Nothing much to say about this really, just watch and enjoy this fantastically executed face plant. It's a perfect ten, we reckon. If anyone knows who Ian is, let us know and we'll send him some road.cc socks for his star turn…
Video: Three peaks comedy faceplant
We could spend our whole lunch break watching this
Wed, Oct 03, 2012 11:56
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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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Terry Hutt 25 minutes ago
Suggest you pull this article, fix it, then bin it.
Terry Hutt 27 minutes ago
@ajd As well as confusing George Orwell with Orson Wells - clearly not proof read (at least, not by a different person)
Rendel Harris 33 minutes ago
@mdavidford One assumes it's referencing Nancy Mitford's famous "Noblesse Oblige" with its concept of U and non-U language, U being upper class and non-U the more flowery attempts to sound posh from the middle classes. I recall her decreeing that bicycle and bike were U and cycle was non-U, though she was of course a little early to rule on the difference between ATB and MTB.
Mr Blackbird 1 hour ago
On the subject of mountain biking, terrific rides by Tom Pidcock and Charlie Aldridge to take gold and silver in the UCI World Championships yesterday.
mdavidford 2 hours ago
Most puzzlingly: Firstly for the closing off of parentheses twice, but also, who are these people "in the U"? Is this some kind of slang the kids are using that I'm not down with?
Rendel Harris 4 hours ago
As I recall it made cycling more popular rather than doing for it...honestly, this article is an absolute dumpster fire of factual errors (Orson Welles did not write 1984 and Warner Bros do not organise MTB races) and grammatical and syntactical mistakes ("TV coverage is also, in no short order, what rings in the lion’s share of sponsorship money" - what?). What on earth happened?
Rendel Harris 5 hours ago
@Sriracha It is indeed ridiculous that one can buy these illegal machines just on a promise that one won't use it on public roads; almost as ludicrous as being able to buy a motor car that can do 230mph with a promise that one won't ever do more than 70mph. By all means let's have a crackdown on illegal electric motorcycles, but there should be simultaneous legislation restricting all cars to 70mph maximum with severe confiscate/crush penalties for any vehicle that has been modified to circumvent the restrictor.
Rendel Harris 5 hours ago
Yes, let's send in the army to go after the group that kills 1750 people a year and seriously injures 25,000 more, 85% of whom admit to breaking the law when it suits them. Shocking that these thugs have been allowed to get away with their illegal behaviours for so long and at such devastating cost to their victims and their families.
Rendel Harris 5 hours ago
@Steve K Yep, at the time I had a back wheel conversion ebike, fully legal kit from a reputable UK supplier, all three of my LBSs refused to do a front brake fluid replacement for me; they were very polite and apologetic but they all had a policy of only working on purpose-built ebikes from well-known manufacturers. One explained that there were plenty of falsely-badged dodgy kits around with 750W motors masquerading as 250W and they didn't want to risk any potential legal issues if they were found to have facilitated getting an illegal machine back on the road.
Ollie Smith 5 hours ago
@leedorney Nowt wrong with inner tubes, but if you'd have spent £100 buying tyres to use them tubeless I bet you'd be at least marginally annoyed.
37 thoughts on “Video: Three peaks comedy faceplant”
Oh dear…the internet is a
Oh dear…the internet is a cruel place!
Bless Ian! Come on Road.CC it
Bless Ian! Come on Road.CC it must be worth more than a pair of socks I think a ‘Road.CC’ L/S jersey should be sent to. Well caught on video!
Roberj4 wrote:Bless Ian! Come
Seconded 🙂
Roberj4 wrote:Bless Ian! Come
okay, deal. if we can find ian, he gets a jersey too. happy now?
Think Ian needs something to
Think Ian needs something to wash his (white!) bike down with (Disk brakes it does looks brand new!)I bet it’s still in the garage unwashed. I think some beer will do the trick (I know I’m pushing it!) 😀 😀 😀
Roberj4 wrote:Think Ian needs
Ian, is that you?!
Poor sod. At least it was a
Poor sod. At least it was a soft landing!
is that entry number 250 or
is that entry number 250 or 331 ???
250 ian gait
331 ian brown
looks like 331 to me
looks like 331 to me
actually i think it’s 333:
actually i think it’s 333: Ian Edward Ashworth
Contact
Contact keith@3peakscyclocross.org.uk who could inform Ian to contact you on his new found internet stardom and sock/jersey/beer haul #britainsgottalent
Roberj4 wrote:Contact
done and done 🙂
Quality! At least he came up
Quality! At least he came up smiling! 🙂
Just too funny.
=D> Just too funny.
and that is why i do NOT have
and that is why i do NOT have a CX bike.
Ian should enter again next
Ian should enter again next year draw an even bigger crowd!
Guess he should’ve carried
Guess he should’ve carried his bike over that soft bit like the others.
Having gone over the bars in a race a few weeks ago and knackered my wrist in the process I’m glad to see Ian had a softer, if wetter, landing.
Free gear?
I’m Ian.
Free gear?
I’m Ian.
I’m Ian and so’s my wife!
I’m Ian and so’s my wife! 😀
He’s not Ian, he’s a very
He’s not Ian, he’s a very naughty boy!
Lacticlegs wrote:He’s not
Not a naughty boy, a very dirty boy.
And Ian, Chapeau!
Good, but “joeys ok” still
Good, but “joeys ok” still makes me laugh…
Hey, we found him! he’s a
Hey, we found him! he’s a mate of Ashton from Hope.
😀
The “here’s mud in your eye”
The “here’s mud in your eye” line every time he goes down the pub with his mates is going to get tired pretty soon I reckon 😉
That’s a brand new Crosslight
That’s a brand new Crosslight Pro6 that he’s riding [well ‘not riding’]. Disc brakes are good, but sometimes they just can’t save you!
ah ha … found him !
and
ah ha … found him !
and “outed” by a mate too 😀
Chapeau, absolutely muddy
:)) Chapeau, absolutely muddy marvelous! :))
Here he is on a still from
Here he is on a still from the other angle. Smile on that muddy face is great.
brilliant pic! is it yours?
brilliant pic! is it yours?
Somebody tweeted yesterday
Somebody tweeted yesterday that CX was all about taking part and getting a funny photo of yourself on the Internet. If that is true; Ian is a legend! 🙂
Well done to Ian for being a
Well done to Ian for being a good sport — love the smile on his face in that photograph!
othello wrote:Well done to
I second that. I took a look at this years photos! Oh man it looked extra extra tough due to the weather conditions. Hats of to Ian and all who entered and finished.
I just had a nice chat to ian
I just had a nice chat to ian on the phone and I’ve bundled him up a jersey and some socks to go in the post. He’s unsure about his new celebrity status but deffo being a good sport about it. Yesterday when we put the story up the vid had received 134 views, now it’s on 11,000… who knows, it might ‘do a Joey’ 🙂
Some cracking photo’s from
Some cracking photo’s from British cycling’s flickr
This erm “puddle” seemed interesting
How to power though…..
How it can catch you out…..You might aswell swim….
Hi just like to say big
Hi just like to say big thanks to road cc for shirt and socks. Thanks for positive comments, had brilliant first ride of peaks.on behalf of fellow CSP riders thanks to support crews(wives, parents,kids& CSP).marshaling fantastic. Roll on 2013!
And now, there is the “Go on,
And now, there is the “Go on, Ian” T-shirt…
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/go_on_ian_shirt-235746016824305300
I hope they have permission
I hope they have permission for that 😉
But not as good as the joeys ok one’s. Need to get his muddy smile on them.
Also, hello and welcome Ian