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Video: Mountain Biker Jumps Over Chris Froome In Yellow

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It was almost exactly 10 years ago when Dave Watson surprised tour spectators by launching himself off a road gap over riders in the Tour de France. Less than ideal circumstances and a rough landing led to Dave not quite sticking the landing, but it was forever stamped in mountain biking history as the Tour de France gap jump.

Fast forward to the present, and 10 years later Romain Marandet and the crew from Encho Rage helped Kevin Demolis, Alexis Bosson, Killian Bron, and Emeric Caron celebrate the occasion with another jump over the Tour. This time, right over the yellow jersey, and they stomped the landing.

Check out the making of the jump, after the break!


 

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Bill
Bill
10 years ago

what stage was this and was there anything that showed up on the tv coverage?

matthew
matthew
10 years ago

fake.

Johnveloblake
Johnveloblake
10 years ago

How do you figure its fake? Photo lab under the bridge?

Clump4Life
Clump4Life
10 years ago

This is sadness on every level.

greg
greg
10 years ago

fake? you can see the bike approaching through the trees. the dude on the side of the road with a bandana on his head looks at the bike as it sails across. seems legit to me.

Brattercakes
Brattercakes
10 years ago

Holy crap guys, it happened and it was cool. Move on.

Mud Cycles
10 years ago

It’s cool but the vid was overly longwinded.
didn’t really need 20 different shots of the guy practice jumping 2-3 would be fine thanks.

Samuel J. Greear
10 years ago

We’re applauding these guys? Really? No harm no foul I guess, but had something gone wrong a cyclist or spectator could have been easily killed.

FlyingBear
FlyingBear
10 years ago

I can’t believe they didn’t have a single POV camera on the rider! That would have been even more AWSOMERer.

Gillis
Gillis
10 years ago

That Watson didn’t stick the landing isn’t a major point for me. He put his name on the road and went for it. His jump was bigger and better. This is just a me-too effort.

matt
matt
10 years ago

That by far was the most exciting thing that happened in this years TdF.

Dabe
Dabe
10 years ago

The most exciting thing I’ve seen about Froome’s TDF.

Sabatian
Sabatian
10 years ago

If your a scared ….. Go to church. I’ll go to the road gap. Lol

Seriously guys this is awesome and if you want to whine about any part of it your not a true cyclist. Remember that pulling that first wheelie and skid stopping when you were a kid is what started us all down the cyclist path. Rodie does a wheelie ver the finish its getting rad. So is this, no different.

Topmounter
Topmounter
10 years ago

Someone might have been killed… yeah… LOL… wtf-ever… rock on nanny-staters.

KJR
KJR
10 years ago

Watson’s gap was 100% better. The fact that when he went to scope the landing, and there was a bunch of people and Gendarmes there, meant he hit that blind is so much more bad ass.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1wj0rT7ez1qm34f2o1_500.jpg

satisFACTORYrider
satisFACTORYrider
10 years ago

Coulda been killed? Seriously? We’re gonna need your man card back.

deanopatoni
deanopatoni
10 years ago
dartingd
dartingd
10 years ago

Coulda been killed….Oh you roadies; so considerate…

Ryan
Ryan
10 years ago

Nice tribute. Hell yes.

duder
10 years ago

I’m trying to think about how the roadies can get back with a stunt of their own.

Maybe setup a trainer with a TT bike next to a WC DH course and shoot up some EPO as the riders go by?

Some Guy
Some Guy
10 years ago

Peter Sagan can do that without a bike change.

Pointless
Pointless
10 years ago

How about a scenario where we don’t cut down a tree for a one time stunt.

Some Guy
Some Guy
10 years ago

Peter Sagan could do that without a bike change.

wheelguy
wheelguy
10 years ago

Awesome stunt. I ride road and mountain (XC and some DH) in equal amounts. Stop hating on each other. Anything on two wheels is way cool.

NotAMachinist
NotAMachinist
10 years ago

@duder,

Nah, even better. Ride UP a hill. Downhiller’s. Mind. Blown.

Attention Whore
Attention Whore
10 years ago

The reason why this wasn’t cool is that the rider (tried) to steal Froome’s spotlight.

If this did this without the TDF who’d have cared? Would anyone look on YouTube at someone jumping over a road?

I have much more respect for a guy jumping off a building & filming it…at least its HIS event. This stunt is about as cool as streaking a golf match..

Lame…

Btw, his timing sucked, he was 2 seconds late.

SmooveP
SmooveP
10 years ago

Hmm. I’m thinking that the TdF organizers paid for this stunt in an effort to make road racing interesting.

DB4L
DB4L
10 years ago

@duder: lmao!

Steve M
Steve M
10 years ago

I guess we should be proud that this stunt required cutting down several trees,making some ramps, clearing some landing areas, and generally giving the mountain bike community a black mark for being selfish.

Lame.

Matt
Matt
10 years ago

@Steve: Lighten up Francis.

butch
butch
10 years ago

Stop hating. They are riding bikes, just like the riders in TDF. At the end of the day, how much does this shit matter? You’re all a bunch of pricks. @Samuel Greeur- You should probably stop riding a bike, driving a car, getting out of bed- you could die at any time.

satisFACTORYrider
satisFACTORYrider
10 years ago

@attention whore – you missed the point by about 2 seconds.

Psi Squared
Psi Squared
10 years ago

I’m with Steve M: it was pretty lame to cut down trees and make a trail all for this stunt.

BF
BF
10 years ago

Awesome…..Some real fun in the TDF…LOL

haywood
10 years ago

this was awesome. And some of these negative comments are the reason roadies are oh soooo lame. Waaa! Time to loosen up that spandex, have some fun, turn off the power meter, have a good time.

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