Whilst sifting through youtube following tangential threads starting from ‘amusing cat videos’ I ended up on this. Now, don’t get me wrong, I like tricks on fixers but this makes me feel a little confused. Please share your comments.
Pulling wheelies
Thu, Feb 12, 2009 19:38
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captain_slog 9 hours ago
I see quite a few MAAP items out in the Surrey Hills. The new shop has a cafe and they're from Melbourne so the coffee should be good: I'm looking forward to visiting.
jackcycles 12 hours ago
@chrisonabike Mercedes was acceptable, but the second one (old Toyota people carrier/ex-taxi) was a prosecutable offence.
Rendel Harris 14 hours ago
I wasn't saying that nor talking about people who say that. I said it was silly to claim that wearing a helmet indicates acceptance of dangerous driving and poor infrastructure. I choose to wear a helmet; I also regularly report dangerous driving to the police and correspond with councils and road authorities about ways infrastructure could be improved for cyclists. I rather doubt I'm the only helmet wearer who does so.
Steve K 14 hours ago
@JamieT (a pedant writes) she's a London Assembly member, not an MP.
eburtthebike 17 hours ago
@Rendel Harris ".....but the claim that wearing one is somehow to be accepting dangerous driving and poor infrastructure is silly." Not that silly. Demanding that cyclists wear a helmet is seen by many people as 'the answer' to cycling safety, so there's no need to put in infrastructure. The difference between infrastructure and helmets is that infrastructure works. Helmets are a distraction from what really works, and the more time we spend talking about them, the less time we spend on things that do work. Helmets should be consigned to the dustbin of history as a failed experiment, and we should cease even mentioning them.
wtjs 17 hours ago
@Mr Blackbird Hats off to George Hall My hat's not coming off- despite this touch of cycleway-washing, Hall still bears the Mark of Cain, until he repudiates his party altogether
JamieT 18 hours ago
Perhaps an article showing a) what is available in the uk as cargo bikes and) comments from real life scenarios from those already using bikes or cargo bikes as one gentleman has done in the comments. Perhaps road.cc could follow up with this. Even the London Assembly member said not every business should use cargo bikes but suggested a more nuanced approach suitable for certain trades or companies....
4 thoughts on “Pulling wheelies”
Can’t help feeling that these
Can’t help feeling that these boys are frustrated unicyclists.
Singlespeed v single wheel
No doubting those are awesome skills, but you make a fair point if they were on unicycles would it seem quite so awesome? I reckon it’s got to be harder to do that on a bike though… and bloody hell their routine goes on for 7 minutes.
Any way I’ll see your Fixie Crew and raise you… the Chinese girl on a bicycle (short version), there ain’t nobody better than the Chinese girl.
No, no, no, this IS flatland…
Granted the little lady from the orient has true skills and at one point in her reutine lucky that she has no undercarridge but this is how it is really done. See below
Matt Wilhelm at Fight With Flight from Hoffman Bikes on Vimeo.
Okay, you get the long version then…
Yeah he’s good, all right better than good, and he’s doing it (I’m guessing) on a bike with a freewheel which must make it a bit tricker, but no way is he better than her… she does it slow, which has gotta be harder than fast… and she has a wider repetoire of tricks… don’t see Matt attempting to ride around standing on his saddle. Plus where she scores for me is that some of her most stunning riding is done with both wheels on the groung, the way it should be.
Trivia note: Like the Fixie Crew vid this is from Germany