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Video: More Red Hook Crit crashes - this time in qualifiers

Fixed gear event not just about the chutes though - we have a Specialized custom kit film too

You may have seen video of the huge crash caused by a stalled motorbike at the Red Hook Crit in Brooklyn, New York City on Saturday evening – and now, more footage has emerged showing that in the qualifiers too, the event lives up to its reputation for riders coming to grief.

> Video: Stalled moto causes massive stack at Red Hook Crit

Now in its ninth edition in New York City – it’s also expanded to Barcelona, London and Milan – the event is confined to fixed-gear bikes, so get a line into a corner wrong, for example, and you don’t have the get-out that a standard road bike’s brakes would give you.

Suffice to say there are bodies everywhere in this bikecam video of Saturday’s qualifiers posted to Instagram by user Biketuhl.

Meanwhile, one of the riders involved in the crash with the motorbike at the start of the final, Manuel Velez, has shared a picture of his frame on Instagram; it’s a write-off.

 

 

And just to show that the Red Hook Crit isn’t just about the crashes, here’s a video from Specialized showing its apparel and technical graphics designer, McKenzie Sampson, coming up with custom designs for a bike, shoes, helmet, and skinsuit used in New York.

Specialized will be doing similar customisations for the other three events in the series this year.

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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tritecommentbot | 8 years ago
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Would your insurance pay out for this event if you have optional sports use included? Have a feeling they'd worm out of it.

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mrchrispy | 8 years ago
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Abosolutly love the guy that shoots in carmera left and face plants.

hope all are okay but these guys are madder that a box of frogs

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