Born to bike?

Yeah, I think so. Wow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj6ho1-G6tw&feature=player_embedded

Holy E36 M3!!!

GOD I just love how street/trials/flat is all merging into one style!!!

I picked up a Push BMX dvd at the LBS a few weeks ago, and there's guys doing similar stuff on 20" BMX/street bikes now...plus it has a cool "Day in the Life" of Brian Blyther too.

Incredible athlete

Do you guys remember the videos of guys doing this on "free-ride" bikes? Ian Bender and all them were in them. I'll have to find them tonite. There's some real nutjobs out there.

Including the guy that does downhill mounting unicycling.

The guy's incredible.

But the evil darkside of me wants to see a bloopers video

OK, so let me get this straight. There is no suspension or rear brake on the bike. He's absorbing the impact of those falls and jumps with his legs 100%. He can do a backflip...on a bike. I can't even comprehend the skill that video requires. Amazing.

And I love his camper.

it has a rear brake, it's a hydraulic rim brake. the sort of torque that trials riding produces makes a rear disk brake a bad idea because that much torque would literally rip the brake caliper off the frame. a rim brake can put the same amount of stopping power on the wheel, more than likely has better holding power, and you don't have the radius of the wheel acting as a lever to multiply the stress on the frame.

but yes, there's no suspension at all on those, other than the squish of the tires. the suspension would absorb some of your energy as you try to pop the bike around. it's a LOT easier to bunnyhop a hardtail dirt jump bike than it is to bunnyhop Sam Hill's Specialized Demo8 downhill sled because on a hardtail, all your effort goes into moving the bike, none of it goes to compressing the suspension.

legs are the best shock absorbers in the world, they are designed precisely to absorb impacts like that. doing that sort of stuff on a bike isn't terribly difficult, it just takes years of practice and really really really really good balance. and when I say years of practice, I pretty much mean pushing the envelope of what you can do on 2 wheels since you're old enough to ride a bicycle

Slyp_Dawg wrote: doing that sort of stuff on a bike isn't terribly difficult

Uh, yeah, OK...

Awesome .

Another cool video, (admittedly not quite as impressive), is this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z1fSpZNXhU (Stylin' moves on a full-carbon roadie.)

doc_speeder wrote:

Slyp_Dawg wrote: doing that sort of stuff on a bike isn't terribly difficult

Uh, yeah, OK...

I just cut myself pretty badly emptying my dishwasher and there was not a single 14' backflip in the program.

doc_speeder wrote:

Slyp_Dawg wrote: doing that sort of stuff on a bike isn't terribly difficult

Uh, yeah, OK...

like I said, it's not terribly hard, you just have to know exactly what you are doing and you have to either have a death wish and a damn good life insurance policy, or you have to have been developing your skills on a bike all your life

really cool stuff..

Wow.

Parkour+bicycle. Gotta love it.

That's mindblowing.

And I thought the skateboard guys were cool. That rocks! Makes me wish I was 20 again..

Whenever I watch stuff like that, I try to figure out how 32'/sec/sec doesn't apply to those guys.