That reflex, braking so quickly for the crash... amazing.

@davidscoosh

4 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t have thought he’d be able to stop in time

@michaelquinlan4817

3 ай бұрын

I think it's just an experience thing. He gets to see it unfold. Two riders almost come together, opens gap and old mate shoots through, then the two that nearly touched actually come together. Nothing in it as what looks like a push is just that guy protecting his front wheel. Alex has processed it and is already on the brakes and just gets around it. There's actually quite a lot of good reactions with a lot of potential victims missing the carnage.

Great to see some decent coverage of the domestic scene with the angle you bring. Exactly the sort of thing it needs. Would be amazing to see more ex pros coming back to help the UK scene. (btw it's 40 to be a vet - well done Chris MaC). Major kudos to Seb for saving this race.

The oncoming cars look terrifying. Glad there wasn't one for the crash. Great video.

I don't know if it was the position of the go-pro but that race looked quite scary at times! Well done for keeping upright!

This is one of my all time favourite videos of yours! Beating Chanel's bike review is a tough act to follow - almost impossible to beat - but your enthusiasm for cycling, support of youngsters, passion - all the good stuff - really came out in this. It was great to see some very, very young men getting awards - well done to all involved, organisers and competitors alike

Love that this race is 90% of my commute to work. Shame about the crash splitting it. Will definitely come and watch it next year.

It's wonderful!!!

Great job on video, and race!

Great vid fella. Do keep it up.

Great Video Alex - hoping for more!

Great video. 👏👏

I'm genuinely impressed

Brilliant ! Keep these coming Alex your old man’s class too

Good result after feeling ill the week before! Nice one!

Great video!

Excellent race footage. Well done Alex, Ed and Dad Dowsett!

Super footage Alex quick reaction and your experience to avoid the crash well done 👍

Great footage.

Thanks for supporting the event, Alex! Amazing to have you down

Great video Alex, so good to see you supporting the UK scene. The power overlay was great to see too💪👍.

Well done Alex. Fantastic insight to riding in a bunch. Brought a lot of memories riding decades ago !! Scarey stuff!

Brave man!

Great video, Alex and loving the up close and personal coverage of the race 🎉 Brilliant to see you supporting the British racing scene; boy does it need it… Long may your involvement continue 💪 🚲

You did well to avoid the crash!! Good reflexes for an old(er) chap. :D

Enjoy watching your videos. This was one of my favourites. I rode down to watch (annual pilgrimage) and cheer on the VC Venta riders past and present and nice to see some feature in the onboard recording.

Massive chapeau for doing this. By just being there you are providing huge support for our sport. Respect!

Yes Alex. That was an amazing vid. Loved seeing Ed Clancy still cutting a rug! Big up Red too! Legend along the South Coast!

Your best video for ages...loved it, makes me wanna race again! Great footage, going to show my partner, she always asks how we ride so close together....think I'll leave the crash out! 😬🤣🤣

I was born in 2007, now a first year junior and I have my first race on Saturday

@uazeyuizadgiezbfhbc

4 ай бұрын

how has it been? :)

@matthewwalls8601

4 ай бұрын

@@uazeyuizadgiezbfhbcSaturday kept trying to get in the break but couldn’t finished 14th in the group with one lad up the road and second race I broke away on my own with 40k to go and 20k to go I was caught by two lads and we road to the finish

@uazeyuizadgiezbfhbc

3 ай бұрын

@@matthewwalls8601 very well job for your first race. if you ever race in belgium lemme know haha. looking forward to it

Great vid and loving the current content, would love to hear some commentary on top of the footage of the race explaining what’s happening within the race and what your thinking at that time

Cameras and editing were great. Reminds me the old days racing as a "master" in the US.

Everything about this race is why I race outdoors on two feet and only indoors on a bike. Racing like that on open roads is… I can’t even choose words that won’t offend

Will be nice to see you do the volunteer episode. Those videos needs to be out there too. It's fantastic fun to be in an event with right amount of responsibility and make it work.

Very local to me and I was out on my mtb and missed it, typical, lol. Great vid

Nice race! In Canada (Ontario) we have the yellow line rule when there are open roads to traffic. If you cross over that center line you are automatically DQ’d. There were a couple of sketchy moments there with oncoming traffic!

@beachmonkey1990

4 ай бұрын

That rule is in the UK, however some people try their luck

That was awesome to watch. HR didn't even flinch during the crash despite being directly behind the carnage, mind you I bet you started braking way before No 10 was at 45º, experience is seeing the risk not reacting to the event. More of this please! Come over to Barcelona later in the year and the hill TT, Tibidabo Hill Climb, would love to see you here.

Keeping cool saved your neck. Excellent vid. Reds bike looks the biz😊

I do enjoy your channel, never more than when your Dad features. You and he clearly have a wonderful, mutually respectful relationship. My own father was a benchmark ‘racing Dad’ (you’ll know what that means!). 35 years since I retired from racing, I attribute everything I ever achieved to my Father’s input; and everything I didn’t achieve was down to him also. #SurroundYourselfWithPositiveEnergy

Good job finding a race these days !

Nice vid..good vibe

Nice work and happy face 😊

Well done Alex your never know how many were chuffed to either beat you or to be close behind you. 😂 Great to know your still enjoying racing.

Great video with nice overlay. Any chance we could get some commentary on what you’re doing in race and why you’re doing it? Am sure you have a wealth of knowledge so would be interesting to hear

Crazy to see the riders on open roads

@PeatCowman

4 ай бұрын

I can't see open road racing lasting too much longer. This sort of racing is bad PR for cycling.

Road racing always scared me. Bmx, Xco, cyclocross are all bike sports I do where I might crash but those crashes don’t involve on coming traffic! It’s just what it is, the onboards look crazy. Nice to see some names on the screen in the peloton

Nice vid

The other day I watched the Redbull Hardline race in Tasmania, this looked more wild and crazy

@simonknowles4267

4 ай бұрын

I was there in Tasmania and it was amazing.

Great video. It does seem scary that we have racing on open roads. The NEG guys do a superb job though.

Was a good race watching from comm2 car! Maybe see you at Thruxton in April?

That looked mint, if a little terrifying 😬

Cannot believe how fast it is! Making turns faster than my top speeds!

God knows how you evaded that crash

@jamesbarlow300

4 ай бұрын

"Saw it coming," I reckon. After that tool went flying through the middle of the bunch.

Impressive bike handling not to get caught in that crash!👍

Some great GoPro footage, reminded me of my RR days.

Nice braking Alex...I nearly had an adrenaline hit.

I will never race again on open roads, it is the same in Denmark where i lived, one race Marshalls didn’t pay attention and a cars crossed the race right in front of us and i hit it at 50kph, luckily no broken bones but seeing a peloton fighting for position with oncoming traffic is crazy to consider safe racing.

Jones meadow bicycles ❤

Alex you are closing in on a Velon Production - superb work. How did Ed managed to match his jacket to his hair? Great support all over the course - so nice to see - Lets go 24

Bunch racing on open roads is mad enough but then riders crossing white line into oncoming traffic!

5:51 Pro Pro Pro pro

My weird brain always understands "For Frodo" at the end of the intro 😂

5:50 this bloody sport I swear... Nice save though

Cross the center line racing here and you get kicked out of the race. Also we race out in the country with little traffic, looks like y'all were racing on a main road and highway!

@dannb0dge

4 ай бұрын

They are quite quiet roads considering the area.

@Richard-me6eq

4 ай бұрын

That was scary to watch🤯😬🙄 some of those cars passing by so close to the riders.😮

terrifying

Great coverage. It could be even better with some commentary, to make it easier to keep track of what's happening. Is Phil Liggett available?! 😁

Great stuff shame about the crash, don't think that was a gap the guy in the red Le Col kit dived into?

That crash was my reminder why I stopped racing.

hope number 91 is ok, looks like he bit the road pretty hard

Dry Robe? Didn’t see the swim leg 😉

How in the name of all that's holy, did you manage to stay up during that crash, literally the only one in that little pocket of riders that didn't go down...

The crash at 05:52 and the close pass at 07:05, I just don't have the nerves for a road race. Thank goodness for ITT races when I can do them.

I'm shocked to see unsecured road race, cars supposed stopping 😢

The rider that went down first in the crash was knocked down by the rider to his right. It looked intentional as the bike on the right angled towards the first rider and as soon as he hit him he straightened out and continued on his way. Was that looked into?

@s3cr3td00rindar00m

4 ай бұрын

Exactly my thoughts!

@brasso9393

4 ай бұрын

The guy on the right clearly nudged him with his elbow causing him to crash

@jamesbarlow300

4 ай бұрын

It was caused by idiot who went flying through Inbetween them all.

Great save with that crash right in front of you. And a reminder that watching a bike race without Phil Liggett or Bobke Roll commenting is like watching grass grow ...

Make a video of your stretching routine (if you have one) position in the thumbnail looks mad

@5:53 number 17 on the neon bike actively pushed the rider so he would crash.

All you guys constantly crossing over the centerline with oncoming traffic...... was intense.

@Gabrielle4870

4 ай бұрын

In races I've done in Australia you'd be DQ'd

@marksmith6007

4 ай бұрын

@@Gabrielle4870 100%. I've been dqd for inadvertently simply TOUCHING the yellow line and there was not even one single car remotely close on coming. This was quite dangerous a few times in this video. I know we can't always have closed roads. But some of this was cringe worthy dangerous

A bit confused…you said you are NOT running a power meter (if I heard correctly), yet power data occurs live. 😮 Good vlog as always!

@the318pop

4 ай бұрын

No, he said he doesn't have a power meter on his tt bike.

@AlexDowsettOfficial

4 ай бұрын

TT bike has no power meter ☺️

@kimwrinkle100

4 ай бұрын

@@AlexDowsettOfficial Thank you for clarifying!

Your Dad 👍😎

What is the base layer and arm warmers?

@AlexDowsettOfficial

4 ай бұрын

Suit - nopinz.com/product/custom-fit-pro-1-road-skinsuit-mens/ Base layer - nopinz.com/product/hypersonic-base-layer/

@icic3155

4 ай бұрын

Same question I wanted to ask!

Are you racing lincoln that would be a brilliant video ?

What about North Road Hardriders, were you not hard enough !!

What did you use to overlay the data?

@PaulTomblin

4 ай бұрын

Looks like Garmin VIRB Edit, but I wouldn’t swear on it.

@willfromfreeport

4 ай бұрын

@@PaulTomblin I could have sworn that doesn't work anymore.

@PaulTomblin

4 ай бұрын

@@willfromfreeport That’s why I wouldn’t swear to it. But I suppose if you have it on an old computer that you never update, it could keep working?

11:45 that's interesting stuff. So to brake super HARD without crashing that's what I need to do ? I think if i'm a ride there is a car doing something and I want to stop I would fully press both brakes, thats a mistake then ? cheers

Was this a rolling road closure, as everyone was constantly crossing the white line? Unless loads were DQ’d

Funny how you’ve got periods on being alone and then in a small pack then alone again then in a pack again. What are you using for your data overlays? It looks like Garmin VIRB Edit but if so I’m amazed it’s still working, Garmin doesn’t even like to admit it ever existed never mind updating it.

Nice hat hair but it’s no Pogi!

5:55 Number 17...tsk tsk tsk.

05:51 Rider in red with yellow cannondale deliberately pushes him over.

Some commentary on what was happening during the race and your thoughts would be nice next time, instead of a music video.

i am a bit unclear about how u stop so quickly. Did u say," heavy on the front brake and lean on back ?" ty

@AlexDowsettOfficial

4 ай бұрын

Yep, 80% pressure on the front brake, throw your weight back and 20% pressure on the rear to avoid it locking up

Women “I met Alex Dowsett’s dad “ Alex’s dad “ Never watched touring car racing did you love” 😂😂😂

The guy with the Factor with the brake levers on the ground. 🤔?

@shaunedwards4362

4 ай бұрын

Red W.

@s3cr3td00rindar00m

4 ай бұрын

Sworks Venge 8:17 :O_

Racing on roads with incoming traffic?!! Wtf

Need to enforce center line rule on an open course. Too easy to go head on with a car...

It would be nice to see the data analysis of the race

@AlexDowsettOfficial

4 ай бұрын

It’s on my strava just here; strava.app.link/Dll9PkaLAHb

@federicomurero

4 ай бұрын

@@AlexDowsettOfficial thanks Alex

How the heck do you find time to train with a toddler? I have a kiddo around the same age as your kiddo and he takes up all my spare time! 😂 Sleep...do I need to sacrifice my sleep? 😢

S-works domination in Europe

first thought came to mind after watching, is everyone riding Specialized or what lol

So even blokes who ride in Quickstep still gotta cop that open road racing 'ey?