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This physics experiment will make your head spin

Dawid Godziek Slopestyle Mountainbike fahrender Zug

Photo: Bartek Wolinski / Red Bull Content Pool

Slopestyle world champion Dawid Godziek demonstrates the physical principle of relative speed: rolling against the direction of travel of a train, he objectively remains in one place, although from his perspective, or relative to the train, he is progressing quite quickly. Otherwise all the tricks wouldn't be possible either.

What happens when a mountain biker on a train moves against the direction of travel at the same speed? That's right, it stands still from the outside. Of course, just riding is too boring for slopestyler Dawid Godziek. That's why he lets an entire obstacle course glide underneath him. He then objectively no longer stands still, but jumps up and down in one place.

Of course, the Polish mountain biker also had to give his all in terms of riding technique and hit the landings precisely to avoid falling off the train. The fascinating thing about the action, however, is that he is in motion and still jumps off and lands in the same place again and again.

And as useless knowledge, we take away that Godziek moves forward at an average speed of 23 km/h during such a run. That was the speed the train had to maintain to keep the mountain biker in place.


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