Can you ride a bike?

[StokesAk]

Wow he makes it look so easy.

It is easy.....for him. 

[Xasthur]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UldAnqLiAKs

[lefty320]

Amazing how he flipped off the tree.  That beats jumping over curbs on my Walmart bike.   

[sntslilhlpr6601]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UldAnqLiAKs

Can't imagine hitting jumps like that on a bmx bike. I'd hit jumps three times as big on a dirt bike, but at least I have suspension. I have no idea how they find the pedals after doing tailwhips and stuff. Do they tighten up the crank or something?

[RightF00T]

I'm sure that dude is all muscle...it takes an incredibly strong core to keep balance like that.

[Toof]

For a tailwhip on the ground I know you stop it with the leg you didn't use to kick it around.

As for finding the pedals in some of those mid-air ones, especially the backfilp tailwhip...Pure skill and practice would be my guess.

[Xasthur]

Can't imagine hitting jumps like that on a bmx bike. I'd hit jumps three times as big on a dirt bike, but at least I have suspension. I have no idea how they find the pedals after doing tailwhips and stuff. Do they tighten up the crank or something?

Nope, the cranks aren't tightened. Most the time, though, if you have sealed bearings in the BB and a relatively firm chain tension, the cranks don't spin around too much.


This video is a bit more like the first in that it's street riding.

If you think the OP was impressive.... watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjyGiRrWfgY&fmt=18

Keep in mind that in most of the shots, this guy doesn't have any brakes on his bike at all.

Pretty crazy stuff. Pretty much all of the stuff in this video was completely unthinkable when I started riding around 7 or 8 years ago.

[Xasthur]

This is funny.

Josh Stricker, American rider in Australia (right outside the venue that I just saw Dylan Moran at, actually) riding drunk and trying to hammer a gap after no sleep.

Hahaha.

Bit of carnage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u5tfEBpWnc&fmt=18

[Xasthur]

But this is what riding is all about, I reckon.



I'd still ride if I had a place like this to ride....

[Xasthur]

Haha, few good crashes here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymCiIOTlgpE

[RTHolmes]

... and this is why drinking 3 pints at lunchtime then deciding to hit the jumps in a crappy borrowed lid is a bad idea

** contains some bad language **

http://www.lumbergh.aquiss.com/misc/stack/stack1.html

http://www.lumbergh.aquiss.com/misc/stack/stack2.html

 

[Xasthur]

Hahahah. You dork.

 

[RTHolmes]

knew i had the line all wrong on the way in so sucked up the lip (thats a huge tabletop btw) and tried to lay it down as quick as i could. glad i did - would have got more than trail rash if i'd hit that tree 

[Xasthur]

Ok, if we're going to post crash videos....






 

[RTHolmes]