Mark Cavendish Sprint - Tour de France Final Stage 2009

[rowerburke]

the music ruined a great moment

[marsco23]

Light up the afterburners and go...........

[pacifigue]

что за музыка?

[Testedecazzo]

6 people can't ride a bike

[nestor6139]

Mark Cavendish can't ride hills or helps his team mates and of course he cannot win a race by himself therefore Peter Sagan it is sooo much more of a rider that Cavendish. Peter can climb and sprint.

[DestroyTheseWalls]

Imagine crashing in full sprint agghhhhh

[saccmetal]

ee

[25jonathan]

damn i wish i could sprint that fast. it must feel insane!

[TheMrBnB]

my top speed is 50 mph on a normal bike!

[TheEThanPRime]

Amazing

[321Showdown]

cavendish never saw the back of other sprinters ;)

[PabloakaChuck360]

WOOO i will be able to see his arrival this Tour de France! sunday that is!!!

[srtboy123]

That was fucking awesome!!!

[2001bekkers]

now cavendish is not anymore the "best"

[N1ck341]

Dam Mark Renshaw is a beast, Cavendish is victorious on the shoulders of giants.

[MSPAKINAM]

cool!!!!!!!!!

[wintersjary12]

the song goes good on the video

THAT MAN NEEDS A SPEEDKILLA!!!!!!!!!!!!!



[LilyWhiteRiot]

Awful music, but great video nonetheless

[Nicool333]

This guy trains as a sprinter, comes from a track background, and was officially clocked at 78kph. Anyone who races road bikes will admit that this number makes him a freak of nature.

[mouchie]

Motorized doping!

[JesseReith1]

Hey, does somebody has pictures of him sprinting when you see him from the side? thnks, Cav. is great!

[chrisbear08]

@mikroos But whats 40km/h for 20km good for? You'll tire yourself out. And you said you where "semi-pro", if there is such a thing, so aren't most of your races 40-60km long? And FYI 62km/h isn't that hard, even for an independant.

[MrLance1337]

@chrisbear08 I'm 15, and I can push 45MPH on the flats. That's around 72km/h.

[chrisbear08]

@MrLance1337 Thats great, bet your shit at climbing...

[MrLance1337]

@chrisbear08 Haha. Actually I'm not THAT bad. I haven't tried very many though...

[chrisbear08]

@MrLance1337 Lol. You'll do fine out there :D, make sure you work on endurance though!

[MrLance1337]

@chrisbear08 That's what I'm going to start working on today. Just so much traffic where I am, makes it hard to keep moving.

[chrisbear08]

@MrLance1337 Yeah I fell for ya, I live in Canada and it the winter so I have to use my trainer in my basement. Maybe you should invest in one?

[MrLance1337]

@chrisbear08 Im might have to, yeah....

[BugsBeni]

that's amazing! clenbuterol power!!!

[Stoutephilip]

What i beast of a man hey!

! !

[tsauq85]

He said 78 kph in the latest interview for the Dutch television

[MrTakemeawaynow]

whats the name of song?

[DontTouchTheWatch]

why does he keep looking down?

[Joyshillaker]

@DontTouchTheWatch I think he's keeping check on the other riders.

[erik9920]

@DontTouchTheWatch In order to decrease the ammount of wind resistance

[17825837810]

@erik9920 wrong, in one of the other videos on Mark, he says that he had been working really hard on keeping his head up, to increase aerodynamics... my guess is that it's just from tiredness maybe... or like the guy before you says, to check on other riders.

[BJrockk]

"Cavendish is an enigma. People can not understand why he goes so fast!" that's the translation of the Romanian commentary after this win.

[jareddavies100]

That man is mentally quick...

[mickyp1960]

The cycling is brilliant ,music is for musical retards

[wikichris]

Amazing rider. There's a new breed of cycling fans that are driving me up the wall though. They recognise the pinnacle of cycling is the GC of the tour but think they are being clever by dismissing people like Cav because he doesn't compete in the GC! The guy's already a legend for winning these races/stages.

[special8edition]

foolish guy xD

[saucy05]

Orgasmic. 

[karldiesen]

His top speed at the end of a race is around 76km/h, but then he is usually quite tired. His top speed in a totally rested state is probably above 80kmh, maybe even 90.

[Beevee64]

Proud to be Manx

[tezone1]

I would love to see Cav vs. Greipel. But Cav vs. Thor is exciting for now.

[Menowinfan1000]

great!!!

[CanadianBoy93]

what is the song in this video

[cyclesearch]

@CanadianBoy93

Painkiller (Noisia Remix)

[sebastiansap2003]

@cyclesearch What's this musically retarted shite called? Let me guess PAINKILLER. This musical composition is fucking amazing. Muah! ha! ha!.

[sebastiansap2003]

@CanadianBoy93 I need a painkiller after listen to the fucking shite. Nursery rhymes are more musically advanced. It's torture to a musicians ears.

[JesseReith1]

awesome!

[prefertoxic]

what's this song? I know the original version is Freestylers - Painkiller, but I'd like to know this version.

[prefertoxic]

@prefertoxic ok i found, it's Noisia remix

[cyclesearch]

Yeah, mikroos below in the comments wasn't far off. I read a UK bike mag last month an interview with Mark and he said his peak speed was 75kph

[MacTobey]

@cyclesearch

that was in cyclesport magazin right?! they listed the best sprinters top speed. amazingly the italian cicchi was the second fastest behind cav!

i´d like to know greipel´s top speed!

[cyclesearch]

@MacTobey

lol, had to look through my pile of cycling mags to check that one :p it was health and fitness for cyclists (one of the cycling weekly quarterly mags), had all about his sprint tips. Yeah, it'd be interesting to see Cav and Greipel have a crack at each other in a sprint but I don't think they've been in the same races this year.

[MacTobey]

@cyclesearch

today i read in a german newspaper that greipel announced his depart from team htc columbia if they dont let him ride the tour de france this year.

so maybe next year we´ll see cav vs. greipel!!!

[AaronTheWebMonkey]

@MacTobey

that'll make things interesting, we could do with seeing the good old battles again like the days of Cippo and Abdujaparov.

[ServusAlexandriMagni]

@cyclesearch i think ur happy now? :D with greipel beating cav in i believe the third stage of this years tour de france :D

[koko56]

@cyclesearch wanted to find that out for a while! Woop!

[pdp110]

Very nice sprint by team columbia. Does anyone know the max speed of Cavendish's final sprint there??

[paco18pd]

Woooooow!!! the camera is awesome!!

[fazzo39]

mark cavendish isn't petacchi!

[bigphatkdawg]

@fazzo39 he's better than petacchi

[nonfictionone]

final stage tour de france. Only one rider in the picture. That particular win did not get enough kudos. There were no competitors. He won a 'SPRINT' by a country mile. Incredible team, incredible sprinter.

[saucy05]

The perspective of the camera really captures the speed they are going. The sound track wasn't shabby either.

[harry93700]

Monster!!!

[djBigHeadBassground]

..'I need another pain killer...' where's the footage of George with his broken bones pulling the High Road train right through Garmin to set up Cav for his most beautiful finish ever.

[5Willoughby]

ha ha ha I p!ss myself every time I watch this, he is the tits, no doubt, worlds fastest.

Love ittttttttttttttttttttttttttttt­t.

[EASYTIGER10]

Astonishing

[slavicman09]

wow mark cavendish

[martiner]

I can't believe that he is as old as I am. He is a great sprinter!

[spartan1o5]

so sexy!!

[thebreastfed]

Who videotaped me?

[25jonathan]

that sprint is extreme!

[cyclesearch]

probably won't be far wrong if you say 40-45mph

[mikroos]

I'm afraid you're wrong, mate. I'm an amateur and I do 55 kph in a flat-out sprint. I think therefore that Cav's speed would rather be closer to 70-75 kph in the end. I don't believe in 90 kph though as even the guys on the track can't achieve this kind of speeds (AFAIK at least).

[cyclesearch]

Looks like we're both in agreement then, think you missed the mph off the end of my comment, which would put the speed I quoted in the same kph range as your comment at about 70-75. When our local GB rider Jamie Staff makes another appearance on one of our club runs I'll see if he can shed any light on the subject. I've managed 64kph in a sprint, but that was with a massive tailwind so I'd put that under exceptional circumstances.

[mikroos]

Sorry for my mistake then, cheers!

[cyclesearch]

no problems :) think I shouldn't have used such an old style measurement system like mph to get a point across, us brits are probably the only ones who still use it lol.

[mikroos]

At least you're aware of it ;P That's a good sign lol

[mikroos]

@cyclesearch

Coming back to our talk... I saw an interview today with guys who took part in Cancer Council race (warm-up before Tour Down Under). One of the guys interviewed was Chris Sutton and some guy from Team Saxo Bank and they said their speed in the end was 72 and 74 kph. I believe therefore that Cav could hit maybe something like 78 kph, but not more IMO. Cheers!

[cyclesearch]

@mikroos

Think you'd be pretty much on the money there, still bloody fast though.

[ScreamForWouter]

@mikroos yea i think ur right, im a semi-pro 15 y/o kid and with proper warm up i can reach around 62km/pu. but im a sprinter anyway, i normally do rounds 10-20km with an average of 40km/pu on my own. not to brag, but i reckon your statement.

[adaml140]

@mikroos I sprint around 40mph, and i suck. Cav is a boss, 90 kph, or 55 mph is doable i bet.

[SamuraiRF]

@adaml140

Sure you do.

[adaml140]

@SamuraiRF lol 40 mph, on a flat sprint? not that unbelievable.

[lukey120292]

@adaml140 oh yeah? well it must be, because he's leaving every other sprinter in the tour de france in the dirt

[fredrikjonas]

@adaml140 I believe you it's not that hard with a race bike if you are good. 

[fredrikjonas]

@mikroos I have seen the speedometer. Its often 70kph the last 5 km and top speed 90 kph on MARK Cavendish

[321Showdown]

@fredrikjonas

...amazing :OO

[TotliTotli]

How fast do you think he's going here?

[Jordan8789]

I'd say a lot faster he's launched (starts his sprint) at 200-250m and I counted 9 seconds until the finish line so 9 seconds for 225m is 90km/h or 56.25mph.

[pittsn]

Thats what i would have guessed, the officials commented that the peleton was going 80k into that final stretch.

[roadwarrior1981]

His leadout man was doing 40 something, Cavendish pulled away from him like he was in a car.