Who Is The FASTEST Cyclist? | MTB vs Road vs Track vs BMX

Who would win a bike race between a BMX, MTB, road and track cyclist? Manon headed down to Castle Combe and organised a series of bike races between some of the nation's top cyclists, to see which cycling discipline would come out victorious.

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[gcn]

Which cycling discipline is your favourite?🤔

[awhite]

I thought this was going to be ridiculous concept, but the speed and acceleration of Betsy on that BMX changed my view. Insane cadence and fitness level! The way she was still spinning off the line like crazy on the 1km version too. Full commitment 😮

[billmccaffrey]

Put the BMXer on the road bike and she might smoke them all. Her Cadence was off the charts!

[FS-kyhk]

The BMXer out the gate has incredible speed. Props to the MTBer for just having fun out there.

[richcrompton]

Completely different if they were all on similar bikes. I thought the video was going to be them all having a go at each other’s discipline? Maybe that is a video for the future 😊

[micktheshaggy]

That's incredible how long Betsy was able to sustain the level of her explosive power and high cadence! I bet that if she had gears, she could win on all the distances!

[allthenewz]

That made a lot of sense. The BMX had mad off-the-line speed but was dead on long pulls, The downhill specialist had no downhill to play with, the track cyclist had massive power but only one gear, the roadie had all the power and gears to shift through for the distance. It shows how good road bikes are. Great racing.

[pritamduarah]

Now let's do this again but with all the bikes in off-road

[MrYorrik]

Nice video, highly amusing. Brave effort on the MTB from the always absolutely epic and brilliant Tracy Moseley. Really wondering about Betsy’s max watts per kilo. That must be off the charts. Get them all back again but maybe just all on road bikes for one set of challenges and all on mountain bikes for another set, just to make it simpler.

[reubenbryant]

This is consistent with what I experience with my bikes. Over a short sprint, my BMX is always the quickest to accelerate. It’s fast! But with a 25:9 gear ratio it’s never going to beat my road bike once the distance increases. My road bike takes longer to get up to speed but once it does, my other bikes have no chance. And my hard tail is never the fastest. But it makes up for that with what it offers for off road fun.

[rudolphpyatt]

Fascinating. This simultaneously shows just how much can be done with a single gear and how much difference multiple gears can make.

[bivani]

Kudos to GCN for gathering these amazing athletes for this entertaining race. Well done. I think it is fair to expect the roadbike to win all the races over 1 kms... I liked the BMX rider races, amazing cadence

[Aniqa]

There is a dutch version of MTB vs Track vs BMX featuring Jeffrey Hoogland. The results are different, very interesting to see! Maybe if Rhian (the track cyclist) would have got a bigger chainring she would have won.

[robbchastain]

A salute to Betsy for doing so well on her BMX bike. And I certainly learned first-hand how fast the best of those riders could sprint out of the gate to the first berm, faster than me tho' I tried and always seemed to finish fourth or something and O well, it was fun to compete for a time in '79 and experience it all. And even more fun were the eight years that I was a Schwinn Sting-Ray rider all the time, '67 to '75, back when the Sting-Ray preceded and actually birthed BMX and was the best bike a kid could have for riding fast and doing crazy stuff.

[GeeFunk]

This video just reminded me that in the past five years how I went through a roster of vintage and modern road bikes, hardtail and full-sus mountain bikes and a BMX just to end up with track and urban fixies. It took me a long time to figure out that I value simplicity and reliability. It would be interesting to see other people's journey.

[zakneutron]

Really interesting. Add the variant of some elevation too would be fascinating. Or get them to swop bikes. So many permutations ❤

[amishrider]

That was great Manon.
I'd love to see it again but with each athlete free to choose a different bike each race. All the athletes are amazing and it's their bikes that let them down.

[andrewmcalister]

Well done GCN for assembling such an awesome group of athletes across the disciplines. I'd love see more footage (and even data?) of the BMX - those cadences looked just crazy.

[heathdelzell]

Great video! Let's see a similar race in a velodrome, BMX course, and through the woods to crown the real champion!

[DB-sjkm]

Betsy on that BMX bike is a beast! They all are though, clearly. Really enjoyed that one. Would be fun to have them all ride the same bike or perhaps two bikes and see how they do. Keep this theme going if you can GCN!