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Title: Decent BMX
Post by: ukgimp on October 14, 2011, 04:01:09 PM
came by this on a derelict buidling forum I linger on.

Good stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShbC5yVqOdI
Title: Re: Decent BMX
Post by: buckworks on October 14, 2011, 07:08:43 PM
That is AMAZING!!!

Title: Re: Decent BMX
Post by: jetboy on October 14, 2011, 07:37:29 PM
I've seen a lot of BMX vids over the years, and that is seriously impressive by any standards.
Title: Re: Decent BMX
Post by: thesaintv12 on October 14, 2011, 07:53:54 PM
Great stuff.  I always wanted to be able to do that as a kid.  Sadly I never got past an endo.

Looking on the bright side, I can do the sequence from 2:03 to 2:11.

Title: Re: Decent BMX
Post by: DrCool on October 14, 2011, 08:01:07 PM
How does he ride a bike down a freakin cable??? I have trouble keeping a bike on a sidewalk.
Title: Re: Decent BMX
Post by: Rooftop on October 14, 2011, 09:30:44 PM
Saw that as part of the concrete circus on c4.  He's rather incredible... but it isn't bmx.
Title: Re: Decent BMX
Post by: dogboy on October 15, 2011, 12:54:29 AM
best I've seen:)
Title: Re: Decent BMX
Post by: littleman on October 15, 2011, 01:46:48 AM
Parkour on a bicycle
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Post by: Rumbas on October 16, 2011, 07:07:32 PM
Wow.
Title: Re: Decent BMX
Post by: Adam C on October 17, 2011, 08:15:51 AM
Quote from: Rooftop on October 14, 2011, 09:30:44 PM
Saw that as part of the concrete circus on c4.  He's rather incredible... but it isn't bmx.

That's right.  I think its a trials (or is it trails?) mountain bike.

I saw another one of his videos shot around Edinburgh a couple of years back.  Aparently he was an internet sensation getting hundreds of thousands of views on youtube within 24 hours with his first homemade movie.  That got a load of sponsors interested and things have moved on from there
Title: Re: Decent BMX
Post by: Rooftop on October 17, 2011, 08:18:50 AM
His back story is good as well. he grew up on the isle of Skye, not exactly a hot bed of urban sports... or urban anything.  Just bored kid with a bike and the determination to keep falling off it!  He ended up making what looked a bit like one of those go ape places in his back garden - old pallets up trees and all sorts. That is where he practised and practised.

Quite incredible to watch isn't he?  He has a few vids on YT if people want more.
Title: Re: Decent BMX
Post by: grnidone on October 20, 2011, 04:41:44 PM
OK...this is what i don' t understand.  He pedals/ jumps across the tops of the train and then has to walk his bike up the stairs and across the dirt filled barn area? 
Feh.  I am unimpressed.

;)