Friday Entertainment

by Jen See on Mar 26, 2010 2:45 PM EDT in Cafe Happy Hour!

Juan Antonio Flecha descends the Cipressa with a helmet cam.

It sorta made me dizzy.

Happy Friday!

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Gav, where are you finding these amazing vids?!

First the longboard, now this! Looks like you’re going through a downhill racer sorta phase… :-)

by nicknorco on Mar 26, 2010 2:57 PM EDT reply actions

Ha!

This one came off the twit, same as the skaterz. And yes, going downhill fast seems to be the theme of the past two days!

Michael Barry uploaded this, and it’s on his blog too.

by Jen See on Mar 26, 2010 3:00 PM EDT up reply actions

btw

This is the skate viddy nicknorco is talking about:
http://www.wimp.com/beautifullongboarding

by Jen See on Mar 26, 2010 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions

It just goes to show where my comforts are

I was thinking during the Flecha video that he must be taking it a bit easy cause of the camera and the traffic (makes sense) whereas that longboarding video freaks me right out. Two wheels good, four….teenie, tiny wheels….yikes.

by LawrenceS on Mar 26, 2010 7:08 PM EDT up reply actions

No, you're not crazy

That skate viddy should freak you out. Bikes have brakes. Skates don’t. And if anything, the camera underestimates the gradients on that descent. Silly steep.

by Jen See on Mar 26, 2010 7:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Thanks.

It’s always nice to watch a master of his/her craft in action. Reminds me of those crazed kayaker videos.

Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. Louis J. Helle, Jr.

by flying dog on Mar 26, 2010 9:53 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, I saw

this the day before MSR, and when they got to that part during MSR, I was all “hey, I know this road.”

/obvious observation is obvious.

by Sui Juris on Mar 26, 2010 3:01 PM EDT reply actions

and you didn't share?

generous one, ain’t ya.

by Jen See on Mar 26, 2010 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions

Terribly.

If I know about something, and don’t see it anywhere else, I just presume that I missed it and that I’m the last one. Typical, really.

by Sui Juris on Mar 26, 2010 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions

I saw it somewhere too, but I thought it was here...

maybe somebody posted in in one of the pre-MSR threads?

I love the parts where you see his shadow on the road. And when he passes that car.

I maybe don't always realize just how big some races are--Edvald Boasson Hagen, still fucking with the journalists

by majope on Mar 26, 2010 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions

It was in the first live thread

But still, more is better!

Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja men who know how to twirl.

by TheFigurehead on Mar 26, 2010 3:44 PM EDT up reply actions

As if.

I was sound asleep during the first thread.

by Jen See on Mar 26, 2010 5:35 PM EDT up reply actions

Yep I think I did post it in the pre-MSR threads

or the first MSR-live thread at least.

Direct youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tem95i2KHl8
MBarry blog: http://michaelbarry.ca/2010/03/cipressa-descent/

by tedvdw on Mar 26, 2010 9:23 PM EDT up reply actions

So that is what it is like to know what you are doing

Judging from the helmet cam, he did not look at the scenery, the gears, various parts of the handle bars. He didn’t try to read the graffiti on the walls while riding. I could tell he was actually looking at where he wanted to go.

I just ‘paid attention’ vicariously through J.A. Flecha. Thanks Gavia!

by 4estru on Mar 26, 2010 5:57 PM EDT reply actions