That was from the guy who asked a little too much of the brakes on his vintage bike that normally just sees city commuting duty.

I’m amazed he didn’t go down, apparently the rear blew up near the hairpin you can see in the background of the photo, and he managed to keep it upright (despite the tube wrapping around the cassette) until he got to that flatter section with some lawn on the roadside.

In no particular order

it would seem councils aren’t that different across the globe then. When they resurfaced the descent off Corkscrew Rd ahead of the 2013 TDU, instead of just resurfacing the whole thing they decided to just do the patches that needed it.

While it did result in some beautiful new road in patches, at one point those patches were separated by less than 1m of old road, surely it wouldn’t have killed the budget to just join the two sections…

Great rap video too!

That looks like a ton of fun (especially the Leffe bit at the conclusion). All the pictures were backwards though, it looks like you’re on the wrong side of the road.

We are, we live dangerously down here !

Regarding the scuffed up bidon in one of the last photos. Are there cages that don’t do that to your bidons? I can’t imagine there are, or they wouldn’t hold them in properly. I have quite a few Camelbak Podium bottles that are all scuffed. Part of me says scuffed bidons are bad form, the other part of me says it’s stupid to replace working gear simply due to scuffs. That money could be spent on things I actually need.