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Video: US number one hit Cheap Thrills played entirely on a bicycle
Despite reaching number one in ten countries and number two in the UK, it’s possible that Cheap Thrills by the Australian singer Sia passed you by. Even if that’s the case, you could probably guess that a bicycle wasn’t the only instrument used on the original, as it apparently is on this cover version by Kurt Hugo Schneider and singer Kina Grannis.
This is not the first time a bike’s been used to make music. In 2014, Johnnyrandom took a childhood fascination with “the sound of the spokes” and expanded it to explore the full range of sounds that a bike can make to produce his debut single, Bespoken.
Back in 2011, composer Roger Lima created a track entitled Specialized Beats, for which he employed two Specialized mountain bikes as percussion instruments.
More recently, a man appeared on Britain’s Got Talent spinoff show, Got Talent Global, playing a bike he’d drilled and adapted so that it could be played like a flute.
Alex has written for more cricket publications than the rest of the road.cc team combined. Despite the apparent evidence of this picture, he doesn't especially like cake.
State of the roads round here, the only choice. So much flooding I got waterproof trousers and socks !!
Yeah, a separate coach park would make sense, but would it cause issues with loading up the coach after a match? I could imagine it taking longer...
Driver crashes into a woman's car then gives police incriminating footage...
bravely filming cyclists navigating a car dominated world
Looks like they've already achieved the "UK standard" for infra provision here... (it's a bit faded but that is indeed a cycle lane dumping you...
But this was a brand new bike. How could forks have abraded ? I've had CF forks for years and never had any issues or abrasion.
So I live in clevedon. On occasion I talk to people from places other than clevedon. None of them laugh at me for infrastructure changes. I...
Why are we having this discusion? It is just not going to happen, it is totally unworkable, we have talked about children, what about MTB riders,...
I built up the rim brake equivalent frameset with existing Ultegra drivetrain and Fulcrum Racing 3 wheels, just under 7.8kg with pedals so...
It's a Replica Pro from 2000/2001, not a Penta Pro which came in 2002 and which had slightly different rear stays and fork. The wheelset is from a...