I come from a motorcycle background here and im just amazed. We like nice fat tyres so that we can lean real deep down into corners and take them as fast as possible. You know more rubber, more surface area, more traction. But on the cycling side you guys like them narrow tyres, i get its probably faster and affects the ride in many factors but it just amuses me how you manage to keep that much traction while in a full lean. and wouldn't one tiny stone or hole in the ground = wreck ? Great vid man and ride on. Seems you guys are really pro!
Me to, I ride bicycles only now and although they seem to stick to the tarmac pretty good I felt a lot safer on my R1. Im not totally convinced I had more fun in the corners on motorcycles though, it is addictive.
I really wanted to buy a road bike but i have seen that the speed difference compared with mbt bike I have is so little, so I'll better buy a motorcycle that is almost the same price
i been biking my whole lifetime but my interests got more into uphill / downhill mountains because i love to drive through gravel and dirt and stuff. what really is wicked sick that you go uphill faster than im down. big respect for the average of 150 watts .. that aint bad
Glendora, CA. Road is called Glendora Mountain Road. While you're down here you can climb and descend Mt Baldy Rd. That's a road I can easily hit over 50mph on. I used to bomb down this descent but I'm not much in a hurry anymore with how many time I've gone up and down it.
Cool video, cool descent. Love me some GMR. Friend of mine uses dashware on a lot of his rides and races. He uses just about every visual feature you'd want, including g-force on turns. Search "Descending Stunt" for an example. Oh, and that's me in the front.
i think the closest i have ever seen would be in the peak district but you can go through several different weather climates on the way down, so good old england playing its fun games again..
Awesome road, I wish we had some mountains where I live, but my country (Holland) is almost entirely flat. I only get two bridges when I do my regular 40km ride (about 25 miles). In fact, there is now a group of people planning on building a mountain here, can you believe that? Great gadgets on your bike too, by the way. In the old days (early 80s) we could only guess how fast we were going, imagine that!
These corners look tight if you check out the angle of the bikes I'm guessing the camera is,as most do,flattening out the actual severity of the road. I can go 40+ easily on a nice straight descent as could 99.9% of cyclists but add to this the road surface the corners and missing potholes and this guy was pretty fast in my humble opinion ..so thanks for the great video i really enjoyed it
That invite may not have been for me, but daamn I'd love to come over and try that road. Wish it wasn't on the other side of an ocean. I don't know of any good descents in my area. Only one is straight and pretty short.
It looks like a fun descent, but I was surprised to not see speeds over 40mph on grades from 4-6%. I know there are corners, but it seems like the rider could have opened it up more on the straight sections. I can understand if this was the first time doing the descent, it's always good to coast the first time down an unknown road for safety reasons.
I'd ignore the less positive comments about in being too shallow , slow, straight, etc. It's just good fun! I do like the telemetry in the screen though ..and the music!
What are your impressions of the iBike power meters? I like the appeal of their relatively lower cost compared to most power meters, but I'm not familiar with how well they function next to something expensive like an SRAM Quarq, for example.
@firefern1990 Its the stem/bar mount that came with my Garmin. just used a couple zip ties. Its mounted there because it gets in the way of my iBike Pro.
Cool video! By the way, can you tell me what software you used to get those graphics 'speedometer' on the screen? I really want them to appear on my screen.
I think they work for the average amateur. It is consistent. Is 1 watt exactly 1 watt? I don't think so, but from day to day it'll show you if you're improving. Its also easy to swap among my two bikes.
In fact, when you start getting to speeds that you're talking about, another 100 watts adds you 1 mph. And then the next mph takes 120 watts beyond that. Once you start getting to these speeds, aerodynamics is a far more dominant factor in your speed. A 1 mph difference in the windspeed results in a mile per hour on the bike at these velocities. So, if he went down with a 3 mph headwind, and you went down with a 8 mph tailwind (which isn't that much when you're still), you'd go 11 mph faster.
Hey, I'm Greg. 13 Years old. Man, I love this decent. Did you make it to the top of the ski lifts? Its a moderate climb, but after 30 miles of getting to it with a slight uphill grade, it is completely tiring. Great video.
Lol I know what you mean. I used to be like "wooohooo lets go as fast as possible" on Mt. Lemmon. Now its like "meh, I'll save my back and legs for the ride home."
Thanks for the words.. I'm leaving his post up to show the viewers what kind of idiots exist in the world. Its those guys that make the good people look better.
Hi there, just for curious... why did u use iBike Pro and Garmin Edge 305 together?, u need one of them for something specific?. Great video by the way, like the song ;).
If you looked at his wattage, it didn't seem like he was pedaling all that hard. At -6%, I usually try to hit at least 45-50mph. If I'm going to climb up a road, I'm going to have fun coming down, no soft pedaling!
The ibike doesn't have a timecode to sync with the GoPro video. I need that to sync the data gauges in Dashware. The Garmin does have a timecode and I merged the Ibike and garmin data together
