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SpecialK wrote:You know it's just practice...

It's the Juniors European Championships acta...oh, I see what you mean.

Jinkies!

Mann! jene jungen Damen können ihr Fahrrad sure fahren! und sie ihn in solchen festen Trikotanzügen, wie können tun sie in ihnen so flink sein?!

and, as an homage to thetranslation party back into english:

Man! those young ladies can drive its bicycle sure! and it in such firm leotard suits, how they can do in them to be so speedy?

Practice for what? What the fuck "sport" is that? Is there a clown car competition as well?

A lot of sports have a rhythmic/dance version that emphasizes performance in the theatrical sense but doesn't go all-out on the athleticism. Figure skating vs Ice dancing, downhill skiing vs freestyle, rhythmic gymnastics, and synchronized swimming are all examples. In our US world of cycling, BMX freestyle ('flatland') has been around for some time, and there is a recent trend to migrate BMX type riding to larger fixed-gear bicycles, popular among that subset of current young people loosely described as hipsters. What's funny about this video is the idea that, somewhere in Brooklyn, a wealthy, overeducated young man with a mustache and tight jeans is trying to perform tricks, badly, and thinking that he is on the cutting edge, when in fact there are girls in europe in un-ironic leotards who can do tricks he will never dream of. I file it under "there is nothing new under the sun."

I always appreciate the arts of control and balance. Maybe it stems from my years as a climber. I enjoy seeing control.

I also enjoy muscular young German girls in tight clothing.

someone please show to these girls how to sit properly on a bike.

tsssssssss... girls....

xtian wrote:someone please show to these girls how to sit properly on a bike.

tsssssssss... girls....

..And half the time they're going backwards for Christ's sake! Typical...

I was about to make a demeaning joke about this being the equivalent of synchronized swimming, except for people who couldn't afford to get into the pool. However, they then stood on the handlebars. Holy fuck who can do that for shits and giggles?

...and I have problems sitting in a static folding chair without falling over...man do I feel inadequate as a human being!

That's some serious balance.

That's so fucking 1980's.


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...and here's the real thing. This was so cool when I was a kid, you'd get laughed off pulling those tricks these days.<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Tt0foYesgTk&hl ... ram><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Tt0foYesgTk&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> By the way I meant we could all do this with practise, those girls have clearly put theirs in already.

oh.. i knew what you meant. I just seized the opportunity to post some gratuitous '80s goodness.

BUT.. your post inspired me to go look on youtube for some recent flatland.. and this guy is freaking ridiculous.

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Do they sell these trickbikes in six-packs or does he just respray his frame a lot?

Ridiculous skills. I like the bit where he stands the bike on the front wheel.

In a former life, I was friends with a kid that was sponsored by Standard bykes and he just had a shitload of bikes laying around.

I have no idea what it's called.. but i loved that trick in the last 30 seconds where he kick flips the front wheel twice. It made me want to put the long axles and pegs back on my bully and fail miserably at trying to learn this stuff.

Pattio wrote:What's funny about this video is the idea that, somewhere in Brooklyn, a wealthy, overeducated young man with a mustache and tight jeans is trying to perform tricks, badly, and thinking that he is on the cutting edge, when in fact there are girls in europe in un-ironic leotards who can do tricks he will never dream of. I file it under "there is nothing new under the sun."

Sooner or later one of them might, might realize why brake calipers exist. Until that point, they will forever be schooled by men and women from 20+ years previous.

Still waiting for someone to "discover" the Gyro Detangler for their "mad bar spins" (descendant of the old ACS rotor for you folks who will remember)