What was the product again?
Flippin Eck!
Tue, May 15, 2012 22:42
You can’t do that on that. Oh.
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Jo Burt has spent the majority of his life riding bikes, drawing bikes and writing about bikes. When he’s not scribbling pictures for the whole gamut of cycling media he writes words about them for road.cc and when he’s not doing either of those he’s pedaling. Then in whatever spare minutes there are in between he’s agonizing over getting his socks, cycling cap and bar-tape to coordinate just so. And is quietly disappointed that yours don’t He rides and races road bikes a bit, cyclo-cross bikes a lot and mountainbikes a fair bit too. Would rather be up a mountain.
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polainm 10 minutes ago
He was killed by a driver, not a 'vehicle'. Nor are pedestrians hit by a bicycle. Unless Murdoch is funding the reporting.
ChrisA 21 minutes ago
@ROOTminus1 An electrically assisted pedal cycle can be outside of the UK legal requirements, such as a Class 1 from the US, but it is still, technically, an electrically assisted pedal cycle. Likewise, your "US suburban" shed is still a house and the cybertruck is still a piece of shit. The original point was about classification of the vehicles and the lack of granularity within the classification. Are these bad boys, EAPCs, overpowered EAPCs, throttle controlled EAPCs (now an e-motorbike) or just e-motorbikes? This needs to be a technical appraisal. Legally they are all illegal (if unregistered, taxed, insured, etc.), apart from the first one. What are people wanting to achieve with these illegal machines? Is it faster, further, fun, food, felony, f... the rules? If you want to deal with the problem, you need to know what the problem is.
polainm 25 minutes ago
Logical: use limited police resources/intelligence to deal with the number one killer of U25s; drivers (source:WHO) and the biggest deterrent to cycling; close passing drivers. UK policing mindset: Follow the Murdoch brainwashing mode and target people riding bikes at over 15mph, despite a bike speedo not being a legal requirement.
lesterama 26 minutes ago
‘Hold my bagpipes’. Hold my Tennents Extra, surely?
captain_slog 32 minutes ago
I've never seen the point of being able to do a wheelie. But riding no hands may be necessary for fastening your jersey in order to display the sponsor's logo during your finish-line celebration.
chrisonabike 34 minutes ago
@mdavidford yes! That's what we understand by "making it safe for vulnerable road users" (even if not on roads) here! Open the space to motor vehicles "to share", then when the casualties go up, shove all the non-motorists together into less space "for safety". Let the resulting fight over scraps reduce the "problem road users" * still further! * The problem not being that they "don't pay road tax" but there's not a billion-(trillion?) pound walking and cycling lobby. Although why the cake-sellers aren't also involved I don't know. Shurely more cycling, more fuel (cake) sold?
mitsky 37 minutes ago
I look forward to the stats being published showing the reduction in KSIs is big enough to justify this nonsense... Whilst nowhere near enough time, energy and money is spent on reducing the much bigger cause of KSIs.
wtjs 55 minutes ago
@chrisonabike So the cyclists can help to slow down the buses! But it doesn't work- at least, not where Lancashire Constabulary and Stagecoach MW are concerned ttps://upride.cc/incident/px12dnv_stagecoach41_closepass/
JMcL_Ireland 1 hour ago
Just wait til she hears about these:
andystow 1 hour ago
I can wheelie for a few seconds sometimes. I have mudguards on most of my bikes, though, and I think the rear would hit if I tried to ride one. I can ride for miles and miles with my hands off the bars except on my Brompton, but I still get nervous if I try to take a layer off, picturing myself getting stuck with both hands behind my back. I do it sometimes, but I usually stop.
10 thoughts on “Flippin Eck!”
Professional rider. Closed
Professional rider. Closed course. Do not attempt.
Uh, OK then.
mooseman wrote:Professional
you’ll also need a road bike that magically morphs into a cyclo-cross bike, with a saddle-dropper and flat pedals
a bit like the once Lance had…
VecchioJo wrote:mooseman
How can you tell? I struggle to make out the details and at least looking at the beam shot seems to be clipped in with overshoes and all? At one point the fork does look a bit round, but could be the angle?
VecchioJo wrote:
a bit like
I’ll think you find that the magic came in small phials :B
What’s with the hating? Its
What’s with the hating? Its far easier to prove guilt, rather harder to prove a negative yet no one even started a case. So until someone actually even starts a court case I’ll give “cancer charity fundraising machine” ($53m given to various causes in 2010 alone) the benefit of the doubt.
That is cool. I wish there
That is cool. I wish there was more footage of him shredding the trails.
More info here:
More info here: http://www.vitalmtb.com/videos/member/Backflipping-a-Road-Bike-on-Dirt,13332/sspomer,2?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=spotlight
Love that, Not that i’m going
Love that, Not that i’m going to go out and try back flips, I tried that on a BMX once and landed on my shoulder 👿 although i’ve got plenty of air on jumps on a drop bar road bike thats not be modified in any way. Its quite scary though
Wish they hadn’t cut out him
Wish they hadn’t cut out him ‘landing’ that 360.
[*NB I cannot do these tricks. I am not as good as him either way. This is just the comment of an envious man]
Freestyle cyclocross is so
Freestyle cyclocross is so November 18th 2011 🙂
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