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John
 Post subject: Inspired Bicycles
PostPosted: Tue May 24, 2011 11:48 pm 
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Don't think I've posted this before but I've just been re-watching it and it still blows me away so take a look if you haven't seen it before.

Inspired Bicycles - Danny MacAskill, Edinburgh, April 2009 (Youtube)
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tbieter
 Post subject: Re: Inspired Bicycles
PostPosted: Wed May 25, 2011 3:50 am 
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John wrote:
Don't think I've posted this before but I've just been re-watching it and it still blows me away so take a look if you haven't seen it before.

Inspired Bicycles - Danny MacAskill, Edinburgh, April 2009 (Youtube)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk6YxhKH590
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artisticsolution
 Post subject: Re: Inspired Bicycles
PostPosted: Wed May 25, 2011 4:00 am 
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I guess you gotta be a guy...I just saw perpetual scabs.
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John
 Post subject: Re: Inspired Bicycles
PostPosted: Wed May 25, 2011 10:53 pm 
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artisticsolution wrote:
I guess you gotta be a guy...I just saw perpetual scabs.


I think my brother ended up in hospital three times as a kid because of bike stunts that went wrong :lol:
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tbieter
 Post subject: Re: Inspired Bicycles
PostPosted: Thu May 26, 2011 10:14 pm 
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John wrote:
Don't think I've posted this before but I've just been re-watching it and it still blows me away so take a look if you haven't seen it before.

Inspired Bicycles - Danny MacAskill, Edinburgh, April 2009 (Youtube)



But can he carry a dog or two? http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1349083919


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John
 Post subject: Re: Inspired Bicycles
PostPosted: Fri May 27, 2011 12:42 am 
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I'm getting an content unavailable on your link Tom.
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Dunce
 Post subject: Re: Inspired Bicycles
PostPosted: Sat May 28, 2011 6:18 pm 
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Now this is inspirational...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhxVtUFZVzk

But if you want gravity defying...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sXLXR2_1aYE

Bruises? Road rash? Pah! You haven't really crashed until you've been skewered...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=30Pk8E-zk9g
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John
 Post subject: Re: Inspired Bicycles
PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2011 11:57 pm 
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Dunce wrote:
Now this is inspirational...


What really got me about the video I posted was the unity of the man and his bicycle in a way that I hadn't really seen before. I liked the vids you posted but they didn't provoke the same sort of reaction in me. Sorry :(
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