Originally Posted by ljsense

Yeah, the more you watch the videos, the more impressive the riding is -- mostly his, but also the guy between him and the barriers who leans against him and stays upright early on.

The rider who crashed was using his rear brake, despite the bars being detached. If you watch the video closely, his back wheel is locked up when he's doing that fish tail skid back and forth. It looks like me might be also consciously trying to use the bars to reach down to manually steer his front wheel, but not sure about that. In any case, he was fully in mental control of his body and reacting so well to the chaos of his broken bike. Watch his face and concentration -- he's still riding the bike all the way to the ground. Super impressive.