Trackstanding - no longer good enough

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edited October 2010 in Commuting chat
This is what all the cool kids are doing at the lights nowadays:

keep watching

this man is my new hero.
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  • AidanR
    AidanR Posts: 1,142
    That was mesmerising!
    Bike lover and part-time cyclist.
  • surreyxc
    surreyxc Posts: 293
    awesome, if I had the cash I would fly him over just to watch him do this at some traffic lights on a monday morning in front of the Mamils on their 5k bikes.
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    That was brilliant.

    This is my favourite trackstanding video.
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  • pastasauce
    pastasauce Posts: 221
    Chain is slack :D

    Talented guy.

    He'd do well at an Edgeware Rd set of lights - they're around a minute a time ...
  • snailracer
    snailracer Posts: 968
    surreyxc wrote:
    awesome, if I had the cash I would fly him over just to watch him do this at some traffic lights on a monday morning in front of the Mamils on their 5k bikes.
    The Mamils tend to fall over just clipping out.
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    snailracer wrote:
    surreyxc wrote:
    awesome, if I had the cash I would fly him over just to watch him do this at some traffic lights on a monday morning in front of the Mamils on their 5k bikes.
    The Mamils tend to fall over just clipping out.

    I've done that a couple of times. Once in heavy traffic. Very embarassing.
    That was a long time ago though.
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    FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
    FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees

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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Incredible skills - I've just watched it 4 times in a row and I haven't finished yet!

    Mind you, there must be a limit to how many times you can watch it because the woman sat on the wall at about 0:10 in, has obviously seen it all before. Must be the OH....
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  • fossyant
    fossyant Posts: 2,549
    Awesome - kids thought he was ace............
  • White Line
    White Line Posts: 887
    :lol: I love this man! I actually LOL'd a few times.

    Beats all those stupid hipsters doing their trackstand tricks. :roll:
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  • Uchiga
    Uchiga Posts: 230
    Have to admit that was some pretty amazingle stuff! I love trackstanding at the traffic lights and watching the faces of car drivers as you balance on your bike. They still look at you... and then once you shoot off the line when the reds go green they suddenly realise they should have been looking at the lights :P Then again its funnier just to watch a car zoom infront of you at a set of lights go infront of you slam on the brakes as the lights are red and you filter your way to the front free wheeling just in time for the lights to go red amber, green and you floor it past them. Never ceases to crack me up how stupid some car drivers are at a set of lights.
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  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    I stopped at the bottom of Belsize park road once, at lights, and just sat there, got it just right, no standing, no rolling fowards, for about two minutes.

    When I pulled away the three guys in the white van behind me clapped.
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