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Video: Old Bike Party - stunts on some real clunkers in film inspired by Martyn Ashton

Keelan Phillips and riders from Style Bicycle put old folder, shopper and ladies' MTB bike through their paces...

A group of BMX stunt riders have re-enacted some of the scenes from Martyn Ashton’s iconic Street Bike Party video – using bikes that cost a fraction of the price of the Team Sky-issue Pinarello he rode. What’s more, none of the bikes featured in the film, Old Bike Party, survived.

Two of them, a folding bike and a shopper, cost £40 each while the third cost nothing – an abandoned wonen’s mountain bike that the team hfound, which didn’t even have a saddle.

Filmed and edited by Josh Holdsworh, the film features riders from Style Bicycle, whose founder Keelan Phillips, revealed on YouTube that the locations are Abbey Park and Western Park, both in Leicester, plus a skate park in Ruddington.

And here’s Martyn Ashton’s original, which is always worth watching again.

Ashton broke his back during a stunt riding exhibition at Silverstone in September 2013 and lost the use of his legs.

He hasn’t let that stop him riding, however, and this summer took part in his first handcycle race – while friends Chris Akrigg and Danny MacAskill stepped in to help complete Road Bike Party 2.

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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Al__S | 9 years ago
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aye, no saddle was the scariest bit!

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DaveE128 | 9 years ago
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Lol.  21 Impressive and amusing stuff  1

But that bit on the dirt jumps with no saddle is clench-inducing!  31

Looks like keeping the chain on the first bike was tricky!

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Super Domestique | 9 years ago
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Great fun.  41

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