This is the best thing we’ve seen for a long, long time. At the 2011 BUCS Student champs, ‘someone’ taped in a rather steep descent on the cross country course. Shot by Joe from This Is Sheffield, this video will make your Tuesday a much happier place…
We’ll get back to the proper news shortly…
I did the Student Champs at Ae last year, watching the DH was hilarious, and the racing the XC the next day was class, the downhill sections changed every lap, with new lines being created with rocks/tape/whatever came to hand.
some crash snaps if you want to see them! http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=627726532&aid=277017
[teletubbies voice]
Again! Again!
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Great stuff – the guy in the tomac-esque black skinsuit was ruling it
BUSA – enough said. Doesn’t matter what sport, student champs ALWAYS descend into carnage. I’d guess the DH is on the first day otherwise the DHers would be totally trolleyed before the race if it was on the Sunday. I was a competitve swimmer at uni and was equally chaotic. Us Scottish uni’s had a different take on relay changeovers – usually involving downing a beer, etc. And then there was the naked swimming…
To be fair, I got some great crashes on camera from when they used that course for DH races a few years back.
Great bit of track :o)
Loads of XC jeyboys in lycra who can’t ride down a hill, with their seats up their arseholes falling off. Brilliant.
Excellent! Was the pre-requsit to drink too much beer, then remove your rear brake?
Absolute quality – doesn’t look that steep tho…
i hope the 2012 Olympics will be like this!
Learn to ride, y’all. Look at this – another XC numpty trying to achieve the rad. #fail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UVXoLllWjc
Has there ever been such a collection of feckless numpties in one place at the same time ?
I love the fact its an Intense front triangle used for a cow bell. About all they’re worth…
haaaaaa busas, nice video… Put me on a trip back to memory lane.
As said previously it’s a bit of fair game. Saturnday XC jey-hey boy marshalling the DH and watching DH boy falling. Sunday it’s the other day around. 😀
‘kin students.
Whats that theme tune from originally? Some kids program in the 80’s – red hand gang?
@jimmy – Banana Splits.
@DaveyBoyWonder To be fair, most of the XC numpties seemed to get away lightly… it was the flat pedal, pie-friendly rucksack people falling off if you watch again.
@jimmy The tune is ‘Banana Splits’ by ‘The Dickies’. Best punk band ever.
surely there is someone at the top shouting front brake FTW or something cos they r s***!
Superb effort.
Great event and great track for making xc more of a spectator sport. The atmosphere was unreal. Thankfully not everyone had as much trouble. This is a 3 minute video, there were 250+ riders and 6 laps. So a lot of footage of people riding it has been left out. And rightly so. Who wants to see someone in lycra showing some technical ability?
Definitely one of the best bike videos of 2011.