Mountain Biking in LA with Daniel Ricciardo, F1 Driver - Video

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OlavA (Mar 10, 2017 at 8:42)

Mountain biking - Because even F1 drivers need to do something fun and exciting every once in a while

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Highlander406 (Mar 10, 2017 at 15:38)

Pastor Maldonado was there but he crashed his bike before the filming started.

g123 (Mar 10, 2017 at 17:17)

@Highlander406 spot on!

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Allergysix (Mar 11, 2017 at 0:24)

McLaren Honda were on their way, but they broke down

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g123 (Mar 10, 2017 at 9:01)

Shooey! Danny is always the most genuine and coolest cat in F1, always has smiles for miles. Good luck in the RB13 this year!

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a-m-c (Mar 10, 2017 at 8:09)

what a life.

jrocksdh (Mar 10, 2017 at 8:39)

Gonna be an exciting season with the new cars. Miss the ol sounds, but at least they look the part again.

westeast (Mar 10, 2017 at 9:44)

Yeah, hopefully we don't have one team dominating the whole season. Fingers crossed.

graeme187 (Mar 13, 2017 at 2:02)

@westeast: good luck with that. Lewis is going to dominate in 2017. Bring it on

westeast (Mar 13, 2017 at 21:49)

@graeme187: Nope. 2017 will bring true chassis and engine parity among the top 5 teams. Hamilton, Alonso, Vettel, Ricardo, etc. will all be neck and neck going into the last few races....

graeme187 (Mar 14, 2017 at 3:16)

@westeast: I sense some sarcasm here.... but no, no it won't. Merc to dominate again

cck9 (Mar 10, 2017 at 9:03)

Between his love of mountain biking, and calling "Griffin" on that shot, Ricciardio is now my favorite Aussi to drive a Red Bull (sorry Mark).

Verbl-Kint (Mar 10, 2017 at 10:18)

Liberty Media is on the right track with having the drivers be more engaged on social media.

photosyn (Mar 10, 2017 at 8:25)

The specialized biking fitting(or any pro-fitting for that matter) is absolutely worth the few hundred dollars to get the bike dialed! Imagine if every pedal stroke (ever so) slightly torqued a muscle/ligament/tendon in the body. After the many thousands in a ride, plus the many rides in a week, it will wear on the body. I am a fan.

vinay FL (Mar 10, 2017 at 23:19)

Is it that expensive? As for how important it is, I think it really depends on the way you ride. If you mostly ride sat down and clipped in it is going to be very important. But if you're on flats and mostly stand up, your body will adapt if the bike is about right. Biggest risk for him is that it appears like he suddenly went on a long ride on an unfamiliar bike when his other training throughout the season is very different. No bike fitting will compensate enough.

photosyn (Mar 11, 2017 at 12:42)

@vinay: It cost me around $280. I can appreciate the sentiment with riding flats (I recently switched to the flat life as I left my clipless shoes at a fuking car wash). I was entirely skeptical of the sizing process, but was chronically injured and desperate to ride. Over the course of two hours they literally measure every extension of your body (reach and angle of arms, sitting bone width, leg angles, feet/arch height, while pedaling..etc), and adjust each corresponding component on the bike (stem, handle bar rise angle, brake lever angle, the width between petals, seat post length, your saddle width). They also take into account your riding style and adjust the bike dimensions for either more power or endurance. At the end, they record you pedaling in slow motion to look for any nuances in form. All I am saying is, if you spend thousands on a bike, might as well get your moneys worth out of the bike to get the most out of the ride.

vinay FL (Mar 11, 2017 at 13:32)

@photosyn: Oh yeah, I absolutely get what you're saying there. For a couple of years I had a side job in a bike shop. Next to the factory bikes (like Specialized, Cannondale and a cheaper German brand called Stevens) we also had a home brand, mostly for trekking and road cycling. So we welded up custom geometry steel frames or had a custom geometry titanium frame welded up by Litespeed. I never knew a road bike could be 11000euros! We did indeed measure people up and put them on a test mule to see how the geometry was working for them. Not sure but I think they actually got that money discounted if they went on to buy a bike. I wasn't involved in this process though so I'm not certain how long it took and how much it cost but yeah it took a fair while. But as I said, I think this matters mostly for people who spend a lot of time in the saddle, which definitely goes for road cyclists and world travelers. I'm not too sure how this translates to mountainbiking where you move the bike around underneath you when cornering, climbing, jumping, pumping and descending. Then again apparently Robotbike builds their bike around your measurements. So if I'd ever order one of their bikes, I'd surely have myself measured up properly

BartDM (Mar 10, 2017 at 9:31)

It is getting really bad with F1 if they start to things like this. Maybe it would be more interesting if they drive F1 cars with downhill bikes on it?

nug12182 (Mar 10, 2017 at 12:31)

nice reflectors.

nagaredama (Mar 10, 2017 at 10:19)

Bummed I didn't see him out on the local trails!

jrocksdh (Mar 10, 2017 at 13:38)

Looks like a few of you have missed out on the vettel-weber rivalry, Hamilton-rosberg rivalry, and a few of the max verstappen drives-especially in the wet. Yes, the hybrid 6 and narrow tires got boring but their were plenty of battles and technological advances.

Nchalmers (Mar 10, 2017 at 20:12)

I'm glad to see F1 drivers know how to do it (proper bike and no lycra). It seems like every time I see a professional Supercross rider on a mountain bike, they are on a hard tail 29 covered in lycra and it weirds me out.

timlake (Mar 13, 2017 at 6:21)

I don't think teams would be too pumped on their 6/7 figure salaried rider going out and pumping in DH laps with a massive risk of injury..

onemind123 (Mar 11, 2017 at 16:04)

Wow, a redbull vid that doesn't freeze up on me! Good job guys.

joemoto FL (Mar 10, 2017 at 20:35)

That was weak!

matadorCE (Mar 10, 2017 at 21:39)

Did he do a shoey after he got done with his bike ride?

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jo1212man (Mar 10, 2017 at 10:09)

Daniel's definitly a cool dude, but formula one, not so cool. I love the technological aspect of the sport, it really is mind blowing the the insane passion and determination that goes into creating the perfect racing machine. For any bike nerds its definitely worth checking out the plethora of cool F1 documentarys online, but ironically in spite of how impressive the engineering side of it may be their's no getting around the fact that the racing just sucks. Its so bad it really genuinely surprises me anyone watches it. And its only made worse when you hear the OBSCENE amounts of money that goes into. The top F1 teams have a budget of 500 million dollars a year. So yeah its pretty much a playground for rich white dudes.

xeren (Mar 10, 2017 at 11:05)

apparently the races are pretty fun to go to, but yeah, i tried to watch a few on TV and I couldn't keep it up. watching one multimillion dollar car not pass another multimillion dollar car for hours get pretty boring

drewjonespdx (Mar 10, 2017 at 11:07)

This is where technology is developed and eventually trickles down to the general consumer. Specatating is just a natural by-product.

xprswy (Mar 10, 2017 at 12:36)

The last exciting race was the Canadian Gran Prix 2014, and every race since has been a total snooze fest. Bernie Ecclestone seems to be on a mission to destroy F1.

jrocksdh (Mar 10, 2017 at 13:34)

Rich white dudes...you've just disqualified yourself from ever sounding rational-taken seriously.

timlake (Mar 13, 2017 at 6:23)

@xprswy: apart from Bernie doesn't actually have anything to do with F1 anymore.

Probably a good idea to read up on something before you trash-talk it.