Girl on a bicycle

"TchmilFan" (tchmilfan) 09/02/2015 at 15:38 • Filed to: None

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Remember how proud you were when you first popped a wheelie, or did a one-handed track stand?

The video is about 5 minutes long. It may strike you as boring - it is, I suppose. It’s just one woman, at a competition, in a non-descript sports hall, doing her thing. But stick with it to get the full measure of the skill involved.

Imagine doing just one of the simpler tricks. Now, imagine doing a fluid 5 minutes... Maybe throw in reverse, vertical, one-handed wheelie to break it up a bit?

HammerheadFistpunch > TchmilFan 09/02/2015 at 15:41

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TchmilFan > HammerheadFistpunch 09/02/2015 at 15:43

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Oh I am sooo glad I never watched that, or BMX Bandits, or Premium Rush, or ET, er no wait...

HammerheadFistpunch > TchmilFan 09/02/2015 at 15:44

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You should never be glad to have not seen rad.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > TchmilFan 09/02/2015 at 15:47

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2 seconds in I was like, “The fuck am I watching.”

5 Seconds I was like, “It doesn’t hurt her chances of me watching this, because she is an attractive non-American female.” (i struggle with defeating my own chauvinism, daily)

6 seconds I was like, “holy fuck, bicycle gymnastics is a thing. this is legit crazy.”

Near the end i though of an old meme, “still a better love story than twilight.”

petebmwm > TchmilFan 09/02/2015 at 15:47

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61hp > TchmilFan 09/02/2015 at 15:54

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If one is good, two must be better

TchmilFan > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet 09/02/2015 at 15:55

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There’s pairs too.

RallyWrench > TchmilFan 09/02/2015 at 16:00

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That’s incredible. If she and Danny MacAskill got together and had a kid, they may as well just stop having bike contests and forward all the medals to them.

RallyWrench > HammerheadFistpunch 09/02/2015 at 16:01

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Oh, that takes me back.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > RallyWrench 09/02/2015 at 16:06

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This.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > TchmilFan 09/02/2015 at 16:09

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And here I am struggling to do a wheelie. To make myself feel a little better, that bike doesn’t have a ratcheting hub, which should help balance. Still...

that girl is in-freaking-credible

TchmilFan > 61hp 09/02/2015 at 16:13

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It is indeed, I toyed with the idea, but I thought this one would play better to the Jalop demographic.

61hp > TchmilFan 09/02/2015 at 16:16

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Makes sense. We used to to watch the pairs one in meetings at one of my old jobs while we waited for people to arrive, always makes me smile at how amazing and ridiculous it is.