Video: Team Pilo at Bike Park Hermon Israel
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Sahar Kaminsky
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"You never really know a man until you understand things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1960
What about this: Officer shoots a cyclist in the face!
www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/jan/19/tp-officer-shoots-man-in-the-face
And I apologize for getting a little worked up and hypocritically commenting on politics, just i get fed up when people on any side of an argument make statements based on emotion and propaganda instead of well researched and objective study. there are other places where you can argue all you like, lets keep our arguments here to wheelsize, suspension, and brand loyalty.
I'm sorry we got into this.
but, you cant judge us until you live with terror, next door.
and to all you peace fighters,
I really think that peace is the way for all religions.
but if you really fight for peace, go and help the people in Syria.
I'm sure you did not get to read anywhere that Israel sending aid to the people of Syria.
And delivers electricity and free water and food for the Palestinians. Even that in return they shoot at us ...
Live your life.
And if you're really bored. Get out and ride. And do not mess with things you do not understand...
All the haters on here (from both sides), you are contributing to perpetuating the problem much in the same way as the terrorist leaders impregnating young Arab kids with their anti-Israel/anti-West doctrine are. Think about it.
Now go ride your bikes. People who ride bikes don't start wars.
so much fun to watch it every time!
thank you sahar and pilo for the opportunity to ride for the film.
Eldad.
and you guys who don't want to talk about politics and enjoy about riding and vidoes from israel... here is another one-
www.pinkbike.com/video/266685
Mais si il y a un bike park tout va bien !
Actually "mountain" comes from "montagne" and "bike" (abbreviation of bicycle) comes from "bicyclette", so without the French there would be no "mountain biking" - literally, they pretty much invented it! You wouldn't even be able to change gears, if they didn't invent the "dérailleur"...
Vive La France!
After all, understanding where we come from is understanding who we are.
So stop argueing and go out side and ride you bike. Because its the best thing ever. I've just been out on my bike it's -1 (not quite -9) and 5 foot deep in places and I still had fun!!!!!!!!!!' so stop complaining about life because it's clearly not as bad as your making out because you've got a bike!!!!!!!!!
@ Jackdirt and rbeach - get over the fact that ENGLAND, the epicentre of injustice and oppression (just ask the Irish, Scottish, Chinese, Canadians, Argentinians (falklands), etc.) for over a century is now just a smouldering ash pile of the former empire. They just crapped all over the world, then took off and left the mess for someone else to clean up.
@ daniel1928 - careful speaking about stolen land, just check with the aborigines about who stole their land!
if this isn't evil it's certainly not good faith
@ItamarLevy i understand Nethanyahu does not represent the people who live in the country, i may well be Brainwashed but by who. Media? owned mostly by Jews, are you saying this is why? Internet well Youtube and Google take down most things that are Against Jews, true or not! so who is Brainwashing me! Brainwash: Make (someone) adopt radically different beliefs by using systematic and often forcible pressure..... hmmm who in Europe is pushing for open boarders (which tbf i dont really disapprove as i beleive people should be able to go and live where they want!). in Israel Jewish men, women, gays are free your correct but if your a Palestinian, north African or black you will be segregated, imprisoned or even shot! Gaza is the biggest open air concentration camp that ever existed! (Israel control EVERYTHING that goes into Gaza) these are not myths that the Guardian have created i have many peers that have protested in Israel for Palestine, even some that were unarmed in international waters, heading for Gaza bringing Aid that were shot at by Israelis.... so stick to your racist state of Israel! where a black man cant marry a Jew without great difficulty or cannot convert... your race/religion is Racist!!! FREE PALESTINE!@!@!@! and actually it was the British government (that had no right!) that gave settlers permission to settle in Palestine. before then Jews, Muslims and Arabs lived along side each other in Peace!!!
which is utter rubbish, and all the rest of your proven "facts". Trolling is not worth my comments.
Israel haters you don't have to blame this riders for what Israel do. They're not responsible for it, and PB is not the right place !
Then if you want to fight Israel, just go there... And stop f*cking here !
You have to accept that Israel is not just Jews. When will Israel treat the rest of its population as equal citizens?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel
where do you get your education from? you're so blind that it makes me laugh.
go strap a bomb to your chest and explode in some muslim school.
what can we expect from a hatred schooled boy.
I will say this tho , a lot of countries better thank the USA otherwise they wouldnt be shit . Good day now !
And now to the less sexy political section (do skip this if you're here just for biking, unfortunately some intelligent keyboard protesters thought this was a good spot to wage their ignorant war against Israel)
Let's start with a short history lesson shall we. At 1947 the UN proposed to both Jews and Arabs to form two separate states in the land of Israel. One side immediately accepted, and wanted to live peacefully side-by-side with the other which in return immediately started war (we call it out "Independence War"). Guess which side is which? At that time btw, the Arabs were suggested a territory far larger than they will ever get under any future settlement.
Since then, Israel had faced 7 wars plus about 20 years of Intifada (that's another name for simply put - war in which the targets are civilians) (b.t.w, have you guys ever been in one? had your fathers ever had to leave home to war, my assumption is that for most of the so-called activists here the answer is no, more about it in a minuet).
Were we always as bad as some say we are? Let me tell you one thing, I do not know if there's any other nation in the world which could remain half as human as we are will enduring what we endure. Just a small personal example, a few months ago, while Hamas militants targeted Tel-Aviv (where I live) with rockets, during a missile attack running to our shelter I had to explain my 3 year old son what's happening, so I told him that there's a fire and Fireman Sam is on the way. The sad thing is, that my parents had probably told me such stories and their parents told them too. (Though I'm not sure they had known Fireman Sam back then).
We as a nation had probably made many many mistakes throughout history, maybe we could have done things in other ways too. But this is not a one side story and the Palestinians are way far from being saints. They and the entire Arab world around us had been trying to vanish us systematically for more than 60 years.
So yeh:
We block ships from reaching Gaza - We don't want to make life easy for those that fire missiles on us. (we deliver any aid on them though, not that there anything to deliver, the ships a loaded with nothing but propaganda)
We built a fence between the west bank and ourselves - guess what, buses miraculously stopped exploding on us ever since.
We take down the head of a terrorist from time to time, hack, the US and other Nato parties do it about a thousand times more than us, and that's while fighting 10,000 miles from home.
And most importantly, we ride DH, and love it.
So to all those that red so far, thank you, and for those that couldn't resist attacking Israel I say: "Try walking in my (our) shoes" before you spread your "just-graduated-school-nothing-to-do-no-worries-why-not-join-a-peace-camp-and-oh-those-obnoxious-Israelis-I-hate-them" Tora.
Damn I need a good ride...
We have also the Menara, though he did not bike park but have
funicular railway, is also a great target to Down Hill
You say the media brainwashes people into believing lies, yet its easier to lie on websites like the bollox you read.
These are the same websites that say the moon landing was a hoax and obama is an alien...............go figure!
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=552099341469487&set=a.220210174658407.63897.202904329722325&type=1&theater
I enjoyed every moment
yes you can rent a car and\or bike in TelAviv.
there are some great places to ride near the beach, or on the mountains.
here is some riding from Israel too:
www.pinkbike.com/video/189530
you can shove your name into your ass
"saruti" is "full of shit" in romanian? :-)
haaaa
glad its not my real name :-)
Set Palestine free, don't behave as nazists did.
People in Palestine can't be helped by ONG because Israel people don't allow it.
I suggest you (israelians) to be more tolerant and permissive, people are the same with all the same rules and rights.
there's people that works 24/7 at summer for us to have place to ride, and if this is the treatment they getting for maybe they should stop "working" for us.