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 Saturday, April 25, 2009

Parkour On A Bicycle

By Paul Hsieh @ 8:04 AM

I had no idea that some of these stunts were physically possible:



(Via TreyPeden and Kottke.)

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Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 9:59:30 mst
Comment ID: #1
Name: Benpercent
E-mail: Benpercent(at)yahoo.com
URL: http://benpercent.blogspot.com

The only thing that went through my mind was how efficient their traveling times must be.

Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 10:08:43 mst
Comment ID: #2
Name: Diana Hsieh
E-mail: diana(at)dianahsieh.com
URL: http://www.dianahsieh.com/blog

I love the fact that some humans are crazy-ambitious and crazy-talented enough to do that. Amazing.

Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 12:04:37 mst
Comment ID: #3
Name: C Andrew
E-mail: ca4papen(at)mindspring.com

I understand that there is (or was) a sporting event out there called "trials" where they do the same kind of thing, in a natural setting, with motorcycles. A technician I worked with back in the 80's was a semiprofessional motocross rider. HE described them as crazy. This from a guy who suffered a partial avulsion of his right thumb (it peeled back and tore the attached muscle halfway up the forearm) from a close encounter with a pine tree during a motocross event. And previously had put both handlebars of his cycle through his flack jacket and into his abdomen. They had to resect his small intestine.

Apparently they would designate the trial route by posts and strings with the width of the route being about 6 inches. So you would have to traverse a log over a stream, go up the boulders of a glacial moraine, get over a trailer sized monolith, etc., all while staying inbounds, not touching a foot down and staying with the required time limit. I haven't seen any videos and haven't heard anything about the sport since "Skip" told me about it. He thought they were nuts. I thought he was nuts. So I guess that means, from my perspective, that the time trialers were (nuts(E2)).

Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 15:03:42 mst
Comment ID: #4
Name: Jeff Montgomery
E-mail: jamontgom(at)hotmail.com
URL: http://funwithgravity.blogspot.com/

Cool! My faves are at 2:50 and 3:15.

Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 21:53:04 mst
Comment ID: #5
Name: Wayne

Good thing he wore helmet. Otherwise riding a bike is dangerous.

Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 19:01:25 mst
Comment ID: #6
Name: Jim May
E-mail: seerak(at)gmail.com

I'm afraid to see the videos of the *failed* stunts.

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