While the 2011 British Universities and College Sports mountain biking championships took place last weekend, it takes our British agency (Wiff Leavuh) a little longer to relay the info, and even then I actually have to research it so our readers across the pond don’t castrate me. For instance, did you know they call a bicycle a car?

Anywho, a video of the BUCS mountain biking championships has been making the rounds, namely because it features phenomenal wrecking and general spillage. It certainly lacks in the nut shot department, but Britain’s always had a more refined humor than us blokes in the States. Emyr Davies of the University of Wales Institute, Carniff and Tom Bell of Leeds University took home the biking gold, while… what’s that? You don’t give a crap and you just want me to get to the chaos?

You only have to tell me once.

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You know, I’ve always enjoyed the dangerous, freewheeling antics of BMX riders, but I’ve always felt that that particular extreme sport just isn’t quite, well, extreme enough.  The bikes are too small to get to terrifyingly dangerous speeds, and the smooth curves of the terrain park just aren’t treacherous enough.

What the sport of extremely dangerous bicycle stunts needs is… mountains!  Yeah!  Big, steep-ass mountains that propel bikes faster than you could possibly pedal them, with crazy jumps onto uneven dirt and shards of rock!  Consuela, fetch me my Mountain Dew! I have bones to break, and the word “gnarly” to use!

[Shred or Die]