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Video: Cinelli bike races McLaren supercar across New York City

Cycling filmakers Casey Niestat and Lucas Brunelle taken on challenge

A video from Mashable pits two well-known cycling film makers against one another in a race across New York City – Lucas Brunelle on a Cinelli bike, and Casey Neistat driving a McLaren 675LT.

Neistat – best known for his Bike Lane video – concludes that “supercars are awesome but useless in New York City” as he is held up at a succession of red lights on the way from the Williamsburg Bridge over the East River to the Museum of Natural History on the Upper West Side.

Brunelle, who has achieved a certain level of notoriety through films focusing on alleycat racing, including one shot in London, isn’t going to let traffic lights get in his way, and even manages a stop for waffles on the way.

See how they got on in the video below.

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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Biffer | 9 years ago
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Biffer | 9 years ago
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Absolute twat. Trying to show that getting across town by cheating and riding irresponsibly is not a positive promotion of cycling. There are far better examples of this being acheived than seeing crap like this. Please delete it, it only serves to raise his profile.

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keepontriking | 9 years ago
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What's this dangerous and harmful rubbish doing on this site?

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jellysticks | 9 years ago
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Lucas Brunelle is a fucking idiot and needs to stop making these stupid videos. He just rides like an utter twat in all of them. Plus one for asking road.cc to get rid of this please!

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arfa | 9 years ago
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I recently completed the ride London 100 and very nice it was too with no one stopping at traffic lights but steaming past children being escorted across roads doesn't make you an aspirational cyclist, it makes you a fucking dickhead.
Yes certain states permit right turns on red lights but let's face it, that's not what we're talking about.

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redscouse | 9 years ago
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I recently completed the new york century ride 100 miles across the city on normal roads and cycle paths, i'd still be completing it if we stopped at every red light. there were no closed roads.

a little unusual maybe in that there were obviously big groups on the road, however speaking to new york cyclists and witnessing cycling behaviour on other days it seems to be the norm that you jump the red light if safe to do so...nobody was lynched and nobody was threatening to lynch anyone

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harrybav | 9 years ago
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Yup, he is wilfully idiotic. Dreadful anti-social roadcraft, agreed. Obviously not popular with self-identifying Cyclists, generously sharing their fury. But I struggle to get angry. New York looks nice. Maybe he makes cycling aspirational for those idiot car poster buyers. Probably not. Better than more stories about people getting killed while cycling, in my book. Who doesn't like seeing waffles? The guy screaming at the red car driver about his amazing "ride" was scary!

Maybe I'm wrong to just not care about this that much.

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DrJDog | 9 years ago
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concur - video made me turn it off as soon as he blasted through those pedestrians at the start. What a shaft.

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djpalmer32 | 9 years ago
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Agree with some of the others. Delete this article as it promotes total disregard for public safety and traffic laws, no matter what country you are.

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CXR94Di2 | 9 years ago
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Dangerous risky riding. What is the point?

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SuperG | 9 years ago
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What an idiot....might have to sell my Cinelli  2

 

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DaveE128 | 9 years ago
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And besides, has he not heard of GoPro?  3 Maybe the oversized headgear makes him invincible?  7

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arfa | 9 years ago
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Dear oh dear, has Brunelle set out to become a pastiche of the worst cycling stereotypes refererred to on the daily wail website? He really has got it down to a T.
A total bell.

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aslongasicycle | 9 years ago
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Lucas Brunelle is an enemy to cycling as a whole. I'd 'love' to meet him and discuss his selfishness one day.

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Chris | 9 years ago
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I find cycling across town much quicker than driving even without riding like a dick, so I'm pretty sure the point of the video was simply so Lucas could show off and keep thinking he's great.

A pensioner on a Pashley would alsoi have beat the car through NYC, making a good point at the same time.

Silly fellow.

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atlaz | 9 years ago
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Just to echo what the others say. I don't even need to watch it to guess that he rides like the worst sort of twat. Absolute knobber who needs a Katie Hopkins - Indy style oxygen removal. Who would possibly imagine that a busy city where a driver obeys the rules and a cyclist flaunts them is likely to have the cyclist winning the race whether it's a supercar or a trabant.

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Iamnot Wiggins | 9 years ago
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I fail to see the point in this?  A bike will always be quicker in a heavily congested city setting.  And I echo KiwiMike on this; bloke is an utter knob and this article seriously needs deleting.

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KiwiMike | 9 years ago
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Brunelle is a Grade-1 fuckwit. Only 30 seconds in he risks killing a child to blow through a pedestrian crossing, complete with adult crossing guard holding a stop sign. 

This is video serves no purpose in any responsible cycling forum and gives Brunelle oxygen he so badly does not deserve. Please delete this article. Seriously. 

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DaveE128 replied to KiwiMike | 9 years ago
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Was this video sponsored by the taxi drivers' union?!

KiwiMike wrote:

This is video serves no purpose in any responsible cycling forum and gives Brunelle oxygen he so badly does not deserve. Please delete this article. Seriously. 

I quite agree. Seriously, this video is idiotic.

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