Indeed. I remember doing one of my first cross country races on a rigid bike with very fat, bouncy, crap traction tires. I crashed a lot!FULL rigid even!
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Indeed. I remember doing one of my first cross country races on a rigid bike with very fat, bouncy, crap traction tires. I crashed a lot!FULL rigid even!
By really fat do you mean 1.95?Indeed. I remember doing one of my first cross country races on a rigid bike with very fat, bouncy, crap traction tires. I crashed a lot!![]()
OMG the drama! That was crazy sh|tThat was nuts...it was a great race before, but it just exploded - and Swiss TV completely missed it. One guesses Mathias wasn't having Nino beating him, after the two races last year......
Nino looked gutted, and furious - Mathias, slightly disappointed.......
Pinkbike has loads of comments, but no vids have surfaced yet. Sounds like MF might have tried too aggressive an inside pass and wiped them both out. #hownottopassGreat races both!
Congrats LL and LB!
Has anyone found footage of what happened with N1no and MF?
I'm buying a Commencal, those things (BEEEBIN) fly!
Nino stopped shortly in the finish area and shouted something to MF (who was lying on the ground) and then he just went to the back and cried a bit... no physical insult after the race.Read some rumours about Nino hitting/slapping Flueckiger after the finish... Not the way a champion should behave but imo totally understandable given what was at stake: beating Absalon's record at home.
Don't know why but something about Flueckiger seems off to me (as someone who only watches this guys in a stream)... doesn't seem as the most liked guy and seems always very aggresive on the bike. Nino has had his couple of controversies (remember mostly some with Flueckiger in the past or with Avancini - another one who seems to me as having a douche personality), but I have the feeling he generates respect amongst the generality of his competitors.
Otoh, in the ladies you can sense genuine friendship and support around some of the top girls. In some it seems fake, it's true, but there are a couple of cases where it's seems very genuine.
Great race! I've seen it on replay (try to get used in life after red bull tv). What happened in the end? For a moment I thought it was Eurosport with one of its nonsensical ads missing completely the action....
As Rob kept saying during both races, the coverage was from Swiss TV, so out of Red Bull's control. However, again Rob & Bart were in a studio in Salzburg rather than at the venue......
yep, for that shouting he gave Mathias...Nino was fined by the UCI for inappropriate behaviour at the end of the race.
Indeed! Called him "not normal" (I believe the translation equates roughly to crazy or stupid but could be incorrect), and that he "shot [him] down" (knocked him off his bike).yep, for that shouting he gave Mathias...