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Sir Bradley Wiggins running up The Struggle (picture credit leeblack321 on Instagram).jpgWiggo does a Froome - and runs up Tour of Britain climb (+ video)
Sir Bradley Wiggins may have been the first British rider to win the Tour de France – but he’s only the second yellow jersey winner from the country to be spotted running up a climb - with video of the moment he briefly swapped two wheels for two feet now posted to Instagram.
In scenes reminiscent of Chris Froome’s run up Mont Ventoux at the Tour de France on Bastille Day, Wiggins was snapped yesterday hot-footing it up the Cumbrian climb appropriately named The Struggle.
We're pretty sure the quick-thinking photographer shown jumping out is the one responsible for this picture posted to Twitter.
@OfficialWIGGINS brilliant, simply brilliant! #tourofbritain #wheresfroome #legend pic.twitter.com/qUZmfownZN
— DM Photography (@danmon_81) 5 September 2016
Froome’s impromptu run on Mont Ventoux was due to his bike being broken in a crash and a neutral service one proving to be the wrong size and with incompatible pedals.
> Video: Chris Froome vs Mont Ventoux - the slapstick version
Yesterday, however, Wiggins was pushing his own bike along towards the mist-shrouded summit of the 4.5km long climb, which has an average gradient of 8% and reached 20%.
With the 36-year-old’s season focused on winning his fifth career Olympic gold medal at Rio, where he helped Team GB win the team pursuit, and the Tour of Britain effectively an extended victory lap ahead of his retirement in November, we think most fans would forgive him.
Certainly the spectators in this picture posted to Instagram seem to find the funny side of Wiggins running past while pushing his bike - and having now seen the video and the fact he did it for such a short time, it seems there may have been a bit of 'nuge nudge, wink wink,' about the whole episode.
Wiggins’ jog wasn’t the only talking point from the climb, with Mark Cavendish caught on camera stopped by the side of the road, having a bit of a word with a spectator.
> Video: Mark Cavendish stops on Tour of Britain climb to 'have word' with fan
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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- brooksby 0 sec ago
Yes - you keep them in a box with an X on a map to mark the spot
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Bro needs to be in primary position.
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Cycling infrastructure does not force drivers to break the law, drivers are the reason they break the law, no one else.
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Well, as us old gits in Lycra say the is'nt a hill anywhere in England that you can't walk up !
Well if you got anything left to run up a hill that ain't bad. Lol
Monumentally taking the piss and I love him for it, even if he didn't quite get the loping run right
Of course he was having a laugh
https://youtu.be/54UJrlbPmDA
That must be one of them Push Bikes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mq59ykPnAE
They don't make them like they used to.
Made me laugh. Definitely done for fun. Well done Wiggo.
Wiggins was only joking, that's for sure. But considering Froome's won three times as many Tours (so far) I think he gets the last laugh.
I'm fairly sure Froome would see the funny side...
Maybe not with Brad having won infinity times as many Olympic gold medals.
Maybe not with Brad having won infinity times as many Olympic gold medals.
'he had the tour won for him'. ffs.
He's enjoying the last few days of his career and giving the fans something to smile about. The sport will be the worse for his retirement.
THATS A CLASSIC ONE...
Wiggo was sat on the back of the pack for most of the race on TV... to be fair the route and the pace looked brutal.. one hell of a race yesterday, cummings is a freak, if he's have made that Ettix chap pull more he'd have won it.
If Wiggins wants to cartwheel up a hill off the back of the grupetto singing I've got a Lovely bunch of coconuts, he'd still be alright with me, whatever the reasons for this photo, off the back of the Olympics carrying all that extra weight he's not there to win it is he.
that I would love to see
He's either taking the piss or reinforcing my opinion that he had the tour won for him... Surely a current professional rider who's won a tour shouldn't struggle up any 'struggle', race pace or not...
Yeah, obvious given his palmares is so piss poor... FFS
Well it seems unlikely to be that he's taking the piss, so you must be on to something...
well its about the same speed as he goes downhill.....
Aye ! It's not called the Struggle for nowt !
This stretch of road is IMO is a lot harder than Hardknott Pass. Curiously both of these roads are Roman in origin. Bradley 's legs must have Caesared up !
Snort!! So what have the Romans ever done for us?!
Brought pain?
Pain?! Shut up!
Hardknott and The Struggle are both pigs, but Hardknott fills me with more apprehension than The Struggle. Maybe it's because I work at the college just at the foot of the climb and am more familiar with it that I don't think it's as tough as Hardknott. It's definitely longer, and is very steep for much of the 4km, but Hardknott is just a wall with very tight hairpins, you can't get into a rhythm like you can on t'Struggle. Just my opinion though. I might go home over it tonight, that might make me think again!
Yep ! I live in Kendal and believe you me I know both climbs fairly intimately. Nowadays I leave both climbs well alone cos I'm sixty seven and have got the T shirts. But apart from the 30% bend on Hardknott which comes after 101 miles of the Fred Whitton, and can be a right bastard , the Struggle is equally if not more challenging especially the last 25% kick up to the Kirkstone Inn ! Of course this is my opinion and your legs are probably decades younger than mine !
So glad to read that: I really labour up the struggle and am planning to have a go at Hardknot soon (with a view to doing the Fred Whitton next year, hopefully). Nice to think that I've done the worst of the climbs
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Where's all the Vuelta news. Turning out to be the best Tour of the year.