Shocking footage of a cyclist hitting a crack in the tarmac on a busy road and falling off onto the pavement.

The video, filmed in Sydney, Australia on August 14, shows the cyclist lose control of his bike and veer off the road.

As the filmer later wrote online, the man is lucky to be alive because if he had fallen to the right, he would have been hit by oncoming traffic.

The filmer also wrote that the "authorities have been notified and have promised to fix the road issue."