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Wiggle Dragon Ride.pngVideo: Dragon Ride Highlights footage released - see if you can spot yourself
Dragon Ride organisers have produced a highlights video of this year's event, which was held in South Wales, complete with epic music.
The Wiggle Dragon Ride, on 7 June, saw thousands of riders cover the course, with distances up to 300km. Fly-by footage shows the stunning scenery - its green mountains and valleys - off to great effect, and this is one definitely best watched in full-screen.
The three minute film, includes a lot of climbing and at least one slo-mo suffer face, and rightly so: the route is at times gruelling, with the Devil's Staircase gradient up to 25%, or an average 12%. Footage also depicts riders scaling The Bwlch mountain, a 6km climb with an average gradient of 6.1% (max 10%), before the heroes' welcome from adoring family and friends at the end.
In the video Tour de France winner Stephen Roche, said: "It's probably the closest the people...will get to riding a major stage of Tour de France."
If the video inspires you to give the ride a shot, entries for next year's ride open in October. Wiggledragonride.com
Laura Laker is a freelance journalist with more than a decade’s experience covering cycling, walking and wheeling (and other means of transport). Beginning her career with road.cc, Laura has also written for national and specialist titles of all stripes. One part of the popular Streets Ahead podcast, she sometimes appears as a talking head on TV and radio, and in real life at conferences and festivals. She is also the author of Potholes and Pavements: a Bumpy Ride on Britain’s National Cycle Network.
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confession. I am the owner of the slo mo suffer face at the top of the Devils elbow. I'm just glad there' s no sound as I was whimpering like a baby when I saw the cameraman. And I don't think it's a slo mo...
Great vid though, other than my O face
Btw video isn't embedded on road cc page if your viewing on iOS, you have to visit www.human race.co.uk
great stuff, this is on my calendar for next year after today's efforts on the Etape Eryri !
Lovely footage, looks fabulous. Nice Stolen Goat jersey shot there at the end Tim !