“After a night of drinking, my friend thought it would be a good idea to go down the escalator with his bicycle,” says YouTube user Pr0uditalian, posting the above footage shot at the Pacific City shopping mall in Huntington Beach, California.
As the video shows, it wasn’t so much the ride down the escalator that caused his pal to come to grief – rather that no-one had employed sufficient foresight to work out he’d head straight into a glass wall when he got there.
Not one to try at home … or indeed at the Trafford Centre, Bluewater, Westfield Stratford City or whatever your local shopping centre happens to be.
9 thoughts on “Video: When riding a bike down an escalator, check there isn’t a wall at the bottom”
Might have got away with it
Might have got away with it if he had brakes!
At least it was security
At least it was security glass: imagine if it was just window glass and he’d gone through…
neither a road bike, nor on
neither a road bike, nor on the road, or racing or commuting.
Shame the young lady rushes ove to see if he’s OK, she should have just made a gesture at the tool.
pretty poor planning, should have gone down the up escalator, a cetain releative speed between the bike and the escalaotr is required for balance, but the speed must be low enough to stop at the bottom. to ride down the down escalator he must exceed the speed of the steps.
Very lucky he didn’t go through the glass
How fortunate he had the
How fortunate he had the foresight to wear a helmet, otherwise he would certainly be dead. Most certainly. No doubt about it. Dead.
No, hang on, wait a minute………
MURICA!
HELL YEAH!
MURICA!
HELL YEAH!
bl00dy Hipster fixie risers..
bl00dy Hipster fixie risers…
Actually that went a lot
Actually that went a lot better than I thought it would…
There was a crash..? All I
There was a crash..? All I saw was him start to go down the escalator and then all I could see was the blonde…
Absoultly wrecked the forks!
Absoultly wrecked the forks! Check the first and last frames of the video!