Did you notice how close the camera came to the motorcycle he passed? They must be a small vehicle to do that, but there’s no leaning or pitching, like you’d expect if the camera was mounted on a bike. I wonder what the chase vehicle is?
Who is this guy and who designed his suit made of wheels?
He has that wheeled board on his back as well…I kept expecting him to flip over onto his back and do a little trick or something. The steepness of that hill is pretty crazy…I also wonder what kinds of speeds he was achieving, seeing as how he kept passing motorbikes!
Damn. I was wondering three things as I watched that: (1) what type of vehicle is following him, (2) does he have a way to brake and (3) how much did he hurt himself in figuring out where to put the wheels and how to control that thing.
A website used by some cyclists, MapMyRide.com, has a copy of this route. There’s a “Show Elevation” tick box on the right. To my eye, it looks like an 8-10% grade down most of that. He has almost no wind resistance, being on the ground like that, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he was going 60 mph (or more) down parts of that hill.
After the edit: I see that Omphaloskeptic put up some speed info before me.
That looks like a lot of fun. As soon as I become an eccentric billionaire (I’m halfway there ) I am going to do that when I feel like dying, because as soon as I get to that first turn I’m going to go straight through that guard rail, I just know it. If there is a better way to go I haven’t seen it.