Best Cycling Save Ever

[MrJay7777]

@LesYeuxBleu82 , I've probably logged more miles on a bike than you have in a car smartass.

I've had "pure luck almost bought it at 40 mph moments" just like anyone who has ridden for any amount of time. You obviously have not ridden very much or at all.

If you don't know me personally shut your mouth and grow up.

[roadbikevalour]

@LesYeuxBleu82 A French man hating on armstrong :O Shocking. dude, give it a rest and appreciate what the man did for a great sport

[MrJay7777]

Armstrongs ride thru the field avoiding a crash during a Tour de France stage was more skillful, this was pure luck.

[Wrenchbender412i]

Guy saved his own life. The light poles in Europe are made of concrete.

[26692]

niiiiice

[WeirdHalogeno]

He doesn't mean ridiculous as it was something everybody can do.

He ment "ridiculous" as something absurd, illogical, nearly impossible to be done.

That's one of the best saves I've seen.

I do Road bike for training, cuz my passion is the Mountain Bike. I ones broke the chain uphill, a link failed and made me do a complete flip in the air, landing on my back in front of the bike.

That was a master save, in my August opinion

[fryderykchopin]

Ridiculous save? A human being would have crashed against the pole and died. Contador is God in all senses.

[tcgenbishop]

bet he got religious real quick there for a second

[1xbychoice]

clearly monstrous, epic bike handling

[412dino]

That pole would have ate him for dinner!

[jakeditz50]

you get to a point when youre completely attached to your bike and you feel like its a part of you. i think he was simply acting out of instinct

[oldtwins]

Contador not only has pistons for legs, but also brains in biking handling skills, something one really needs to be a grand tour champion. Lots of riders are fast, but go too slow downhill and end up losing minutes.

[Bhousm76]

wow! SO close to smashing into that pole.

[glozick]

yeah his foot came unclipped

holy shit that would suck..

im going to tighten the tension on my pedals just because of this video..

hahahah

[classic78roz]

his clenbuterol kicked in just in time!!!

[timdevries1]

well that was extremely lucky. SKIIIIIILLLLLSSSS

[siddi54]

his lucky :I

[marlo916]

looks like his headset came loose and his fork and wheel turned left when he was pedaling.

[Deltadawg660]

@marlo916 I think his left foot came unclipped,,, watch in slo mo...

[JesseReith1]

That's why is name's Contador ;-)

[JesseReith1]

@JesseReith1 edit; his name, instead of 'is name'

[makeminea99]

On the other hand if you look at his rear wheel in the slow-mo it appears to leave the ground! And just before it does his entire body seems to be above the stem. He has massively overbalanced to the front and a slight left turn on the bars has turned his bike into a unicycle?

[makeminea99]

Not sure about skillful. This has nothing to do with his feet or cleats IMO. If you look closely his left foot is still in contact with the pedal when the problem begins. To me it looks like he either hits a bump in the road which snatches his front wheel to the left and overbalances his torso as he flexes to the right or he overbalances to the right out of fatigue. Possibly a combination of the two.

[DIMHATZAKIS]

@ profeTa6 ...true !

[976doddy]

clipless pedals one word (Dangerous) Like Lance once said. Use them if you trust, don't cry if they bust...

[weepaddy123]

luck and skill combined ?

[DLYX5]

In the Replay it looks like he make cool drift xD

[Doevs]

Probably would have hit the pole at 50kph if he hadn't saved it...

[eXPerienceyeah]

Seems like the clip on his left shoe came loose from the pedal at the bottom of the revolution. I can't tell if he took his foot out to do the save or if it was his foot coming out unintentionally to cause it. It seems the bike gets shoved to the right as his left foot comes off the pedal, so I think thats why he almost toppled over - powering like hell with his right leg as the left comes loose.

[illestva]

damn, I would of just ate the pavement.

[LeBlanckL]

What caused his bike to go crazy?

[SwedishBeatballs]

@LeBlanckL

There shoes clip into the peddles so they can do a full circle peddle stroke for more efficiency rather than just pushing down with both feet.  In this case one of the cleats popped out of his peddle accidentally.

[bustedbojangles]

@LeBlanckL I would guess an over stressed chain while he was shifting. Pretty similar to what happened with Andy Schleck in the 2010 TdF. Contador new what was up and took advantage of a user error!

[shudahknive]

lol Contador

[Sabretooth335]

One word ... Mental

[Sabretooth335]

One word ... Mental

[oldskoolchevelle]

that pole was coming up real quick

[Skipissatan]

Mere mortals like me would have been head over heels into the tarmac in that situation. Impressive.

[Amalieseneste]

good handling of the bike :)

[velomanmtl]

OMG! His HR must've went up to 3,000 bpm. Close call indeed.

[Sammyfest]

LOL 3,000 bpm LOL

[laurentsKM]

haha you get a huge schock when something like that happens, but then you get adrenalin too, making you stronger agein ;)

[alexis7777]

es el mejor

[DirtWorks2008]

It kind of gives you that sickening feeling...

[elbowturn]

what do you call it when you get that close call numb feeling in your body?

[PilotFirstClass1]

shock then adrenalin

[elbowturn]

@PilotFirstClass1 thanks for the info smart person.

H-town

[SoldierCyfix]

i like these close calls

[cookymonstar]

it actually looks like he was goin down right before, for another reason and came uncliped after he shifted his body weight to recover..amazing

[spongeanator90]

still continued to pedal down hill after, predy impressive

[ProfeTa6]

"Yo, team?" "Yes? Need some water?" "Nah, just bring me some clean underwear please."

[jclaine]

and a new left cleat...

[MustangWW2]

@ProfeTa6 The bad thing is, the shorts he is wearing, would give him a bad rash he if he were to wear underwear

[NobleNihilist]

yaaaa if not the lamp post it was the rock cut.

[forza599]

wow that was fucking impressive, he can win the tour AND perform insane high speed acrobatics.

[cherkeze]

he was very lucky

[vadarfone]

That would have been FUCKING bad.

Lamp post!

[sprintbass]

must have been those crap duraace pedals that were the LANCE pedal i hated those things..and the center plastic ple in the midle of them was ridiculous the new ones are much improved

[sunman79films]

ive actually done that before i was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oo lucky!!!! XD

[downfader2]

"Liberty Seguros' Contador makes the most ridiculous save ever"

Not rediculous at all, truly skillful in my mind.

[kiar12comming]

@downfader2 agree

[TheMushroomsAreHere]

Oh shit!!!!!!!

[michelleyeow]

wow skilled!

[MrSexay]

Great save.

[kdo11]

initially thought it was a pedal issue, but it looks like he hit a bad patch of road and it through him off balance

[Blyseur12]

He was lucky that day XD

[Efepunto]

wow! that was close

[mimmymimmymim]

Skilled master of the wheeled art. That was a crash course to pain.

[thebigfish37]

damn!

[blisscanbebeautiful]

Ohhooow almost a dent in the pole....

Back in the days when he was riding in the beautiful shirt of Liberty Seguros! Niiiice upload!

Always look where you wanna go peepz, never where you don't wanna go! That's the trick...and don't freeze..lol

*Signed: a guy who was in lots and many trouble...*

[iempoor]

sage advice.... agreed upon by another one experienced with ***ahem** troubles... LOL

[blisscanbebeautiful]

Hehehe...thank you, i'm just glad i'm still alive...Take care!

[faceofblunt]

ok i ll tighten my clicks now. but it looks like he got out by turning his foot.

[Grumme3]

Need to tighten up that pedal a bit.

[wtflol02]

lol, it looks funny as, but still good save.

[0marius0]

i love the way he saved it

[GENERAL1002]

EPIC SAVE

WOW

[AmericasArmy96]

lucky man

[Boxa1234]

I bet the bike still weighs more than his body . Skinny fellow.

[FrenchFlair15]

Contador had a crash during a downhill when he was around 19 20 years old and went into coma. I guess he learned his lessons and practised his downhill. He is one of the greatest ever, if he wins the tdf a few times, he will show everyone that he is THE best rider

[Ortrax]

In Paris-Nice Contador showed weakness in one disciplin, downhill.

[FrenchFlair15]

well, he had a bad day, but it's true that downhill is his main weakness, but it's also most climber's weakness.

[Ortrax]

true :)

[FrostbiteSummer]

yeah cause the more you weigh the faster you get downhill and climbers are mostly lightweight. If you are like 150 or less you have to be out of the saddle a lot on downhill.

[waterschooot]

he crashed because he fainted because he had a clot of blood in his fucking brains. it had nothing to do with his downhill skills, fag.

[bustedbojangles]

That would be even more of a shocker if it was on an edge of a mountain.

[p00fcatproductions]

he shuould have ate shit

[SuperShadow]

Holy crap

[uulaitai1]

i was did one time ! like this ..

[alech98]

you sure thats ridiculous??

thats greate skills

[jk6113]

no se ha comido la farola de milagro

[qprsmithy]

Skills!!!

[fyremunky]

THAT WAS NUTS! He was like HALF an inch away!

[krcmechelen]

he almost crashed on that there

[nicoc3r]

dude thats nice. i shit my pants watching him do that

[tigafgraffity]

thats nuno ribeiro from liberty seguros

[tigafgraffity]

my bad!!!!! thats contador i was confused! and i didn't read the *more info section*

[leerroy234]

wouldnve been some crazy footish seein him goin that fast then BAM! out of the camera right into the pole

[Malachi1979]

Wow, that was a sweet save! :)

[sheppezz]

Contador have a nice riding style.

[martelfighter]

oooo mmmmmyyyyy g ooooo ddddddddddd!!!!!!!!!

[pinpinipnip]

thats happened to me. Going along really hard, foot shoots out of pedal, next thing you know your lying on the ground wondering what happened. scary.

[RochesterCycling]

Left foot disengaged from the pedal under force. Body went where it wanted to go when suddenly unrestrained. Strong arms needed to recover. Padded top tube not an option despite wife's insistence.

[sbrtv]

Damn, that is crazy. Can anyone tell what make him slip up in the first place?

[snailmanrox]

his cleat came out of the pedal, it may have been a warn cleat or just so much power

[sunfallen]

Crazy, did he have problem with his pedal clip or what? Lucky he didnt hit that pole, woulda been nasty

[snailmanrox]

he's actually using clipless pedals

[aooooooooooo]

nice i wish i could do that shit