Here's a great way to fill a bit of your working day: watch French trickster Mickael Dupont showcase his skills aboard a bike fundamentally unsuitable for the purpose. This is painfully evident when he basically folds it in half jumping it off a wall early on, but a bit of iron bar and welding kit and it's, erm, as good as new. Cue ever more extraordinary stuff, culminating with a full-on backflip down the dirt jumps. Just goes to show it's not about the bike, eh…
Video: Backflips on a vintage ladies’ bike
That’s why mum’s gone to flatland! (pun © VecchioJo)
Tue, Feb 14, 2012 13:20
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Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He’s won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and likes to ride increasingly long audaxes decreasingly fast as time goes by.
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mdavidford 3 hours ago
@SVXY Again, it doesn't say that riding three or more abreast is inconsiderate. That's just your opinion, which counts for nothing.
ajd 4 hours ago
Black bike in a black room with minimal lighting. Marketing people eh?
Blackthorne83 4 hours ago
That’s honestly the best 32” bike I’ve seen yet. Avona’s road bike is also beautiful except for the tall stack height, if they ever release a race bike I’m in.
jaymack 5 hours ago
32 inch wheels are here to stay until the next new wonder product hits the market...
AidanR 6 hours ago
@Gd29 Redshift regularly have sales with 25% off, so you should be able to pick them up for under £40 at some point
Rendel Harris 6 hours ago
@SVXY Yet again it's highly impressive how are you know the exact circumstances of this incident, now down to the exact type of footwear Ms.Tanton was sporting at the time. There are numerous types of all-terrain/hiking sandals that have far better grip than a standard pair of trainers. And once again do explain how having shoes without gaps in the uppers would have prevented Dick from driving straight into her from behind? No actually, don't bother.
SVXY 6 hours ago
@SVXY Of course because cycling on a 60mph road is far more dangerous than cycling in a 30mph zone and you need footwear with the strongest grip to react quicker if needed
Rendel Harris 9 hours ago
@SVXY So sandals are permissible footwear for cycling if you're riding at 15 mph in a 30 mph zone but they are not permissible footwear for cycling if you are riding at 15 mph in a 60 mph zone? I'm afraid this is how trolls always give themselves away because clearly no human being with the capacity to operate a computer with sufficient adroitness to post a reply could genuinely be that stupid.
SVXY 9 hours ago
mdavidford It says you can ride 2 abreast and must have consideration for other road users. So if you ride three or more abreast you could be prosecuted for careless cycling with your inconsideration for other road users under the highway code used as evidence by the CPS
Rome73 10 hours ago
I’ve got a G-Line. I quite like the look of some of that bling. I can’t imagine any of it will be cheap though. :( It’s already quite an expensive bike.
12 thoughts on “Video: Backflips on a vintage ladies’ bike”
LOVE it
LOVE it
superb!
superb!
Good fun.
Good fun.
That’s just ace !
That’s just ace !
that was brilliant
that was brilliant
Can I live there? Beautiful
Can I live there? Beautiful place.
loved the first “repair”
loved the first “repair” 🙂
Like Danny Macaskill but with
Like Danny Macaskill but with a little more Gallic nonchalance. n’esp pa?
arrieredupeleton wrote:Like
Just what i thought, a bit rough around the edges but much better that MacAskill as its not top of the range kit
A few bits had me cringing because it was destroying a bike 😀
Chapeau!
Chapeau!
It shows what an inherently
It shows what an inherently crap design the trad open ‘women’s’ frame is – folds up with one good kick. And unnecessarily heavy. You can almost feel the dead weight just watching these jumps, it lands like a sack of spuds. It’s not ALL about the bike, no – but it is at least a BIT about the bike.
These guys are just brilliant though, excellent video.
How does someone get so good
How does someone get so good on a bike and still have his sac intact? Incredible.