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Video: Cyclist whizzes past motorbikers on descent ... and one of them isn't happy
Even if you haven’t ridden a long, snaking descent, you’ll know from watching the Tour de France and other races on TV that nothing is quicker going down one than a decent rider on a bicycle – remember Vincenzo Nibali’s winning attack in Il Lombardia last year when he zoomed past a couple of motos?
This video from Colombia shows the awkward moment when a pair of motorcyclists out on their bikes on a road near the capital Bogota were overtaken by a cyclist who’s clearly nailed his descending skills.
The biker in front is having none of it, though and gets back in front of the cyclist – not with the intention of giving him a tow, by the look of it – with the rider sensibly dropping back and expresses frustration to the other motorcyclist about his friend’s actions.
Of course, we couldn't mention a descent in South America without flagging up one of our all-time favourite videos - the Brazilian rider who drafted a lorry ... at 124kph.
Back to Europe, and here’s Nibali’s descent to win the autumn Monument last year.
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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I bow down to your personal experience.
An acquaintance of mine was moaning to me last month about all the cyclists who overtook him in his hire car descending off Mount Tiede. I just smiled!
Outed himself as lazy. He should have been up there at 2am, hiked up for the sunrise and been back down before the rangers showed up and the first cyclists were starting their climb
Really terrible positioning by the lead "motorcyclist". Nearly knocks off his mate as well as blocking the cyclist. As well as nearly getting taken out my the huge lorry coming around the corner.
Terrible positioning all round I would say. Doesn't seem to matter which side you overtake on either!
I guess, the bikers might have been pissed that it was technical an under take(or am I confused by which side you drive on ?), but they were really riding the centre line and there was lots of space on the underside. But I'm sure even fellow bikers would look at that and be embarrassed about how hard he had to work to get that over take done and being needlessly close.
Most people with an engine being over taken by a bicycle is akin to have the size of there manhood questioned.
What an arsehole. Complete sourgrapes so he almost causes the guy to stack because his dick is so shrivelled.
I had this with a small amount of bikers around Briançon last year. They would cut across the road when descending (and I was climbing) just to buzz me, for absolutely no reason.
2 wheels good, 4 wheels bad.
Looks like the motorbikeist is pretty green, super cautious! Not really news worthy, even for road.cc standards...
Sour grapes by the motorbiker there!
They can be a bit testy. I had a guy on a scrambler recently who overtook me, then he got caught at the lights, and repeat. He ended up taking it personally (?) and gave me a bit of 'tude and booted it, wheel span a bit, didn't seem totally in control. Tragic.
Usually they're good though, I treat them as brothers. We have enough issues with some car and van drivers but bikers are fellow free spirits.
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