Remember Bas Keep and his video from last year in which the BMX stunt rode down walls in Brighton and Croydon?
> Video: Amazing skills as BMX ace Bas Keep rides down walls
Well, he’s back with another video, and in this one takes to a tunnel beneath a reservoir with some pals to do a bit of riding.
Getting down there was an achievement in itself, and could only be done when the water level in the reservoir was low, with access gained via ladder from what Keep described as a “plughole” – basically, the reservoir’s overflow system.
Once down there, there were some top skills on show as well as cups of tea being passed around (in proper cups, too) – although as Keep points out, if someone had a crash and for example broke a leg, there’s no way out.
As he says in the description to the video on YouTube, “terrifying” – well, it is Halloween …
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10 thoughts on “Video: Bas Keep rides tunnel beneath a reservoir”
SPOILER ALERT: they don’t
SPOILER ALERT: they don’t ride ‘down’ it – that would have been well cool.
What they do is have a peak into the abyss, then walk to the other end and ride their bikes along it from the outflow, and get a bit mucky, then play in it like a damp half-pipe. No-one even attempts a 360.
in other words, exactly what me and my mate Kent used to do of a Saturday afternoon, bored shitless in rural New Zealand, me on my Healing Malvern Star, him on his Grifter.
Except we didn’t have HD cameras to make what was basically a bike ride seem like a Red Bull Rampage-in-waiting that never arrives.
Sorry if I burst anyone’s bubble, but please feel free to use the 20 minutes I just saved you to do something useful with your life 🙂
KiwiMike wrote:
Thanks for that, I didn’t get far before the kiddies pissed me off and I lost interest!
Stop saying Reservewire.
Stop saying Reservewire.
Top bants, what lads!
Christ I must be old dudes,
That made no sense to me, at all, rad! total! insane! like dude!
That was sick! Or wicked! Or wired! Or Shredded! Or insane!
Not a bad video, just needs
Not a bad video, just needs editing down to about a minute – preferably without the audio.
I started this expecting a
I started this expecting a sinkhole style drop in (given his past exploits, not beyond the realms of possibility).
BMX has progressed so far now you become numb to how skillful it really is. Amazing how daft you have be to make a video that makes any impact these days.
Too long and the constant
Too long and the constant screaming and mindless shouting is irritating as hell. Cool though
Doing nothing to reduce my
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dglsdms wrote:
Hmm, you might want to come down to the skateparks or racetracks in Brixton or Peckham or Dagenham or Hayes and try to say that out loud. I doubt you’d like the the reaction you’d get. Alternatively, you might want to come to any of those skateparks or race tracks and keep your own counsel. Either way, you’ll certainly revise your opinion.
Most of the BMX racetracks I’ve been to in the UK are located in rather less fashionable areas of cities. Skateparks are rarely in upmarket areas as well. Not many of the BMXers I know are poshies, myself included.
OldRidgeback wrote:
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