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Tall frame. Would you be game?

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StyrbjornSterki said:
If he really wanted to impress me, he should have completed the turn-around at the end of the Venice beach pier. Without dabbing.




Seriously, that was the ballziest slo ride I ever saw on a bicicleta.

TRUE! I was WAITING for him to go over the side and take the dive! Awwgh!

You know, going through all those intersections - he had no choice - he had to keep moving. You can see he had a coterie of regular cyclists who assisted in intersection traffic control - good for them, lucky for him.
 
Waaay back in the day I used to make and ride tall bikes. Never anything that tall. No way.

Once I went over the bars. It was a slow-motion launch so I had time to swing my feet up and over the bars and more or less run out of it. I got on the thing kind of like getting on a horse. But, not as tall as that. No way.

It was geeky fun, but certainly not popular. It seems like bikes are much more popular now judging by all the people riding.
 
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I think that bike might be something to work up to. Start on a normal (double stacked frame) tall bike and build from there.

Definitely need about 4 'domestiques' on normal bikes as they use here.


I reckon Sagan would give it a blast.:cool:


Great video, thanks for sharing :)
 
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I thought no way. then I thought this guy is a moron or worse. Overhead wiring that might hurt him. general confusion he causes. inability to stop or yield, I thought the police should arrest him but for what I am not sure. Just wrong on an open road.:mad: