Stole this one from Prolly
City Of Crank 3.5 from Blackgoldcycling on Vimeo.
The thing is, as impressive as this is, and I'm not saying I can ride any better, but there's not really a progression to the tricks attempted. Yeah, I like riding fast in traffic. So watching that gets me pumped. But watching guys do drops, jumps, and fakies gets pretty boring fast.
I guess to me, a bicycle is a tool. Right? So using a tool for a purpose it's not intended for is cool the first couple of times. Small jumps, curb endos, bunny hops and drops on a fixed gear is impressive the first couple times. Then the novalty wears off. And you want to see the progression. Larger drops, bigger jumps, better tricks. Just doing it on a fixed gear isn't enough anymore. Let's see a table top off the ramp. Let's see a 5 foot drop. I don't know, maybe better sequence of tricks. The tail spin was cool.
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Thursday 11/13/2008 | 01:36 pm
John on Thursday 11/13/2008 | 09:51 pm
I also get a little bored at seeing the same stuff over and over. Seems like there are a few guys out there pushing new stuff but for the most part its pretty cookie cutter stuff. I've always thought that track bikes look really awkward in the air.
Gunnar on Friday 11/14/2008 | 08:41 am
You have a good point about track bikes looking awkward in the air. I think it has to do with the horizontal or forward drop top tube. Personally, coming from BMX and mountain biking, my preference is for sloping top tubes for tricks and dirt. yet the purest in me like horizontal top tubes for road and track bikes. But that's just me. But getting back to the right tool for the right job, there's a reason that you don't see a push for BMX and freestyle bikes with wheels bigger than 24 inches. Aggressive mountain bikes (not cross country) and trials bikes don't go bigger that 26 inches. You have a tool for a purpose. Yeah, it takes super mad skills to use that tool in a way it wasn't intended. But after a while, you realize that maybe it's more fun to use the correct tool.
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