The peloton of the Tour de France may seem like a serious bunch but it's not just about watts, waaiers and weight saving, sometimes it's about wheelies too. These vloggers organised an impromptu wheelie competition for riders on the final climb of Sunday's Stage 15 and a fair few pros joined in the fun. The winner on the day was Team Qhubeka NextHash's Max Walscheid who managed a 174 metre wheelie up a steep switchback before finishing the stage in 140th place, 30 minutes behind stage winner Sepp Kuss.
| We organised a Wheelie Context in the Tour de France and the whole peloton joined in! Who beats current champion Oliver Naesen?! |
One of the best hucks I have ever seen was in a tour race ~a decade ago. Downhill, around a corner, the yellow jersey came in waaaay to hot. Straight out the back of the corner, and into someone's very steep downhill driveway. 5 ft huck to flat on a damn road racer. Back in it and saved the jersey. Can't recall who that was.
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Also, not really a fair contest with Sagan and van der Poel not in the race anymore ;-).
That was super fun to watch those have a go at wheelies after so many miles of brutal riding.
Reckon Wyn Masters would be all over that?
I did not understand the blocking either. The vid made it to here, so it created an even wider audience for road racing than usual. ASO is quite protective though - broadcasters pay good money for racing footage. You could argue if this really is 'race' footage and they probably did that succesfully to have the vid reuploaded.
I don't know about you !?
But i'm glad that we have Wyn
in the MTB races - community ,
It could be good to have more like him !
technically, if you are over 20% slower than the stage winner, you get the hook.
The OP was just a "joke",
in Wyn's spirit,
( "not bad, good size" ) ect ect !
But you guys "just hate to hate" !
Wyn voice :
Over and out !
I know it!
Thanks bud !
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.. just saying youtu.be/DumWgdISahE