Thread 2036202

How is this guy alive? First one or two videos I watched, I thought he was just going for (You)s but they just get worse and worse. The only way this makes sense is if he has terminal cancer and he wants to die riding a bike and not in a hospital bed.

Descending is a skill, it's something you get better at with practice like anything else. Most of Safa's videos aren't that crazy when you look at the speed overlay and realize that he has a better view of the road ahead than the camera does and he's also doing repeat runs to know the route well. I've ridden most of the roads he's filmed in SoCal and while he's pinning the descents he's not doing anything reckless. What's most impressive is how much speed he holds through the flatter sections - dude is aero.

>>2036210
The alta california stuff is tame, but the cdmx stuff gives me the willies

It is the only way to enter Velohalla

>>2036220
Imagine lance Armstrong giving you a pat on the back when you enter the sacred velodrome

>>2036202 (OP)
his descending videos are nothing go watch the no brakes fixie messenger stuff from Mexico if you want to see real danger kek here check this https://youtu.be/p0mE2b5zu48?si=2ZjB0tobfvSS_Yrf

>>2036239
That looks the same except slower

>>2036202 (OP)
He and his crew do take some precautions - they'll scout the route, on narrow roads they'll send a car down the descent ahead of them to clear and radio back if anything is coming up, they'll do the runs in the early mornings or at dusk when the descents are less busy (and also have the best lighting). Plus a bunch of other stuff.

Still dangerous, though. But they're sweet fucking videos and he seems like a really down to Earth guy who just loves riding bikes.

>>2036231
Unlimited espresso at the cycle cafe for the raceists, unlimited IPA at the cycle bar for the unracers. All the road lights are green, there's no cars but there's still a bike lane for the slows. Flats self heal and the chains are permanently lubricated. It's always a tailwind in every direction (or a headwind if you're into that) and it's always downhill (or uphill if you're into bdsm).

>>2036210
>not doing anything reckless.
>almost kills old women on dirt hiking path on his gravel bike for stravacirclejerking
>flies by baby in a stroller at 45mph on a bike path with about 6 inches of clearance

guy is a fucking retard

>>2036633
The vids I’ve seen are cool even if it isn’t the craziest shit he does. What you describe if true is inexcusable and just being a pure dumbass douchebag

>>2036202 (OP)
Have you heard him speak? He's clearly a 90 iq retard and has nothing else to live for

>>2039347
He just sounds like someone who fried his dopamine receptors to me

>>2039347
Go enjoy your life as much as he's enjoying his, genius. Then come back and comment again.

When I'm descending and I'm grabbing the brakes like a pussy I unironically tell myself "don't you want to be like safa" and I let go of the brakes and try to let the yolo wash over me

it's really hard to reconcile the urge to not die with the urge to truly live

>>2036202 (OP)
No idea who that is except the dude looks like Dan Avidan

>>2036231
>>2036564
This is similar to Iron Vallhalla where lifting pros go when they die.

All the weights are perfectly racked.
144,000 hex bars preloaded with 3pl8
No DOMS no tendonitis, no sore backs.
Jack Lalane takes you across the elysian fields
Jesus is NATTY

>>2036231
>velodrome
but surely you mean Major Taylor or Graeme Obree or some other velodromist

>>2036210
>>2040689
im not sure if this is the type of descending you guys talk about but i live on top of a massive hill (pic related, 400 foot drop) and every morning i hit between 30-35 mph coasting down it. its straight and i have the shoulder bike lane to go down, but every now and then i think about how if something failed on the bike going down, or something is in the street that i dont see, or an animal jumps in front of me, im probably dying.

>>2042004
Im descending down steep 400ft ish descents but the roads are windy, narrow, and 0 visibility. (Rural uk) Sometimes barely one lane. ill only send these at night because, ill be able to see headlights coming a lot sooner. I probably go about 35-40 down them in the day (retarded idea) but if i know there’s no traffic or i just kinda wanna die that day i sprint like fuck and hit 60 on the straighter sections, can hold decent speed through the corners it im using the whole road but sticking to one lane really robs speed

this guy is the biggest douchebag in la
his last vid is him literally sucking the wheel of some guy in a podunk MTB race for literally 3 hours then outsprinting him in the end
he'd be 45 min back if it wasnt for the guy guiding him through the course
he always has these bitchy shithead comments about other people in the vids too, like throwing some shade on some dude that is ahead of him just having a good time and not taking this little podunk race 'serious' like him
there was another where he guilt tripped the fuck out of his friend for not pulling on a climb for his gay strava segment even though his friend had covid lol
what a fucking DOUCHE

>>2041937
Most normies cyclists don't know any track riders

>>2046674
t. the guy who got beaten by a roadie in the podunk MTB race

>>2046674
>being this mad about someone racing at a race

>>2036202 (OP)
on a bike your life is forfeit.
>>2042004
suppose we are farely casual, I've a 7 % grade hill among my commute.
along the way are some corners, depending on the bike in use it can get a little hard to corner at around 50 kph ish, (caster and gyroscopics)
mostly what I find is little piles of gravel accumulate on the inside of corners, and random plants fall down from the cutting.
this makes around 2 to 3 foot of the road width unusable, and after a few near misses of storm drains I find it better to take a lane.
sometimes I've had cars reversing out of driveways, but fortunately they paused to look about.
also cars dip below 50 kph on the corners, so its a little too easy to catch up with them.

>something failed on the bike going down
tire puncture, weirdly unremarkable, helps allot that I was on a strait.
shoe lace caught in pedal axle, lol three crank revolutions is how much time one has to notice this, its not killed me yet lol. (get better footwear)
chain drop, this could absolutely obliterate if it manages to jam between the frame and sprocket.
>something is in the street that i dont see, or an animal jumps in front of me, I'm probably dying.
yea, rip. my experience with this is failing to react quickly and smoothly, then losing stability and traction then veering off in a random direction.

>>2047916
chain jammed under the cassette seems less catastrophic than front tire blowout but maybe I'm being too optimistic

>>2041937
Marjorie Taylor Greene?

>>2053533
chain dropping without even jamming anywhere can cause you to fall down if it's while you're pedaling somewhat hard. if there are no obstacles you lose your balance, slalom a little bit, react to the fact you can't rely on the pedals any more, and regain balance.

if there happen to be any obstacles nearby (sidewalk, cycle path bollards, a car) you can hit it and fall down, and maybe die if you're riding in traffic

source: happened to me (didn't die)

>>2055714
Happened to me too, didn’t die but holy shit bent the fuck outa the chain and if it did jam at that speed, im fucked
But yolo im not a pussy

>>2055714
>>2055735
It happened to me too, I was going hard standing on the pedals when my chain dropped, my next pedal stroke had no resistance and the full force of my body was in free fall until my taint caught my fall on the top tube. I death wobbled like crazy and had to choose to crash into traffic to my left or the parked cars on my right. I managed to find a line between the parked cars on my right but hit the curb and went over the bars and ejected myself and flew like 5 feet forward of air time. I got real lucky to walk away from that with only a bruised taint and light road rash but it very well could've been game over just from a chain drop

>>2055779
Definitely the closest i have come to a bad crash. i kept balance and nothing locked up but i was at full sprint down a hill, trying to go past one of those signs that lights up and tells you not to speed, happened a couple times but mostly just starting the sprint or going uphill but fuck that was the highest speed something ever went wrong, just imagine sliding across the road in lycra at 80kmh
Imma die on this bike one day i just know it

>>2036202 (OP)
test

>>2036239
Im not watching commercials

>>2042004
30 mph is 50cc scooter speed, teenagers ride those all the time without a helmet, stop being so overdramatic. Yeah you fall you'll get a nasty rash maybe a sprained ankle, big deal.

>>2056143
You can die just falling over in your clips, it's not common but it can happen

>>2036239

Highly competent rider. Crazy, but competent, talented even.

>>2042004
outside of a peloton or getting hit by a car, there's not much risk of life-threatening injury at those speeds. the only mechanical failure that can kill you on a short, slow descent like that is a chainsuck. keep your drivetrain moderately well adjusted and it's about as likely as getting hit by lightning.