He did this in 1972, a time when few Americans understood bike racing. Sportscasters focused on the bread and butter of American sports - baseball, football, basketball. I don't remember one mention of Merckx's incredible achievement back then. Sports Illustrated did do a write-up on him in an early 70s issue. But for most Americans, Eddy Merckx was a foreign name in a foreign sport.

when any bike like that was a mtb lol now a day if you ride with that people gonna make fun about you for sure (im not one of them in fact i ride a bike with the same entry level as that) and it actually all you need nothing more (just put some upgrade to it and you ready !)

Una leyenda

This video has been a huge inspiration for me to get back mtb riding, iv watched this vid about 20 times, it takes me back to a time I never got to experience, mtbing in the 90s!!! I think of this vid and you guys when I'm out riding ❤❤❤

C'était le bon vieux temps hein @ahrc83200 🦖

I've watched this video several times because it's one of my favorites when I was a kid, we could only dream of bikes like this, greetings from Hungary

감동입니다

Que se aplica en la nariz antes de partir???

LE PLUS GRANG POUR TOUJOURS !!!

Similar to my old mongoose Iboc Team in grey.

Anyone interested to buy super rare bike model Sbike 829 ?

Show this today *etarded parents

I feel bad looking at them, knowing how much more bike I need to ride the same stuff.. I mean they dont even have disk brakes:] Nothing, they are going down hill naked. Riding my bike is like riding a magic carpet.. I can do anything on it, modern full suspension bikes with modern brakes and 29s will roll over anything.

2024

Full-Suspension? Slack head angle? Dropper post? Man you must've had a weird dream. Now come on, let's get our mountainbikes from the shop and ride them through the city. They've got even fatter tires on now. Almost 2 inches wide, it's crazy.

연기를 넘어서 그냥 그사람인 것 같은 표현력❤ 정말 넘사벽이신거같아요~~

good skill always 👍👍

Ride on brotha

I have 2 of these old school type mtbs lol, and as weird as it sounds I wanna slap a suspension fork on the front of each of them and convent them to disc brakes JUST to see how good it would ride

5:02 kind of a dick move.

What a beautiful time then. Eddy Merckx = "The Cannibal" they give at him this Nickname because Eddy it was the Greatest Winner 🏆 of the History of Cycling, because he takes the one Victory to another (!). In his Great Carrier he has over than 500 Victories Totally (!). Also his son Axel Merckx it was at the podium of Olympic Games in Greece Athens 2004 at the Third place bronze metal (!). Eddy Merckx Always on 🌹🔝🌹 🏆🚴🏆👩‍🚀👍

Genial Juanma 😆😉✌️un saludo desde Tibi 🤙

주기적으로 들으러 옵니다♡

진짜 이엠케 키운게 차제나 쏘크리인데 이렇게 버려진거보면 진짜 너무 열받고 속상하다

Que bueno que sobrevivieron para compartir el vídeo 😮

And it’s been 30 years and my gravel bike looks just like that with drop bars. Hmm

This is me every day going to school work pretty much anything

Nádhera👌🚵👍👍👍👍👍👍

This Is IT!

Hoy en la actualidad2023 manejo una schwinn conmemorativa del año 1991 esta como nueva sin suspension sin frenos modernos, me sorprende lo rapida y fuerte que es, ya que la uso duro y en partes largas en la sierra de nayarit, me apaciona la bici pero no he querido comprar una moderna porque la mia muchas veces a aguantado mas que las modernas ya que en las rutas nunca me falla..y or doy duro en decensos..

This is rad such a blast to the past

and on that day Steeze was invented

Best Pat Benetar video ever.... How is she not in the Rock hall of fame?

mint

i love the expressions on all the rando's faces when the camera cuts to a bystander. SHOCK AND AWE BABYYY

These guys are to cool for me man ..

🧑‍🎤 awesome 😎

So cool❤

Them Mormons can really ride!!!

Omg the year when biking went backwards. Thin handlebars and Saturday surfers need apply. Jesus the horror and lack of culture 😢. Go on report me and make it truth.

Omg the year when biking went backwards. Thin handlebars and Saturday surfers need apply. Jesus the horror and lack of culture 😢 .

The riding is just off the wall, but on par with the riding is the editing and early early videography. We did not have good technology during these years!

This video fucks

bicibandido es su e poca dorada

Wow…❤

In that fanny pack is a Belgian beer, some dried fruit, roasted nuts, a piece of dark chocolate, and a pipeful of tobacco, all of which he'll enjoy mid-ride.

Us 70s/80s kids who lived on our BMX bikes became the totally rad (lol) mountain bikers of the 90s. Great times.

LOVE the sound track!!!!!!!!

OMG...this is incredible.

Yeah that looks right