How to destroy your tyres, and almost get yourself killed

notsoblue
notsoblue Posts: 5,756
edited August 2011 in Commuting chat
http://vimeo.com/24636336

I don't get it... I mean, great production values and everything, but this must be a terrifying experience. Watching them do skids while slowly descending these hills makes me cringe, surely it would just take a blowout for them to totally lose control? Not to mention that they must get through a set of tyres for every descent. Fixies are a great idea for city riding, but this seems like madness.

Lovely countryside though...
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  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    Nice tune.
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  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    is that tune Jose Gonazales...? Sounds like it.

    could those guys have looked any more cool, dude? Totally gnarly.
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  • zenistar
    zenistar Posts: 75
    A fun way to get rid of old tires??

    Have to admit, not sure i would have the balls to do that while clipped in.
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  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    clarkey cat wrote:
    is that tune Jose Gonazales...? Sounds like it.

    could those guys have looked any more cool, dude? Totally gnarly.

    Yes it is track's called "Killing for Love" - Says so on the page btw.

    Must get some of his stuff...... Didn't he do a kylie cover a while ago?
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  • Sewinman
    Sewinman Posts: 2,131
    Is it just me, or do they all look like complete bell-pieces...?
  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    Apparently so.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucOjx01zwrE
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  • jamesco
    jamesco Posts: 687
    Bike Snob NYC nails it, as usual: http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2011/08/apocalypse-now-all-you-haters-dis-my.html

    Tw@ts, IMHO. Jose Gonzalez is great - saw him at the Barbican with a full orchestra.
  • pitchshifter
    pitchshifter Posts: 1,476
    Jose Gonzales I believe if your interested.

    Good production. Key ingredients for success, yes it looks cool, nice bianchi and there is an attractive female riding a bike..


    Changing the rear tyre every mile though could get boring though..
  • meanredspider
    meanredspider Posts: 12,337
    pitchshifter wrote:
    Changing the rear tyre every mile though could get boring though..

    I don't know about the tyre changing getting boring - I was bored of watching after 30s....
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  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    Sketchley - yes I saw him at Somerset House a few years back and he played 'hand on my heart' and it was just like so beautiful man, I was there, with my kinda cool checked shirt on and a little tache and my fit little girlfriend who was sexy in a kind of 'counter-culture' kind of way and I just had a look of serene smugness all over my face and I rode my fixie there - with aerospokes no less and I was so cool I was aching, down there, and I had to go and relieve myself all over my saddle: which I did, but in a really cool alouf way.
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  • Gussio
    Gussio Posts: 2,452
    Skillz.
  • Jim Will Fixie It
    Jim Will Fixie It Posts: 72
    That track stand was pretty damn neat...
  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    jamesco wrote:
    Bike Snob NYC nails it, as usual: http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2011/08/apocalypse-now-all-you-haters-dis-my.html

    Tw@ts, IMHO. Jose Gonzalez is great - saw him at the Barbican with a full orchestra.

    Oops yes, *cite*.

    Love the area, looks like the Pyrenees?
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Sewinman wrote:
    Is it just me, or do they all look like complete bell-pieces...?

    Yep

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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    See, if they'd climbed up the hill first, they might have earned that descent... dissapointing
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  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    Clever Pun wrote:
    See, if they'd climbed up the hill first, they might have earned that descent... dissapointing

    This has been posted before in commuting chat
    http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=6404
  • estampida
    estampida Posts: 1,008
    That syncro bit 2 mins in is really really ghay

    http://fagsonfixies.com/
  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    Looks like fun to me - anyone here remember fun ?
  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    Jay dubbleU wrote:
    Looks like fun to me - anyone here remember fun ?
    Absolutely, I think its a pretty fun video, I just think I'd cringe less if they had brakes!
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  • saintdracula
    saintdracula Posts: 232
    I think their bike handling skills would put a lot of people here to shame! Some call it madness - but they clearly are capable of handling their bikes! What would you call a 60mph descent in the Vuelta, I wonder?

    For myself, I found the video really enjoyable - a first rate production. It's just people having fun on bikes, really.

    I'm surprised by how the comments here have generally been quite positive, given the degree to which cynicism seems to pervade this forum!
  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    saintdracula wrote:
    What would you call a 60mph descent in the Vuelta, I wonder?

    Thing is, the descents here are pretty slow principly because they don't have proper brakes :)
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  • nation
    nation Posts: 609
    Precisely. If they had brakes they could actually get some speed up instead of tentatively wobbling into the bends.
  • jamesco
    jamesco Posts: 687
    nation wrote:
    Precisely. If they had brakes they could actually get some speed up instead of tentatively wobbling into the bends.
    Exactly, they could go fast and feel the wind in their carefully dishevelled hair, but they're choosing to do it the hard and no-fun way while pretending that that's something cool.

    I work in Shoreditch/Hoxton, so the affectations of pretentious trust-fund-hipsters don't have any novelty, hence my grumpiness ;)
  • t4tomo
    t4tomo Posts: 2,643
    Irresponsible, weaving all over the raod, no helmets, no brakes and changing tyres every 5 minutes. Wannbe cool guys, in reality muppets.
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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    I was thinking about this the other day.

    On my fixed bike I do leg brake a lot now, in fact the game is to do the commute without touching the brake lever. Leg braking is pretty powerful, but the instant that the back wheel locks and starts to skid then the braking effect is almost completely nullified.

    Ergo skids look cool (well, c'mon, you know they do) but don't actually have any significant braking effect. And shag your tyires (which is why they are especially popular in Glasgow :) )
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  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    SimonAH wrote:
    (which is why they are especially popular in Glasgow :) )
    :lol:
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  • jzed
    jzed Posts: 2,926
    jimmypippa wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:
    See, if they'd climbed up the hill first, they might have earned that descent... dissapointing

    This has been posted before in commuting chat

    Ah its Stelvio pass, thats why I had a fruitless search for Galibier. Looks some descent, I fancy some of that.
  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    No brakes? Pah! What about no hands?
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  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    JonGinge wrote:
    No brakes? Pah! What about no hands?
    http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/t ... t-no-hands

    Now thats just silly :wink:
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,381
    JonGinge wrote:
    No brakes? Pah! What about no hands?
    http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/t ... t-no-hands

    I can barely watch that. AAA+ fur-lined ocean-going nut job.
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