Wheel you marry me? Heart-pounding moment mountain biker fakes a crash so he can surprise his girlfriend with proposal
- Professional mountain bike racer Bienvenido Aguado was racing in Mexico
- He arranged with fellow riders to pull off a stunt to propose to his girlfriend
- The riders told Marta her boyfriend had crashed, for him to spring the surprise
This is the moment a professional mountain biker pretended to crash land after flying off a massive jump during a race in an elaborate marriage proposal.
Spanish bike rider Bienvenido Aguado enlisted his friends in the stunt to fool the rider’s girlfriend Marta Garrucho that he suffered a major accident at the Freeride Fiesta in Guadalajara, Mexico.
He and his friends filmed Marta rushing over to see Bienvenido lying ‘injured’ on the ground. As she crouches down he lifts himself up onto one knee and presents her with an engagement ring.
The team had strategically asked Marta Garrucho to film by a huge dirt jump so she could not see that Bienvenido Aguado had landed safely and was just pretending to be injured at the Freeride Fiesta in Guadalajara, Mexico
A concerned Marta rushes over to her boyfriend who is laying still on dirt track
Suddenly he springs up to onto one knee, presents the ring and proposes to a delighted Marta
The team behind the stunt had told Marta to wait by one of the largest jumps on the course so she could film the riders coming over it.
All of the racers – including Bienvenido – make the jump safely, however several of them stop and the groom-to-be lays down on the ground feigning injury.
The riders signal to Marta urgently, claiming her Catalan boyfriend has been injured.
She runs past the 20ft-high jump towards the dirt track, where the other riders are surrounding her boyfriend.
As Marta leans over her boyfriend, he rises up and presents the ring. Shocked Marta’s first reaction is to call him a rude name.
As the couple embrace, more friends gather round and applaud them.
Bienvenido shared his own footage to his Instagram account on February 8, where he praised his friends’ acting skills.
He wrote: ‘And the best actor award goes to Nicholi Rogatkin and all the other MTB riders for being so convincing in their mission. Thanks for your support guys, without you it wouldn’t have been possible.’