Video: Backflips on a vintage ladies' bike

That's why mum's gone to flatland! (pun © VecchioJo)


Dave Atkinson, February 14, 2012

Ladies bike backflip

Here's a great way to fill a bit of your working day: watch French trickster Mickael Dupont showcase his skills aboard a bike fundamentally unsuitable for the purpose. This is painfully evident when he basically folds it in half jumping it off a wall early on, but a bit of iron bar and welding kit and it's, erm, as good as new. Cue ever more extraordinary stuff, culminating with a full-on backflip down the dirt jumps. Just goes to show it's not about the bike, eh...

LOVE it

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posted by jezzzer [314 posts] 14th February 2012 - 14:28

superb!

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posted by Fringe [1041 posts] 14th February 2012 - 15:21

Good fun.

posted by Super Domestique [1119 posts] 14th February 2012 - 15:43

That's just ace !

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posted by timbola [169 posts] 14th February 2012 - 16:08

that was brilliant

posted by mandy [77 posts] 14th February 2012 - 16:54

Can I live there? Beautiful place.

MercuryOne

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posted by MercuryOne [725 posts] 14th February 2012 - 22:19

loved the first "repair" Smile

still on the 3rd switch-back of Bwlch !

posted by therevokid [448 posts] 15th February 2012 - 12:31

Like Danny Macaskill but with a little more Gallic nonchalance. n'esp pa?

arrieredupeleton

posted by arrieredupeleton [385 posts] 15th February 2012 - 13:28

Chapeau!

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posted by DaveP [462 posts] 15th February 2012 - 17:59

arrieredupeleton wrote:
Like Danny Macaskill but with a little more Gallic nonchalance. n'esp pa?

Just what i thought, a bit rough around the edges but much better that MacAskill as its not top of the range kit

A few bits had me cringing because it was destroying a bike Big Grin

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posted by Gkam84 [6481 posts] 15th February 2012 - 20:21

It shows what an inherently crap design the trad open 'women's' frame is - folds up with one good kick. And unnecessarily heavy. You can almost feel the dead weight just watching these jumps, it lands like a sack of spuds. It's not ALL about the bike, no - but it is at least a BIT about the bike.
These guys are just brilliant though, excellent video.

posted by bikeylikey [122 posts] 16th February 2012 - 9:01

How does someone get so good on a bike and still have his sac intact? Incredible.

posted by hammerhed [4 posts] 16th February 2012 - 10:02

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