On-bike footage can offer a fascinating – and terrifying – insight into life in the peloton, as this video from stage four of the Tour Down Under shows.

Jeremy Roy (FDJ.fr), who has already posted footage from stages one and three, had a narrow escape when he avoided a huge, 75km/h pile-up on the finishing straight, showing lightning-fast reactions and deft bike handling skills to squeeze through an almost invisible gap.

“Hope everyone is ok. Don’t ask me how I did it!” said Roy when posting the video on Twitter.

Though Roy somehow avoided the crash, Kenny de Haes (Lotto Soudal) and Laurens de Vreese (Astana) were not so lucky and were among a number of riders to take a bad tumble just in front of the Frenchman.

Team Sky’s Ian Stannard was also among the riders to come off, dismounting and ‘dancing’ his way through the carnage, as this Vine clip shows.