Pray For Speed
 

Nice work IMO

https://youtu.be/H7JYmQf9jwU

Nah, not my thing.

Not required.

I enjoyed it, as well. Well made video. He's a totally right about it being the unseen side of cycling IMO. How often do you get to follow a single athlete during a World Tour race as they descend at similar speeds? Never. I particularly enjoyed 10.57-11.24.

"I've had many accidents, that's part of cycling" 2 mins after footage of insanely dangerous riding in traffic.

Nor is it nice work. But tomato tomahto.

Get over yourself it's just bike riding.

I'm not surprised that Lucas Brunelle is associated with this video ("additional footage").

Crossing the yellow line going down Palomar on a blind corner with a car and a motorcycle coming up is not "just bike riding."

But sure, let's lionize a guy giving the rest of us a bad name with wildly irresponsible descending.

Haven't we seen this before

Same cyclist, different videos:

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=243919

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=262680

The descending is cool and all but certainly dangerous on roads open to traffic. His riding style amongst the traffic is just plain dumb. When he gets smoked I don't want to read it was the driver's fault.

That guy is gonna get himself kilt.

And killed!

Yes, depending on the road, killed as well.


Red Kite Prayer Patrick used to have to some pretty good times on the same roads:


https://citsb.com/2012/10/11/dont-cry-for-me/
https://redkiteprayer.com/2017/01/that-day/
https://redkiteprayer.com/2014/05/th...rn-of-mr-mojo/

I looked at the picture of Patrick, chunks of his face torn off, blood clotted and sprayed and spread all over, and am ashamed to say my first thought was, “Goddamn I’m glad that isn’t me.”

That instinctive millisecond of selfish self-loving self preservation passed, just like it does in a race when your buddy hits the deck and you shudder with relief that you were spared. Then humanity kicked in. “What a terrible crash; hope he’s okay; hope his neck and spine are okay; hope he doesn’t have a closed head injury; hope he’s not hurt nearly as bad as he looks…”

Life is punctuated by BAM’s.

Patrick’s latest BAM happened today on Tuna Canyon. Tuna’s a one-way mountain road that, along with its treacherous neighbor Las Flores, has taken lives and cracked many a bone. If there’s a more difficult descent in LA County, I don’t know what it is. John Wike holds the downhill speed record, well over 55 mph, which, on a twisting descent on a bike, is faster than NASCAR. He set it in a full facemask and body armor.

And although you don’t need to know anything more about Tuna than that it can put you in a can, quickly, you do need to know that Patrick is intimately familiar with the road’s every twist. For him it’s a road that holds no surprises except, of course, for the surprises. The new crack in the pavement or the bit of cliff that’s now laying in the road or the slick spot or the…whatever.

Whatever it was that caught him out happened on the last turn, and by the next frame he was skidding on his face in soft dirt at speed. You might not think he was lucky, but then again, I haven’t yet told you that he missed a giant log by a couple of feet. If he’d hit it, we’d be planning a funeral right now.

BAM.