How to destroy your tyres, and almost get yourself killed
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jamesco wrote:Bike Snob NYC nails it, as usual: http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2011/08/apocalypse-now-all-you-haters-dis-my.html
'I'm not one for fawning over bicycles, but I do believe that our bikes communicate with us, and what this bike is saying is, "You're an idiot."'
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notsoblue wrote: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
If they took their feet off the pedals it could get interesting though, possibly even epicly epic - never really seen the draw of the hipster fixie thing, if half the crap flatland bmx tricks they pull were performed by a kid on a bmx you wouldn't look twice, but if it's a grown man doing poxy skids & barspins on a track bike in tight jeans suddenly it's cool, sorry - epic skillz, not for me - for real mentalists, the other vid of the no-handed descent is a good representation!
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JonGinge wrote:No brakes? Pah! What about no hands?
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/t ... t-no-hands
If he'd been pulling a wheelie at the same time THEN I'd have been impressed....
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JonGinge wrote:No brakes? Pah! What about no hands?
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/t ... t-no-hands
WTF?! How is he slowing down?!0 -
it looks insane to me but the poor deluded fools are obviously enjoying it. I can't help feeling sorry for the car drivers though; it must look terrifying to be sharing a mountain road with what must look like crashing cyclists......0
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notsoblue wrote:JonGinge wrote:No brakes? Pah! What about no hands?
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/t ... t-no-hands
WTF?! How is he slowing down?!
Quite clever - he rides slightly outward and against the camber on the bends which slows him - amazing bike control though0 -
Confusedboy wrote:it looks insane to me but the poor deluded fools are obviously enjoying it. I can't help feeling sorry for the car drivers though; it must look terrifying to be sharing a mountain road with what must look like crashing cyclists......
Yeah, might scratch their paint 0 -
Jay dubbleU wrote:notsoblue wrote:JonGinge wrote:No brakes? Pah! What about no hands?
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/t ... t-no-hands
WTF?! How is he slowing down?!
Quite clever - he rides slightly outward and against the camber on the bends which slows him - amazing bike control though
Hah no, he's using the back of his shoe quite visibly at times. Good work though.Le Cannon [98 Cannondale M400] [FCN: 8]
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Yes he is, I wonder if that's why they are called brake shoes.MonkeyMonster wrote:Jay dubbleU wrote:notsoblue wrote:JonGinge wrote:No brakes? Pah! What about no hands?
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/t ... t-no-hands
WTF?! How is he slowing down?!
Quite clever - he rides slightly outward and against the camber on the bends which slows him - amazing bike control though
Hah no, he's using the back of his shoe quite visibly at times. Good work though.0 -
looks like they had fun, but frankly on open roads is not on.
Seems a waste of a nice down hill to have to slip slide slowly down.0
