catalonia’s capital Barcelona with spectacular results.
In the spot Brumotti seems to be on a hire bike – those of Barcelona’s Bicing scheme are red, as his is – but look more closely and you’ll see it’s a road bike.
The spot was filmed for Seat, maker of the Ateca 4x4 that the cyclist jumped out of to avoid the jam … but which arrives at his destination at the same time he does, no doubt due to all that larking around on rooftops.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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- Dadams7378 11 min 47 sec ago
Interesting, thanks, although I can't find them on Ali Express. Do you have a link?
- Muddy Ford 23 min 52 sec ago
They are ugly, and presumably require registration to use them. But the argument "it should be car parking instead" is absurd. Surely a camera and...
- LeadenSkies 30 min 17 sec ago
It's endemic now. Watched a skip lorry jump two reds within 100m on my commute this morning. No intention of stopping.
- brooksby 34 min 32 sec ago
And if they park on the cycle lane, they're still impacting the flow of traffic. Different traffic - two-wheeled, human-powered traffic rather...
- Patrick9-32 38 min 32 sec ago
Reducing prices dramatically on stock you have paid full price for means making a loss, margins in the bike industry are slim. You can't increase...
- cyclisto 54 min 20 sec ago
I strugle to think other as cool bikes as this. If my city was flatter and I fitter, I would drool over it....
- Cugel 1 hour 11 min ago
If RoadCC and similar specialist mass media organs were serious about being not just ethical about climate change factors but about the whole...
- chrisonabike 2 hours 4 min ago
Hellish! Barely used, clearly dangerous, slowing competent cyclists down while pandering to the clueless, a serious threat to pedestrians, won't...
- David9694 2 hours 32 min ago
"I ran into the back of him because I was traumatised by seeing the latest petrol prices, m'lud"
- hawkinspeter 3 hours 13 min ago
Are you sure? Norway is socialist and has a very high quality of life.
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Sadly the Boris bikes in Barcelona can only be hired by local residents because the bike hire shops didn't want to lose business.
A road bike as a city bike? Do they have the sort of Boris bikes and they just replaced them with road bikes for the shoot or are they actually renting road bikes for the masses? If yes, I want that in London!
Love the drops on the rental. Boris bikes shame on you
bloody cyclists!
nice basket though
looks a lot like my commute.