Well, at least he is wearing a safty helmet (grin)!!
I remember back in the old days when we actually used a bike to get form point A to point B. Sigh!!
I also remember when my brakes finally gave out and I used to put my foot between the frame and the front wheel to stop. My mother got soooo pissed off at me, I went through the soles of shoes like they were paper...
Very few of us can do the things this kid in the video is doing, and very few of us want to try.
My first bike was a used CCM single speed (there only was one speed back then) and it cost $10.00. I used it to deliver the daily papers until I saved up enough to buy a new one. It was very different from the 21-speed mountain bike I have now. Bikes have improved a lot in 67 years. (I wish I had!)
I was kinda amused when seeing "A Scanner Darkly" to hear the 16 speed bike joke was modernized to 21 speed. I'd never really thought about it before, how the 21 speed bikes are a recent advancement. I started on a single speed bike my dad bought for 10GBP from a junk shop and had to rebuild. My next bike I wanted to be a Raleigh GrifterAs to extreme stunts, I just saw Banlieue 13, which was written by Luc Besson, and pretty much put together by the same team as The Transporter. It features a lot of "La Parkour" (sp) stunts, all done for real, no wires, no nets. Seeing this cyclist reminded me of that film.
The only crazy thing I've done with my bicycle (about 45 years ago) was riding backwards. I mean, it was a regular bicycle of that time, and I was sitting on the handlebar looking over my shoulder in order to see where I was heading ...
I had never seen it anywhere before, I had just the idea to do so, and I was determined, so I learned it, and it was not very easy;-)
But once learned it's never unlearned - I can do it still today, even if there was a gap of many years ...
I don't want to do stunts like this, but if I could do those kinds of stunts, I think I would have a great deal of confidence that I could handle any of the little problems that crop up when riding a bike from point A to point B. Extreme skills can make the bumps that sorely test most of us seem smooth as silk.
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Well, at least he is wearing a safty helmet (grin)!!
I remember back in the old days when we actually used a bike to get form point A to point B. Sigh!!
I also remember when my brakes finally gave out and I used to put my foot between the frame and the front wheel to stop. My mother got soooo pissed off at me, I went through the soles of shoes like they were paper...
Very few of us can do the things this kid in the video is doing, and very few of us want to try.
My first bike was a used CCM single speed (there only was one speed back then) and it cost $10.00. I used it to deliver the daily papers until I saved up enough to buy a new one.
It was very different from the 21-speed mountain bike I have now.
Bikes have improved a lot in 67 years. (I wish I had!)
I was kinda amused when seeing "A Scanner Darkly" to hear the 16 speed bike joke was modernized to 21 speed. I'd never really thought about it before, how the 21 speed bikes are a recent advancement. I started on a single speed bike my dad bought for 10GBP from a junk shop and had to rebuild. My next bike I wanted to be a Raleigh GrifterAs to extreme stunts, I just saw Banlieue 13, which was written by Luc Besson, and pretty much put together by the same team as The Transporter. It features a lot of "La Parkour" (sp) stunts, all done for real, no wires, no nets. Seeing this cyclist reminded me of that film.
My mistake Le Parkour.
Fascinating history, and I seem to remeber EO posting a video clip of this a year or so back.
Wow! (Clapping my hands :-)
The only crazy thing I've done with my bicycle (about 45 years ago) was riding backwards. I mean, it was a regular bicycle of that time, and I was sitting on the handlebar looking over my shoulder in order to see where I was heading ...
I had never seen it anywhere before, I had just the idea to do so, and I was determined, so I learned it, and it was not very easy;-)
But once learned it's never unlearned - I can do it still today, even if there was a gap of many years ...
I don't want to do stunts like this, but if I could do those kinds of stunts, I think I would have a great deal of confidence that I could handle any of the little problems that crop up when riding a bike from point A to point B. Extreme skills can make the bumps that sorely test most of us seem smooth as silk.
awesome
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