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Ladies bike backflipVideo: Backflips on a vintage ladies' bike
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...
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.
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How does someone get so good on a bike and still have his sac intact? Incredible.
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.
Chapeau!
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
loved the first "repair"
Can I live there? Beautiful place.
that was brilliant
That's just ace !
Good fun.
superb!
LOVE it