Video: Cyclists try to free fat bike from electric fence

WTF! not using all the tools at their disposal; the handbar grips and saddle should be insulated, as should the soles of their shoes and their helmets.  It may even be easier to lift the bicycle on the other side of the fence.

The obvious question is why are they even crossing a cattle fence at all?  ... it suggests that they may have been trespassing on a farmer's land on either side!

I looks like they were damaging the fence too because both the wire and wood were moving!

I have ridden a fat-bike, however. They only really excel on beaches, everywhere else you're carrying extra weight, particularly in the worst place (the wheels). I've seen them at Llandegla pretty often, that's a manicured trail, I can get around there on my Tripster!

Anyway, nice video

Best thing I've seen for a while - well done boys

Ridiculous bike. 

Are they now going to pay the farmer to repair the mangled fence?

Um. Why didn't they just disconnect the battery in the corner of the field? 

I'm guessing everything was very wet and muddy, which is why they were getting shocks off the tyres, including their gloves.  The grips probably the same as the tires.

Now, would my thin black latex (tatooist) mechanic gloves have been enough of an insulator? 

Use of spare inner tubes, either as gloves or slings round the bars/saddle would have made that so much easier.

Hate to see what his paintwork looked like after this fiasco.

If this story isn't right up Bike Snob NYC's alley - another risk when climbing over electic fences - then I don't know what is.

That bike looks a bit muddy, they should wee on it to clean it up a bit before attempting to move it .

Surely the rubber handbar grips would be the best place to grab it, lift and untangle front wheel then take it round to the gate and over there...  Still wouldn't have been as much fun to watch.

I've also done this, to the hilarity of all present.

The farmer had raised the wire above the gate that I was lifting the bike through, but not high enough to avoid entangling a bike lifted at shoulder height.  Zap!

I also discovered that carbon fibre handlebars are electrically conductive.

Not dangerous to me, but my mates nearly peed themselves watching me dance. 

 any fule kno that gates are there for a reason. I hope the cyclists were cycling legally, bikes on wet pasture can cause a bit of damage!