WILDEST thing I've EVER seen on a bike

Why did the chicken cross the road?
Or more specifically, how did the cyclist avoid the chicken crossing the road?
ok ok, the jokes, the puns, the banter is endless, but lets actually slow this incredible incident down and find out if the cyclist stays upright and if so ... HOW???
The footage was shot on a GOPRO Hero 11 black mini, from my handlebars in 5.3k at an 8:7 ratio.
I should also mention, the look and stye of the video is a 100% complete rip off of the great ‪@LanterneRougeCycling‬ ... strongly he decided against covering the weekday chop in Sydney 😂
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[@lovenottheworld5723]

I ran over a seagull's wing once. After twenty years I still feel sorry for that bird to this day. And now this just brings it all back.

[@lupo3694]

damn it, you just brought back the painful memory of me accidentally steping on a baby mole at a festival once. It's been many years, but I still feel really bad whenever I think of it. I just didn't see it.

[@JwallzMTB]

ive killed plenty of bunnies and squirrels just to not swerve and take out my fellow riders. better to do what labs did,

[@aaron___6014]

Just a mindset. I know people who have killed hundreds of birds. Seagulls ruthless resilient scavengers anyways.

[@lovenottheworld5723]

@@aaron___6014 But I love them.

[@johnnunn8688]

Seagull, meh.

[@neilmckenna236]

Absolutely crazy save .... the overlaping wheel was the issue but .... i mean wow ! The guy on the lab71 must have been thinking 'not the new bike 😩' 😅

[@WhySoLoud]

yeah, save the mega-bike for the weekend races,

[@ianblaiklock1413]

I'm guessing the overlapping wheel only happened because the guy in front likely slowed fairly rapidly with the incoming bird. Hard to be critical of anything in that situation of an unpredictable bird.

[@neilmckenna236]

@Ian Blaiklock absolutely, it's not like a bird is the usual obstacle you are dealing with 🤣🙈

[@Wolf_DeNoire]

Amen brother. I was thinking that sweet bike could have been toast. He road that like a champ. Cannondale should use that in a commercial... So aero that the birds want to catch a ride.

[@neilmckenna236]

@@Wolf_DeNoire 🤣 deffo in a commercial, i like that 🤣👊

[@U.s.e.r.3493]

Amazing control from both. Kudos to the LAB71 dude for helping the bin chicken cross the road

[@richardauyeung720]

You're right, someone who would pay $15,000 usd for that Lab71 paint job is wild

[@MattyBrad]

No fu ks given

[@Timtimzi]

for that much money you can get a cooler looking pinarello :).

[@RimBrakeKing]

I think he’s sponsored by Cannondale. Rides for a new team in Australia

[@apair4002]

Yeah true, gullible people will buy it anyway.

[@swespeedy1]

..and then ride on it in circles around 3.8km park, because that is your only choice there 😂

[@valiantabello]

I'd be dead. Props to Foghorn

[@playmoreguitar5393]

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!! A proper test of hen-durance. That foot down skate was pure poultry-in-motion.

[@time9878]

ffs

[@buckdashe2571]

You used it all up, mate!

[@GiorgioCoppolaCycling]

The best lab 71 review so far 😂 solid bike for road kill 😂

[@richcole3931]

what is wrong with you?

[@nuggunu]

🤣🤣

[@bitminerbob6731]

Technically that's not a chicken. It's an Ibis, but called a Bin chicken, but loved the bad dad joke and drum sound effect lol. :D Mad skillz on the bike there too!!

[@bowlachilli1444]

I hit a turkey once while on the MTB, but I went down like a ton of bricks. Then the turkey tried to bite me.

[@Shadowboost]

Turkeys are no joke

[@davezor21]

Crazy save and control. One thing I just wish you added Chris was the Welfare of the Ibis. I know they are bin chickens and have a low bar reputation in Australia but the Ibis got smashed by 3 bikes. Did anyone stop to see if it was ok? Pretty harsh to be fair don't you think?

[@quirijnv6793]

I'm afraid he's passed on. The ibis is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace.

[@rawdonwaller]

I agree

[@noobabros]

I know a guy that knows one of the guys and said it lived to tell the tale

[@axelmogr]

rider in the back picked it up for a lovely post-ride roast🍗

[@skiparock]

at 15k usd, no way he is laying that bike down to save a chicken

[@tommythetankcrzcntrl]

As saying goes “it’s better to be lucky than good!” …so you asked about shoe quality so here is one short anecdote: 2-years ago I was in a KOM type ride and coming back realized that my front brakes were totally gone, this was after starting a ride with almost no rear brakes thinking all would be good for at least one ride(yes I’m that dumb)! At the moment I realized I could longer control my descent I clipped out my right foot that was enveloped in a Bont VaporS and went Flintstones by thrusting my foot into the pavement. This move allowed to slow just enough for my riding partner Coach Cruz to catch me and I was able to use him (and his brakes) to stop me from shooting off a 300 foot Cliff! So I’m that moment yes my shoes saved my life and of course the quick reactions of my riding partner! Cheers mate - awesome video!!!

[@rbuenafe100]

That was an incredible save. I live in NYC and commute to work with my bike. Along my route, I pass by a live poultry market. There was a small chicken that somehow escaped and was just feeding along the side of the street. As I was approaching closer, somehow he got startled and ran right into my front wheel and got stuck between the spokes and went for a ride for a few seconds. Feathers were flying everywhere and good thing it dislodged itself unhurt with only missing feathers. Several people saw what happened and can't help it but laughed.

[@nixternal]

Crazy! Probably 5 years ago during a Men's Cat 1/2 race here in Chicago, right before the start/finish a similar thing happened with a Canadian cobra chicken. Nobody crashed, however the cobra chicken did get injured and this lady went to try & save it. She made calls to wildlife conservation and had it all setup. Well, while she was doing that, a coyote showed up and taught us all about conservation.

[@henryfurlott2222]

Cobra chicken??? Not in any bird book that I have!!!

[@nixternal]

@@henryfurlott2222 I heard that from an Australian KZbinr. He does comedy play by play, hilarious.

[@hazeover100]

How to fowl up a group ride. Eggcellent video!

[@ChrisMillerCycling]

Yes! Pun of the comments so far

[@WhySoLoud]

🤣😂🤣😂😝🤪😜🚴‍♂

[@jamespurchase4035]

I've been on the wheel, going downhill, of a rider who hit a squirrel. Actually the squirrel leaped into his spokes and bounced striaght back to the roadside with an audible "ping". No cyclists harmed, squirrel probably concussed at the very least!

[@jimlakiss]

CP has a 30km/h speed limit for more than one reason… and it’s for bikes too. Kids, cars, bikes and …birds. I’ve seen carnage with dogs off leads in the centennial park; nasty.

[@skandinav_nummer1]

What CP means?

[@jimlakiss]

@@skandinav_nummer1 Centennial Park, where the video was taken here in Sydney.

[@TurneyUK]

How was the chicken!? 😮😢

[@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808]

🍗

[@Sam9wilson9]

@@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808 😂😢

[@jamesbuckle6077]

Suspect none of them care enough to check, which is pretty shameful.

[@Sam9wilson9]

@@jamesbuckle6077 ya I know I would have for sure.

[@BlaqRaq]

You guys finally did it! I didn’t think you guys could surprise me more. I’m from Jamaica and never had an encounter with a chicken. 😂😂😂 We’ve had goats, cows, cats, dogs, people, even pigeons, but never a chicken. 😅

[@moiskiandrews6784]

Dude has extraordinary reflex and great handling skills. Must be a pro.

[@changpochun5019]

At the first glance, I was thinking it is cockatoo 😂

[@javierrobledo225]

Skill is recognized on a person's ability to bail and save oneself from from a fail. Impressive.

[@chuzzybear2224]

It's worth noting that even after clipping the rear wheel of the rider ahead sending him off balance to the right, he even steered into it (albeit a little less than he would have if he hadn't skated with that right foot) to bring the bike back under himself. Getting back on the bike was the foot tap, the overcompensate leftward body lean AND aggressively steering the bike into the right hand fall the get the bike to catch up with him and catch him... and all in a few seconds. Truly incredible. I know where I'd have ended up 😅

[@blobbfish9412]

Yerp. In the ER.

[@ricecrash5225]

Bin chickens and Bush Turkeys are a constant dodge for me. Plus one specific bike path up here in Brissie where water lizards like to sunbath. 😅

[@SCWgreg]

EPIC! And your breakdown is spot on informative and hilarious!

[@Garrick42]

New the the channel, so I don't know anyone in the video, but that's the kind of paceline I want to be in when stuff gets real. And the look back? I bet he's looking for a gap in the advancing line in case he needs to hop into it to keep the flow going. I wish more folks would do that. Chapeau to all!

[@RK01]

Fair play, what a save, that guy definitely earned a beer after that one!🐔

[@greencasestudy]

Every Australian watching this video is thinking "Why is he calling it a chicken? It's an ibis." 😂

[@ChrisMillerCycling]

Haha! Problem was…if I’d said Ibis…every Australian would say “that’s not an ibis…it’s a BIN CHICKEN!” 😀

[@andrewhickie1400]

I was in CP that day - I saw those bin chooks hanging out on the road side and wondered what they were doing. Maybe eating something discarded because there was 3? Amazing this wasn’t a huge crash for all!

[@russellpaulsson]

I want to know what happened to the bird.

[@rawdonwaller]

Bird up. Loved that segment on Eric Andre.

[@NeonGrayEdits]

Chris, I recently have found your podcast, and am really enjoying it. Do you have plans on uploading it to the Sticher platform? Thanks

[@andrewpearson4772]

You should have seen the save i did when i was about 12 years old on a raleigh choper. Jumped of a kerb and the monkey bars went all the way towards the front tyre, and i managed to hold on riding it like a slammed lowrider bike coasting to a stop.

[@DanTuber]

Not chickbait...... but why did the chicken cross the road?

[@aneczka2114]

I cried laughing this guy almost dies to not hit the bird and the guy behind no f's given, strait up plows the bird

[@You-Tuber2024]

0:26 that new giant propel sure does look good whilst moving!

[@ariffau]

More intense than watching the entire Milano - Sanremo !!!

[@juliapoelstra3624]

The commentary had me laughing pretty good. 😂. Nicely done everyone.

[@simonhj]

At that spot at Centennial Park, you're lucky it wasn't a goose! They're bigger and angrier!

[@stevehageman6785]

Wow, who knew that a shoes 'skating ability' would ever save you! Man, that was just too close. Glad everyone came out OK. The wheel overlap was a real issue. When I was younger and something like this would happen (on a MTB bike, on dirt, thank goodness never happened on tarmac) , the world used to switch to slow motion and I would think to myself: "I've got it.... I've got it.... I've got it...." until I finally hit the deck. Now, one moment I'm up, the next I'm on the dirt. I think fast-mo is actually better, same result, less thinking about it! ;-)

[@Shadowboost]

I hit the deck at 25 mph last year and no that exact feeling. Almost saved it until I didn't

[@christinearbogast6751]

The commentary is golden!😂😂

[@saracen888]

The up facing bridge shot is unreal

[@darrellstyner0001]

This is the content I'm here for. Great stuff. More insane animal encounters please.

[@DynamiteDB]

The ad before this video was a Wild Turkey ad 🤣

[@PaganiZondaF650hp]

The Lab71 dude took the birds chance at an open casket funeral 😢

[@elizabethmcgovern9731]

Great reflexis keeping cool using the shoe plate as a skate and not giving up.

[@jonathanwilson8278]

"The guy behind Foghorn just plows...through.' 😂 That still at 3:25 is just gold 🤣

[@jonathanwilson8278]

Mate, one of the best I've seen in a long time! Thanks!

[@mrwezbo]

"Great ride feel" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 loved the vid!

[@Pumpedandy]

I once saw a significantly sized strap on, on a bike path Hard to top that

[@robertkehl9034]

Great save I have been in similar situations. The lead rider unexpectedly slowed down and caused the overlap.

[@daviddh7493]

I really like the Helmet view camera! Lab71 bike nice but where are all the Cervelo S5 with SRAM?

[@robredpath9860]

So much skill on show there, I wish my neurological system was that quick at getting the foot out rather than just flopping on the floor in a heap I’d of saved myself a fortune in kit and bike equipment, not to mention the amount of hours at the hospital and dressing wounds! Bloke on the lab 71 was equally as impressive. Most people would of swerved to the left or right!

[@maitaioe9455]

Completely ignore the fact the the third ridder straight-up murdered the chicken. What a classy group of road bikers ye all are!

[@daveirvine]

Great bike control by Foghorn, but the video editing was also next level Chris! You mentioned in the video trying different camera mounting positions. I have tried most of them and the mouth grill that VC uses is the best I think (I call it the ball gag!). You can get a good angle where you can see the head unit and good view of what is going on like this kzbin.info/www/bejne/mICwcoSboLyNb5I

[@lukealsford7079]

Gets more outrageous everytime you watch it.

[@timpie4456]

Late into this. Spectacular save there. Im in the UK these days but Centennial Park was my stomping ground for the 1980s and 90s as I lived in Bondi Junction for years. Guessing there is still the same agro between drivers and chaingangs? I so miss the place.

[@matthewhall8790]

A friend of mine hit a bear while riding his bicycle. He was knocked unconscious and when he regained consciousness, the bear was gone.

[@mypojam]

Absolute perfect dismount on the clip and to 'skate' wow just impressive work all round!

[@arglebarglefoofara]

Great work!! fan of the in the mouth camera... just seems to be a great angle.

[@glbernini0]

Amazing reflexes from all the riders!

[@650gringo]

The bike ahead of me ran straight over a full grown duck. Duck shook it off and walked away.

[@VenUSApocalypse]

Incredible that so many sad events happen in such a brief moment 😮

[@magnacircenses]

He was Foghorn…now he’s the Colonel… Definitely promoted.

[@neilweir-smith8228]

Good save well done. Apologies for the next part in advance: It's not a chicken but an Ibis.

[@lin_osborne]

Un-be-freaking-leavable save! Feel bad for the bird but that is crazy impressive (and incredibly lucky, I suspect).

[@kevinlance1813]

Respect for that save. Envy the fearless way these guys ride.

[@goonzjav]

Anyone going to tell us what happened to the poor bird

[@keenanmcbreen7073]

That is a mind boggling save, actual ninja reflexes.

[@porth4250]

“Bin Chicken” a day with a new Oz-ism to learn is a good day.

[@aliensporebomb]

Now that should be in the dictionary under "exceptional bike control".

[@stbeck]

Bloody amazing, no idea how he held that up

[@tristanm8250]

Was the chicken OK?

[@barrymantz6026]

When I was 8 I already was cycling with my dad. One day I braked for a cat. It hesitated to cross the road. I wanted her to pass the street before me. But it decides to go in between my wheels.

[@greatvedas]

This is unbelievable! KZbin should make this go viral.

[@wisskier]

I was in the middle of a group and I heard TURKEY! the group was disturbed but we all kept two down.

[@richardpowell1425]

Is that Centennial Park in Syndey?

[@billkipper3264]

Once, while descending a steep paved bike path on my mountain bike I had a bird literally swoop down out of nowhere and under my front tire. I didn't go down, and in fact, barely felt anything. However, the timing was amazingly bad for the bird. I stopped, went back and found the bird alive but mortally injured. As much as I hated it I had to wring it's neck.

[@mrupholsteryman]

I've heard that bird flew can be fatal...😅🤣😂

[@mylittlepitbull3143]

I was in a criteria with my friend Tommy Dennison and he got a flat in the middle of a corner right next to me and he clipped out and dragged his foot through the corner and saved himself. 1990

[@Kzuke]

This analysis was amazing! 😂

[@DumbledoreMcCracken]

That's why I ride up Tantalus, but never down. Chickens

[@allenjay896]

Lab71 guy is prolly like “oh nah not my 15,000 plastic that could go 60kmh”

[@MartFish]

Main factor here is not bailing himself, the fact he held tight to those bars saved him the most in my experience

[@vibratingstring]

I rode through a flok of chickns on my 3 speed raleigh while being chased by a doberman. This was when I was 12. I broke 40 on my speedometer. The farmer started cussing like asailor when I wnet through. Cloud of feathers andchicken noises--I felt like I was in a Disney movie. Glad it happened :D

[@waterdeptworker]

I dont care what anyone tells me...But they play highlights of football catches, slam dunks, etc...I DONT CARE!! This is 100% Harder than ANY OF THOSE!! Hands down!!

[@donadams8345]

I was once riding along a street and a large squirrel zipped out from a yard and strained itself through my front wheel spokes. I came to a rapid stop. The poor squirrel unfortunately died instantly, likely of a broken neck.

[@intowatch3197]

I have to say that is pure skill!!! Riding 40Km/h and he did that. It's just amazing!!

[@dhldt1021]

Amazing save and skill of the rider. I think I beheaded a bird a few months ago when it flew into my rear wheel. I couldn't do much about it, but I felt bad, and stayed upright.

[@richcole3931]

Did anyone stop and check the chicken?

[@nearfox6665]

Ow Man the timing. That thing always i hate when i turnback or check gear. Then there is a bump or material that will make my wheel flat.

[@helicart]

A mate and I were on a bicycle track in wetlands in Brisbane, and a Eurasian Coot walked out in front of us, and my mate ran over it. It spine was obviously severed, so he smacked it over the head with a big stick to put it out of its misery. Was the most humane thing to do.

[@helicart]

Sad that none of you cyclists stopped to check on the bird.

[@simonbartram9231]

I once hit a deer which was running in a field beside me. Going downhill at over 25 mph I lost sight of it as the hedge line got higher and all of sudden it comes out in front of me. It sees me I’m instantly in full lock on the brakes but the deer somehow manages to slide 90 degrees in the road and we hit each other and my bike comes off the road and I manage to stay upright! Scariest near crash ever. Can’t believe I got away with it so well done to the chap in the video for saving himself and his fellow riders 😁👍

[@thewatopian7338]

shoes in the future will have skid plates just from this video. great skill/reflexes from that dude. would have been a tragedy if its was a much amateur bunch

[@fucktheworld1207]

The man is a stuntman on a bike, that was fucking impressive 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@manueldeubler1127]

Seems not like a chicken to me. More like an Australian white ibis. Not really sure, I just googled white Australian bird with long beak.

[@stijnw5336]

It's an albino ealge i think

[@liambertuzzi]

Their common name is bin chickens

[@postiez]

@@liambertuzzi Ohhhh, that makes sense. I was worried I was losing my mind. Thanks

[@oxymoron9081]

📌 The sound effects and commentary about Foghorn is All-Word my Guy! 😂😂😂 Could you please share what model camera you’re using?

[@rabidsminions2079]

The Chicken is an Ibis. They are everywhere in that park.

[@kevingregoire1042]

Wondering What are the silversurfer’s bike and cleats ( did they have the rubbery bits like all shimano and half the looks, where they metal or plastic, speedplay plates, another cannondale, Systemsix maybe 🤔 ) Great save, sorry for the ibis, those birds are just as cool as the lab71.

[@OTBTBDA]

Good save but what happened to the bird or unusual looking chicken? It looks like the bird got its wing run over and possibly broken. But good save!!

[@jacklalalaful]

That's a bin chicken aka an ibis, it can fly it just chose not to

[@cjohnson3836]

Avian bones of very porous to cut weight. They are quite fragile. That bird is not flying at best. Likely toast.