This video is shocking the cycling community right now. Nobody thought this stuff was even possible on a road bike.
Do you remember the first time you saw Danny McAskill ride, when your jaw hit the floor at what was possible on a bicycle? That’s what this video of Martyn Ashton is like — only Ashton is riding trials on the same carbon road bike that Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish used to crush the Tour de France. Yes, trials on a road bike.
Is it a stunt? Of course. Is it radical? And then some. And all you folks who treat your road machines like finicky thoroughbreds? You have just been served.
Adventure Journal – Sick: Radical Trials Riding on a Carbon Road Bike
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