MEGAVALANCHE 2021 a LOT of overtaking to a top 10 finish after Glacier carnage + Mechanical qualms.

A lot of my frustration/swearing in this run came from the fact that my chain fell off a few more times (chain guide was a little damaged) I managed to pedal it and crunch it back on those times luckily. I'm not frustrated by the other riders more so the predicament!
2021 Megavalanche final run.
Was so keen for this race and learned some things to apply next year!
Got away without any actual crashing on the glacier but got a bit tangled in other peoples crashes which resulted in my chain coming off fully at the front and wedging at the back between cassette and frame and in the derailleur! Luckily it was fixable. Started again in 57th place and worked forward to a top 10 finish..
If you want to see eventual winner Stefan Peter's race it can be found here - • Megavalanche 2021 / wi...

[@cheskybaba4864]

Impressive run. Best races are those fought for.

[@LiamMoynihan]

100%. A good result is nice but pushing on and working hard for it is too!

[@LiamMoynihan]

@CJMCheesePlanet just get an entry on megavalanche UCC website then travel to Alpe d'huez, France for the dates of the race with your bike and you'll be in business

[@LiamMoynihan]

@CJMCheesePlanet I'm from Scotland!

[@SonnyDarvishzadeh]

At this point, I watched like over 20 Mega and Maxi races, but this video is one of the most exciting ones! Congrats! That's a proud 9th 👏

[@TwoWheeledStories]

What I really liked about this is in search for the slop and other 'edits' everyones super chill and laid back but then it comes to racing and we see the raw emotion. I think a lot of riders are a bit shy to show that on their social media when really if you're a racer and someone takes you out or your bike lets you down, it bloody sucks and its okay to say effin hell! Great ride dude

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thanks! Haha yeh the laidback spirits definitely go out the window when competition is involved., particularly this one with how stressful/intense the time is leading up to the start and then the first section too! Hopefully this year I'll be smooth and swear free haha!

[@TwoWheeledStories]

@@LiamMoynihan Haha yeah I bet! Any race can be stressful at the start but Mega looks like a different kettle of fish! Good luck with it this year man!

[@Rikitikisiki]

So impressive despite all the problems. Highly entertaining! Good luck on your next race, whenever that may be.

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thank you!!

[@Fyttikatta]

Wow! Impressive display of skill and endurance! One could wonder what the time would be if your bike had escaped unharmed from the glacier carnage. Really enjoyed the countdowns and comments as well! You got a new well earned sub!

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thanks! Hopefully next year can get a smooth run down and see where that puts me!

[@carty43]

GREAT job with the captions. Really helped the drama as you were living it. I especially was interested to see your aside about the "French" course. It seems every top rider has at least one of those up his sleeve. BTW, great run!

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thanks! Yeh there always seems to be a few of those pop up, i never used to look for them but have become wise to it finally haha!

[@HaveCheetahWillView]

what a fantastic race!!! Hats off for not quitting after that crash and mechical breakdown.

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thanks! Yeh it's such a cool race, I'll be back next year to give it my best again!

[@Ismael-cq9ye]

Nice race man!!!. Never give up until the last time!!!. Greetings from Argentina!!

[@bretttippie]

Wicked watch! Some savage pedalling and brilliant passes! Gutted to see your chain get wedged in…next year man!!

[@bazbroon]

You rode that top half ragging eh 🤬 Amazing recovery ride, well done 👏 👏

[@Mortizul]

Really good effort. Looking forward to seeing what you can do next year. Overtake counter was a nice touch, thanks!

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thanks! Yeh I'm looking forward to next year's already!!!

[@samuelaguiar7634]

Fantastic!! You were the virtual champion of 2021, considering your performance and fitness.

[@LiamMoynihan]

Ahh thanks! Very nice words. I'll give it a good go again next year and hopefully have a nice smooth one haha

[@dikekamundu]

Absolutely brilliant!

[@DougieL]

Wow, your'e a shoe in for the win next year!!! Massive congrats on the run up the leaderboard, considering the crash and mechanical issues. Great effort!!

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thanks for the nice words! Yeh i'll give it my best effort next year and see where that puts me!

[@patrickmchatton7958]

Wow you really poured it on there. You had your eyes on the prize the entire race - well run indeed.

[@fuzzfadel6141]

That was awesome!!! Just brilliant!!! Cheers from Singapore!!!!

[@LiamMoynihan]

Ah thank you!!!

[@michelgouzy7894]

Bravo pour ta remontada époustouflante et merci pour ta vidéo ;-)

[@mikekelsey6777]

After you getting your chain back in place, I counted you passing 52 other riders. Impressive ride.

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thanks! Yeh had to work for it. Hoping for a nice clean run next year and see where that puts me!

[@brucemacdonald5532]

Brutal seeing everyone slam into you right at the start! Some effort to claw it back to 10th after having to stop and get the chain back on!

[@Capicua718]

I was searching for your run since i watched you passed the 10th 33rd and 44th place racers in their videos. In their videos show how you got in the first jam in the other shows you fixing the chain and the last video, flying by the 10th place. You are a great rider. Good luck next year

[@LiamMoynihan]

Ahh haha that's funny I was popping up in the other ones! Thanks for the nice comments. Hopefully next year will have a nice podium run video instead haha!

[@TheRealFeechLaManna]

Highly entertaining video. Great effort!

[@stoviber691]

Best footage I've seen since "the Mexican" and Baby Jesus graced our screen

[@LiamMoynihan]

Haha The Mexican was a definitely work of Beauty to be fair! Will have another Search for the slop series later this year which will hopefully incorporate some comical themes.... and the Mexican!

[@mauricioluisvega8342]

Damn chain guard that didn't do its job! Excelent Race! Take Care.

[@michaeltopping8893]

What a come back! Cracking ride ya boya!

[@LiamMoynihan]

Ahhh cheeeeeeers!!

[@miracleshappen4483]

You were literally flying! 💖🤗😁

[@Cous1nJack]

Truth is, if he’d made the most of the front row start he could have avoided the mess at the top and sailed down no swearing, chain on etc

[@Bally46]

Yeah definitely 'you make your own luck' here. Then moans that slower riders are in the way

[@LiamMoynihan]

@@Bally46 Never once moaned that they were 'in the way' Also never mentioned anything to do with luck. Fact is i set up for the first corner to actually get round it and was in the top ten getting there, some years the first few go in too fast and crash on the ice. This year it was people behind me who went too fast and crashed into me, it's all part of the race and funnily enough I understand that it's very difficult to get a clean run. At the end of the day though there is an element of running the gauntlet or luck or whatever you want to call it with 400 odd folk on the start line of a steep ski piste into tight first corner.

[@givemeakidney]

Beast mode will and truly engaged. 💪🙌

[@LiamMoynihan]

Ahhh cheeeeeeers!

[@laurynasjagelo5075]

Great run Mr. Liam. Full throttle start to finish :)

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thank youuuuu! It's always a good time!

[@BdrumMerX14]

amazing run, super entertaining

[@LiamMoynihan]

Cheeeers!!

[@SNH48HongKong]

SO COOL

[@rubenvor]

The overtake on 20!!! Amazing! If it wouldn't be for that crash you may have won the race.

[@tim2013]

Absolutely no doubt. The guys who finished in the top four all managed to avoid the crash. If he'd missed the crash this guy clearly would have been top three or four.

[@leegarrett3600]

Amazing, such determination. Tightest possible inside line at the first corner is what I would aim for.

[@LiamMoynihan]

Yeh I think that could be the move! Issue is its really off camber super inside and the snow is a bit different every year/ sometimes icy and unpredicatble. Turned out it was decent this year so could corner on the off camber. My plan was to get turned and across but by then was carnage. Just need to make a massive effort to be first at the first turn in future haha!

[@XX1SICKNTWISTED1XX]

Wow! That's a crazy race man. Nice job and loved the video work, looked like I was right along with you but didn't have to kill myself. Lol!

[@alttabby3633]

Nice comeback mate!

[@LiamMoynihan]

Cheers!

[@Ellensai]

What a journey!

[@mrsleep0000]

Man, that was painful watching all those people pass by while he fiddled with the chain. Props to Papa Moyn though, that course is crazy and at points the penalty for failure would be a trip to the hospital... if you're lucky.

[@davidhopley9361]

Great ride and comeback. The best Megavalanche video I’ve seen to date!

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thank you!! Hopefully this year's one will be a bit more at the front throughout haha!

[@craigsteele8178]

Awesome riding brotha! If only you didn’t have a chain malfunction who knows where you would of placed? Stella run man your a warrior!

[@LiamMoynihan]

Cheeeers! I'll be back at it again next year so hopefully get a nice neat one and find out!

[@craigsteele8178]

@@LiamMoynihan Hopefully I’ll see you their at the 2022 race. Good luck brotha!

[@LiamMoynihan]

@@craigsteele8178 Ahh nice! See you there. It's a good time!

[@azotoss]

Bro that was epic

[@LiamMoynihan]

Cheeeeeeeers!

[@besttrails]

Wow, nice man, good job, see you in Valais

[@denisomahoney5464]

Nice one bruv great race ....

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thank you!!

[@luisenriquemolanoalba8234]

Impresionante es alucinante

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thank you!

[@Mcdiddy-ns8rw]

Savage peddling 👊👌

[@gilbertocardoso5897]

GREAT RUN

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thanks!

[@Riker-ER]

Without the issues, you will make top 3 next time 👍

[@LiamMoynihan]

Haha you are right! I finished 2nd this year. The 2022 race happened two weeks ago. Haha!

[@Riker-ER]

@@LiamMoynihan Congratulations, I’ll go back and watch it. I wish the riders with the GoPro would say who The top 5 are at the end of the race. I don’t know enough to determine that by what they’re wearing, being a new fan.😊

[@tim2013]

12:48 "If nothing else, the overtaking should be entertaining." That's a fact!

[@luchousevideo]

Good breathing, and well done bro

[@timmichael739]

This is what the Elite look like

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thanks!!

[@be-hugues3045]

Canon, belle agressivité. Le ranking in live est une bonne idée.

[@jasoncarter4343]

It seems half the battle is avoiding the initial pile up. You could have had a top 5 finish. Coming back from 57th was more impressive. I enjoyed watching you take creative lines to pass, much like Kilian. One request: Could you please angle your camera about 15 degrees upward? I'd love to see the horizon and scenery as you fly.

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thanks Jason! Yeh I've studied the different options for the snow to avoid the initial carnage, I ran out super wide on the left in the hopes of then crossing back under but maybe full inside is the job... The camera was mounted onto my visor which was partly broken in the snow crash and ruined the angle too sadly! Hopefully this years will be smooth sailing haha

[@chrisburke9721]

Amazing skill that would’ve podiumed you at least and also smart pacing on the key climbs. I cringed so many times for many passes. Staying calm and positive is so hard full of intense adrenaline when things go sideways!

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thanks! Yeh keeping calm when the adrenaline is going can be tricky. But always need to press on til the end!

[@midlifemtbr6247]

Wow he got checked into that first turn wall like a professional hockey player!!

[@LiamMoynihan]

haha If only I had taken it more like a professional hockey player!

[@wildcolonialboyakawild7465]

Appreciation for the intensity.

[@porkorosso7885]

Well done buddy,!

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thank you! Will be back for another crack this year haha

[@porkorosso7885]

@@LiamMoynihan BTW this video is so inspirational to me as I do my Treadmill workouts. I wish I was 40 years younger. Good luck for 2022. 🤟🏼

[@danielbeauregard6716]

bravo

[@st3ppenwolf]

impressive man.. that was faster than the winners

[@xnirvanaXnevermindx]

insinuating that the 8 riders ahead didn't have mechanicals, crashes or what have you. he wasn't faster

[@st3ppenwolf]

@@xnirvanaXnevermindx they didn't

[@xnirvanaXnevermindx]

Source?

[@st3ppenwolf]

@@xnirvanaXnevermindx Look it up, have no time

[@maxsold3533]

Монстр 👍

[@welshgravityenduroseries2208]

Ahaha! brilliant dude, 17m classic line :)

[@LiamMoynihan]

Hahaha a good one!!

[@jerrycatania7159]

Incredible effort! How many feet of descending is this course?

[@LiamMoynihan]

Cheers! It's 2600m / 8500 feet difference in height between top and bottom, plus a few climbs on track too so I guess total descending close to 9000 feet. Nice big one!

[@davie2675]

top 10 after that first 5 minutes! thats some going

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thanks! I was half expecting to be race done when I stopped at bottom of snow so any result was a big bonus from then on haha!

[@ronprins1225]

Great ride and nice vid, but try to complain a bit less about the slower riders in front of you. It will make your vid even better. (In my opinion)

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thanks! Yeh I know what you mean, my muttering and frustration is really directed at myself for not getting inside on the first snow turn! Power of hindsight haha! Cheers

[@leegarrett3600]

Given the circumstances I think he was polite and restrained.

[@Aljonone1]

@@LiamMoynihan Chain guides should be for keeping chain on, not make it more difficult to get back on?

[@rarelycomments]

I quite enjoyed the commentary

[@mrsleep0000]

17:01 That was a brilliant move and gave you the beans to get to 18th, nice.

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thanks! I'd spotted that line in practise and hoped I wouldn't be behind anyone to have to use it but worked out well in the end.

[@andrewcarranza1562]

nice race man. i noticed at 34:21 you passed that damien desbrosses guy.

[@benikuqi]

Hell yeah, Wild run 🔥 what do you eat bro haha 🤘

[@LiamMoynihan]

Haha thanks! Everything! Hahaha

[@sH-no7pn]

Crazy stuff Try out some xco-races, crazy how fast you are going in the uphill-sections as Well😂

[@LiamMoynihan]

Yeh I need to race some more xc! Maybe some Europe based ones for good tracks though as UK ones are normally on flat boring courses haha! Definitely something I want to do more of!

[@user-bb1lj3ib9q]

If there would be no crash and open chain, u could win this megavalanche. Although u dominated.

[@LiamMoynihan]

Thanks, it's a hard one to get a clean race at. Will be back to give it my best in 2022!

[@lagging_indicators]

Very impressive. How were you viewed by competitors 2021 before this race? Did they consider you one of the favourites?

[@LiamMoynihan]

I've won my qualifying heat a good number of times and had been top 10 overall several times before. So maybe not a favourite to win but definitely for top 5/10. Hopefully after 2nd place this year I can get to a win in future!

[@lagging_indicators]

@@LiamMoynihan Big congrats on the 2nd place this year. I’ve seen that takeover at the end from everyone’s POV including yours. Legendary! 🙌

[@S0ulinth3machin3]

yelling at others to go faster is a waste of your own energy. Everyone's going as fast as they are able. Once you got some open trail, you were definitely moving. Follow Killian Bron through the first turn, he seems to have the tactics sorted. You get through that you may win this thing. Some of your speed here is the fastest I've seen.

[@TheJuniorFarmer724]

What bike did u ride

[@LiamMoynihan]

A Scott Ransom!

[@EmandSz]

Yeah boy! ;)

[@LiamMoynihan]

Cheeeers!

[@EmandSz]

Can see that the amount of work involved in moving forward was considerable. Regards and all the best!

[@mebenzedaesaf]

Great. He should be in the top three if it weren't for the bike problems.

[@albertofernandez5202]

Sin miedo 😂al exito valórate tú vida estático es tu cleta ella te ayuda y la cuidas si y higual te sacas la chucha merchandising

[@LiamMoynihan]

Ahhh Gracias!!

[@motocandoavida4404]

Você foi brilhante.. se não tivesse tido problemas com a corrente Você estaria entre os 3 primeiros.

[@scottgoodski]

Brilliant, so tense to watch. Next time go with a bar mounted rocket launcher 😂

[@LiamMoynihan]

Haha or maybe a rocket booster pack to get round the first corner Infront of everyone else and away from carnage ha!!

[@jeremiahjohnson9908]

Buy Charlie a pint...good man.

[@LiamMoynihan]

Aye Charlie is the man! Need to try and do some more riding with him next summer!!

[@AhmedAliRazzaq-xq4hj]

I think you have also power on all climbs .

[@justinsparrey177]

Mate... You'd have PISSED that if yer bleedin chain hadn't have come off! Result though eh? 🤙🤙🤙

[@LiamMoynihan]

Haha thanks! Looking forward to getting back and at it again next year already! Definitely a good race for me!

[@GaryInSoCal]

Camera angle was too low... too much front wheel vision and enough view in front and ahead.

[@LiamMoynihan]

Aye the helmet peak(visor) got partly detached in the first turn mess. As the rules are that camera must be mounted on peak it meant the camera was pointing lower than it should

[@Hazzard0]

Great run, very annoying camera angle :-(

[@LiamMoynihan]

Yeh the camera angle was slightly unfortunate. It was mounted to the peak/visor (because it has to be there for uci races) and one of the peak attachments got knocked out in the first turn pile up so the whole peak was sagging a bit lower meaning camera was a bit low too (also explains the squeeky noise as the peak waggles about)

[@HarborEdwin]

0:48 - Bet you won't do that again! ; >

[@463Richard]

Angry Jock wants the mountain to himself.....

[@LiamMoynihan]

Frustrated jock is annoyed that he had a chain issue in a race that only comes around once a year.

[@dirttdude]

IDK, buddy.... your chain fell off.

[@terrylalley]

bad temper and bad camera angle, but i watched it all the way through and well done!

[@davehorn2019]

ummm?

[@Co-km6cl]

Must suck to start that far on the left

[@LiamMoynihan]

I started pretty much right in the middle. I had 4th starting pick from seeding races. First pick started immediately to my right and 2nd and 3rd both to my left. Eventual winner also started left of me. On the right the start is flat for a bit before going down so is slower to get going and the first corner is off camber on right. Just happened that everyone from the right smashed into everyone on left haha! What really sucks is starting on the further back rows, guaranteed carange then!

[@rakyantube-tube1335]

Gua bodo amat balmon skarang lagi meta. Sebagai user yang jarang ngkill masih gak bisa manfaatin pasif nya do'i

[@TheRogbar]

'Whinging pom'

[@LiamMoynihan]

Hahaha I'm not even a pom

[@TheRogbar]

@@LiamMoynihan Cheers Papa, I TU your vid for being able to laugh at silly criticism

[@Exorcistf1]

как же у него горит

[@taxamata]

Great. the author rushed "for all the money"

[@LiamMoynihan]

Haha, where is "all the money" I'm rushing for? Would love to find some of it haha

[@taxamata]

@@LiamMoynihan joke (Russian). driven not without risk. as if they put all the money on red

[@rachelbrodie7932]

I hope you don’t drive like you ride 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@LiamMoynihan]

Hahaha! Thankfully I'm a bit more relaxed on the roads haha

[@tispokes1563]

Fun until you hit the guy already on the ground. Thumbs down

[@LiamMoynihan]

Sound, aside from the fact I didn't hit him....

[@tispokes1563]

@@LiamMoynihan more or less, but yre in full attack mode. May watch it again.

[@Youtube_Stole_My_Handle_Too]

The camera angle shows far too much of what is in front of you. We don't care about where the path goes or the opponents you overtake. We're far more interested in looking at your feet.

[@xnirvanaXnevermindx]

I've never seen an experienced rider; struggle that much to put a chain back on or swear and bitch the amout you do. congrats on 9th place, please work on sportsmanship

[@LiamMoynihan]

The chain was wedged between the frame& cassette also behind the chain guide from the impact so it wasn't a simple chain back on. Swearing is from frustration at a race going pear shaped, absolutely nothing to do with sportsmanship.

[@xnirvanaXnevermindx]

I can understand it if it's a timed run but with so many ppl around.. I'd find it very unpleasant and even distracting to hear someone's "frustrations" behind me. Not taking other athletes into consideration is pretty unsportsmanlike. That sucks about your chain.

[@Capicua718]

"Stop complaining about the slower racers you might hurt their feelings " It is a race and faster riders should complain about slow riders F@#$ that

[@karlstuart297]

He's complaining that everybody around him is slow when it was him that caused the crash when he hit the snow wall and his chain came off no pleasing people from Scotland

[@LiamMoynihan]

Hahaha are you drunk Karl?

[@LaktsuAntonioRamirez]

You were very rude and very despotic, you don't deserve many of those passes. You pushed, you demanded and you got angry if someone fell, totally unsportsmanlike attitude

[@LiamMoynihan]

Don't remember getting angry if someone fell... but yeh I'm a bit frustrated and shout for warning as I pass etc. Remember the camera is about 10cm from my mouth and other riders are several meters away so the shouts sound loud and the other stuff you hear is muttering to myself. Either way if youve ever watched or taken part in any sport, you'd see that I didn't actually do anything unsporting but cheers for the feedback all the same

[@Ugly_Giant_Bag_of_Mostly_Water]

Seemed unsympathetic here