Changing bikes in the middle of a race sounds like stress and a loss of time. Quentin Jauregui performed a spectacular Formula 1 change at the junior race of the 2012 Road World Championships.
An internet video from the World Cycling Championships in Limburg shows the astonishing speed with which you can change your sports equipment in the middle of a race: One coach of the French national team grabs the broken bike, a second pushes the new one into position and the rider sits on the bike in a flash. The whole thing happens so quickly that you can hardly recognise it without slow motion - chapeau!
However, the rider is also well-trained: Jauregui is the reigning French cyclocross champion and, as such, jumping on a bike is of course part of everyday training.
