Thumper Club Forum
Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: xbruby on April 21, 2009, 10:45:27 AM
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Balls of steel and levels of confidence us fogey's can only dream of .....
Unbelievable!
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Wibble :o
Busy playing spot the location in my home town was fun though ;D 8)
Trials riders are absolutely amazing though aren't they?? They must have a letter from mum excusing them the laws of physics!
Even riding backwards defeated me (yes I tried it when I was younger... with predictable lack of success lol) and I've still never mastered the "chip shop wheelie" :-[
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Thanks for putting that up, bloody amazing :o
GC
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Love it! ;D
The backing track is good as well, without the incoherent, grunge factor! ::)
Thanks Andy.
Ta Ra, Bill.
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Awesome is the only word I can think of! ;D
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Now then - do I show this to No1 son (age 7) or not - he wants to do tricks on his bike but is not sure what they look like - but do I want him riding along railings... ;D
Mind I could not see a bell on the bike in the vid, the saddle looked a little low to me and there was no hand signals...
R
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Can you imagine what he'd be like on a GasGas? :o
GC
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Gas Gas - I think he is better off with the peds - can do more and looks great etc.
Question - how does that back gear work then, Was watching some bits and he pedals forwards and back suggesting a fixed rear, but in a couple of places he is also freewheeling.
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BTW it is all CGI ::)
R
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Impressive
ken
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some of the more flash trials cycles have the freewheel in the front chainring, with a fixed rear sprocket.
i think its something to do with less 'take-up' from the freewheel (i.e the pause between turning the pedals and the wheel turning)
bullet350
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Mmm but would that allow the riding backwards, forwards and freewheeling that he does?
R
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Have watched it a few more times and thought it may because he was changing his bike / t-shirt etc, so maybe there was a freewheel bike and a fixed wheel bike - then the fixedwheel black bike did some freewheeling like the freewheel blue on - bugger
Not in the same class but I really like this one too - seems so effortless - almost balletic and he seems to just having fun
HERE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LTVhqHAdo)
R
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..Question - how does that back gear work then, Was watching some bits and he pedals forwards and back suggesting a fixed rear, but in a couple of places he is also freewheeling...
Which bit do you mean Rog? If it's about 3min 37 then from memory it's a slight slope he's reversing down so he'll need to turn the pedals backwards to allow the wheel to turn hence the illusion of cycling backwards, everywhere else looks like a freewheel equipped bike, albeit with a magician stood on top of it! :o
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Not in the same class but I really like this one too - seems so effortless - almost balletic and he seems to just having fun
Cool! I like flatland, it's definitely the thinking rider's BMXing. And yes, he does have a good smooth style. Quite like the track too:
"Go to Japan, drink saki with the mafia, Go to Libya, hang out with gadaffier" LOL :D
GC
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Another superb video. I think I have a misspent adulthood. All this time cooped up working when I could be outside in the sunshine riding my bicycle having fun. Bah humbug.
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Which bit do you mean Rog? If it's about 3min 37 then from memory it's a slight slope he's reversing down so he'll need to turn the pedals backwards to allow the wheel to turn hence the illusion of cycling backwards, everywhere else looks like a freewheel equipped bike, albeit with a magician stood on top of it! :o
If that is the bit where he 'wheelies' backwards from a step then yes.
Have to admit to a doh! moment - forgot that to go backwards on a cycle the pedals are turned by the bike - else it stand still. Was seeing backward rotation and thinking active pedaling rather than letting the bike move - dolt!!!!
R
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;D I wouldn't worry, we all have DOH! moments.. some of us more than others! :-[
Further to the "no cylinders" theme... here's one for consideration, is this genius and long overdue, or will it flop and be no use to anyone....
http://mantasaddle.biz/index.php/a-different-feel
I'm undecided... I can see the need, and the design is elegantly simple.... but it is quite radical... hmmm dunno! :-\
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Mmmmmm
Not sure it is nto too wide at the front for 'serious' cycling but looks like it could be good for leasure. As to being a new concept I was at a conference some 8 years ago and there was a presentation on TRIS, which is a Russian developed design prompting system. What happened is an engineer who was sent to internal exile was also given pretty close to unlimited resources to investigate every patent application and award ever - from all countries. They used this to produce a set of profiles on how things develop. They came up with a set of iterative steps - I wish I had not lent the paper to an engineer who promptly dissapeared - and then use those steps to jump generations of development. IN this paper there was an example based on bike saddles and had something similar to this as a developed and on sale Russian product, they also identified that the next significant steps after fully articulated (as this is) is liquid and then gaseous. So somewhere there is a poverty striken Russian engineer with a viable liquid bike saddle, and no market in Siberia....
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. So somewhere there is a poverty striken Russian engineer with a viable liquid bike saddle, and no market in Siberia....
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.....Because its Bloody Frozen Solid !!!!!
Jethro
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. So somewhere there is a poverty striken Russian engineer with a viable liquid bike saddle, and no market in Siberia....
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.....Because its Bloody Frozen Solid !!!!!
Jethro
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
R
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Aye, could be a Rostof Tech or something else if still in Siberia! :P