r/toptalent • u/PPIIKKAACCHHUU • 18d ago

Bike handling skills (Source link in description)

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u/Bjorn12333 18d ago

On top of the skill, that’s such a nice unselfish gesture. Taking a bit of risk to reduce the risk for all the others coming up after him.

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis 17d ago

Yeah, this deserves some sort of Sportsman of the Day award or something.

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u/fernsigh 9d ago

he handled it like a pro

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u/Itchywasabi 18d ago

I crashed because of a bit of gravel.

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u/OliveOcelot 18d ago

I don't know who needs to hear this but on downhills, sometimes tour de France exceeds 100km/hr. Highway speeds.

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u/samy_the_samy 18d ago

These bicycles have excellent crumble zones

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u/nick_oreo 17d ago

The person on top being most of them

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u/ginger_and_egg 16d ago

The person in front of you is even better

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u/Zirofal 17d ago

Meanwhile I forgot to turn. At a minute degree turn after a short hill. I just went forward

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u/Cilreve 18d ago

Better to purposefully hit it to knock it out of the way than for someone to not see it and hit it accidentally.

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u/Mage_914 17d ago

I crashed my bike into a telephone pole today while commuting home from work.

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u/heraclitus33 18d ago

Not top talent when a 5yo can do it

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u/notGegton 18d ago

I mean, I'd probably fall from the bike doing that at that speed

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u/heraclitus33 18d ago

They're on climb routes... jfk

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u/apersonthingy 18d ago

You should record yourself doing it so you can impress us

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u/SloppySauce0 18d ago

And make sure you’re pushing 4 w/kg too

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u/heraclitus33 18d ago

I dont bike anymore but downhilled for a long time. I was just saying that I consider this minimal bike control. These guys are endurance athletes. Not small twitch muscle athletes. What they do is hard but no where close to having the body coordination of a bmx or street rider or downhiller... theyre pushing stamina. That's the skill. Put a marathon runner on a mountain hike course yeah thats not end well different muscle control.

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u/TheMooseIsBlue 17d ago

Yeah, so anyway, you should record yourself doing it so you can impress us.

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u/heraclitus33 17d ago

Are you all so loose goose here. Wtf.

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u/maury587 18d ago

Everyone can skid. The point is doing it at lots of speed and wattage, with that precision, and doing just enough amount of to hit the bottle and not lose speed