It's an engineering fail, but riding FTW!

We don't need no stinking chains!

Geeze, why wouldn't you let the guy do a second run in that circumstance?

Dude, he won the race! Why on earth would he like another go? He could only beat himself.

I know, but why, in this sport, is it important that everyone only gets the one run? No do-over in the case of a mechanical failure right out the gate? There's no NEED to accept the bad luck... it's neat he won tho.

this may well become a new sport - the no chain run

that was off tha chain!

Actually he didn't win, he came fourth.

He topped the leader board with this run, but a few guys after him were faster.

As to why there's only one run, I dunno; you'd have to take it up with the UCI.

Where do you stop? Tyre goes flat half way down, re-run. Front fork breaks, re-run. Brake breaks, re-run.

Same with most race type disciplines (eg. rally cars), equipment failure is just part of the sport and everyone has to deal with it.

In off road racing (which I used to do), equipment failure was really usually more of an issue than driving speed. Something broke in almost every desert race I ran, it's not letting that stop you that the sport was all about, even more so when you are a lone wolf racing team (one man driver/owner/mechanic-no pit crew). I have to think the same goes in mountain biking.

If you're #13, you went in to destroy shit and be awesome, not to win a dick measurement contest. I don't know any of the "winners", only this.

Gravity, bitches.

maybe he put too much pussy on the chainwax!