DEMON DESCENDING! 🔥 | The Day Tom Pidcock Shocked The Tour De France! | Eurosport Cycling

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[chris]

It’s poetry in motion watching Tom descend, watched it live and rewatched it over and over again, a true masterclass in bike handling

[mej]

he throws that thing around like a 250cc, 2 stroke, grand prix bike.

[michaelredford]

High speed descending is the pinnacle of excitement in road cycling. The danger, the risk taking, the consequences of if it goes wrong... proper edge of your seat stuff.

Its the only time you see the movements of road bikes imitate racing cars. How they take the lines through the corners and carry the momentum. How they dive to the inside line for hairpins, etc.
It's amazing to watch and is one of the only times when you see the boys vs men analogy in high level tour racing.

[TheNjackets]

One of the most beautiful things you'll ever see in sport! Could watch him decend all day.

[markjoseph]

Experience in Mountain Biking helped him to be more stable on descent ..

[Real]

This man knows how to apex a corner. This is TEXTBOOK maximizing corner exits for maximum speed.

If this man was in an F1 car, I have no doubt he would understand how to maximize the corners.

[grahamhiggins]

Something to be said for this racing ability. As it stands the Tour de France looks like it is a grueling challenge of endurance. Is there an argument that the sport should introduce more skill challenges into the circuits, so a winner must be skilled in movement rather than just slugging it out. The person with the best fitness to weight ratio seems to be the best cyclist on the planet, but what about skills, bike skills, the best rider?

[RG-jasep]

The only thing I can compare this to is the Isle of Man TT.
Amazing skills, nerves and bravery, Tom Pidcock is the REAL DEAL!

[TheLudojay]

When he retires from bicycle racing, he should try motorcycle racing...

[Jko]

Story says Marc Marquez is driving the camera motorcycle

[purenoz]

Ever since this beautiful downhill display, people have thought of Tom P (TP) as a future grand tour winner. There is a significant difference between winning a stage in the very exciting fashion that TP did, and being a GC contender. He was 2'42" slower than the gc group who were being owed to the top by Sepp Kuss and didn't start attacking each other until shortly (2-3 km) before the line. Given how quickly he has been dropped in other races since then, I don't think TP will ever by a top GC rider, you can't be minutes slower on mountain stages with an ok TT and be a top GC rider. He will go on to be like Dan MArtin and others, winning 1-2 road races a year, often high profile. But he is a level below the likes of MVdP, WVA, Tadej, JV etc.

[hooiken]

he should save energy for this
Stage last year...

[danielfisher]

Would leave you skinless if it goes wrong

[도로사이클링]

사이클선수 대부분이 하체는 좋은데 상체는 너무 빈약해 비정상적이야....

[utube]

You can only do this until you crash a few times, then you change your mindset

[tolitsdterrible]

Most pro mountain bikers can do that. Just like Sagan and others.

[gatecrasher]

wonder how long before he tests positive?

[simonrano]

Van Aert 2021 TdF was shocking, Vingegaard 2023 TT stage was shoking. That stage he was given the green light by the peloton, descended like a morron, and beat a couple nobodies and a complete has been.

When you remember in his age bracket there is Evenpoel and Pogacar... This rider is the most arrogant and overhyped the WT.

[govermentsoundsystemrootik]

Anyone who's been riding road bikes for age's can do this easy.., the way some of these comments are it's like it's impossible & how does he get to do this 🧐..., dedication & a trust in your bike handling skills is as easy as pie & chips it's really not that hard but i guess to the beginner /amateur to do this its really hard but not to for the more experienced bike rider...!!