| We don't know whether to laugh or cry, but here's something weird from Cardiff.—Ed. |
Straight off the hills into the streets of Cardiff.
After following the staggering growth of the city
#BikeLife movement over the past five years, Ajay and I headed into Cardiff to meet the top boys running the scene. These guys ride day in, day out, dedicating their lives to the back wheel. They split public opinion, however, with them promoting peace and riding bikes over violence and knives through Instagram and hashtags it's becoming more and more difficult for people to focus on the negative side of pedalling.
#LETSAVEW #CardiffBikeLife
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQGLNPJ9VCE
That said, f% the helmet police, let people ride however they want. Plus, telling people who don't want to wear one probably just makes them resist it more. One day they'll have a career and maybe a family and will decide it's worth it, but badgering is almost never convincing (and keep in mind, I fundamentally agree that it would be a good idea to wear one)
(Old man rant over)
PS I wish I could wheelie half as well as these guys.
The Wheely Kings?
Cheers
Wales. Cardiff is in Wales, not England.
I'm sure it's a great project with many success stories but this isn't content PinkBike needs to feature or witness.
Just a bunch of talented yobz having good times and creating neat content. By the way, smoking weed is quite widespread nowadays and this is one of the first times PB opens the sewer to show bikers in this aspect. I´m pretty sure there´s a lot more at every level I wonder if there´s anybody willing to face it. Interviews with supporters and detractors, surveys or timed laps.
Having grown up in gang land moss side, with guns, drugs and violence being as common as sliced bread it is a f*cking miracle that I am where I am now. ANYTHING that detracts people in deprived inner city communities from the daily shit show that is their life is something we should be actively supporting. Have you ever considered that they might not be able to afford helmets? Or that the things they were smoking look pretty damn like a cigar and a cigarette? Or that they did nothing illegal, did not endanger anyone, and didn't actually mock security people? Or maybe even if they did, that they might have done it because those same people probably chase and beat their asses pretty regularly? Just because something does not fit your privileged ideal of what people should be aspiring to doesn't invalidate it, it just highlights your privilege. If these kids are not stabbing each other, they're doing a damn sight better than a lot of people in their situations and they should be praised. All power to them.
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y'all a bunch of losers who have too much money for fancy bikes and shit skills.
The difference is that having worked my nuts off and seen the wider world, I get to see it from many perspectives rather your narrow minded 'Im so hard done by' one.
I have learnt the hard way. I know what gets respect. Dont come waving your middle class brush at me. The differance between us is that I embrace everything for what it is and the effort in it. You are just being narrow minded and that annoys those of us that put the graft in.
You clearly failed to read my comment as it reflects their skills and effort, I just feel it came across badly. The point here is that it was a film so it was DELIBERATELY produced to be like that - hence my last sentence. Oh and if they werent 'doing it for me', why did they make a vid and stick it on Pinkbike, a worldwide site?
And by the way, I know exactly what Im talking about. I would be very surprised if you or they have seen or can imagine the suffering, misery and hardship I have seen.
My top tip to you matey is never make assumptions.
An we made our lives better by staying out of trouble an working hard.
Not acting like chavs an doin wheelies around multi storey car parks.........
Just because they haven't bought a 6k (it was £500 if the wife asks) bike that they'll never get the brakes warm on.
f*ck sake it's about doing what you love with your mates give them a break
Nojzilla, you're a Nob Zilla. LOL (made myself laugh, that's all that matters)
Whats that you where chatting about stereotypes???
Its not new. We used to do that 15-20 years ago around another unamed city (on our 1x hardtails).
BMX bandits and skaters dont wear lids so in that respect its not much differant.
It challanges our perceptions of our sport but is that a bad thing - even if all I could think of was a bit of Goldie Looking Chain.
Oh and top tip to non Brits. England is an actual Country. Wales is an actual Country. So is Scotland and Northern Ireland. Calling Wales England is like calling Canadians Mexican.
Also showing how bikes are fun in different ways to different people?
PB commenters: "bikes are too expensive!" then "oh no kids are having fun riding in an urban setting on cheap bikes" (ok that intense ain't cheap lol)
What I'm trying to say is that there seems to be a lot of middle class f*ckwits on here ????????
Bikes are about having fun no matter how you choose to ride them
Just because they don't have all the gear and a 6k (it was £500 if th wife asks) bike that they can't ride or will ever get the brakes warm on.
Give them a break it's about doing what you love with your mates.
#WHATONEARTHISLETSAVEW
Next time will open with a comprehensive list
Lighting up a joint in the middle of town, brilliant example to set, true Samaritans. #bellend
Who's causing more trouble, these lads or the c*nt who'll be walking around town with a can of stella after darkness starting on random passers by?
#hashtagsaregash
And I have Welsh connections. Don't know if that's relevant.
Solid privileged middle class response to this video. Bro, they don't care about your opinion, or anyone else's on here for that matter. You think they're doing this for you?? They're doing this because it gives them some self esteem and it distracts them from the crap they have to put up with every single day, including being told how to be better at being themselves by privileged fools like you. Did you grow up in a gang land where you're constantly pressured to assert your masculinity by taking down others in your community? If so, did you have the balls to stand up to that pressure and say no, and find something else to throw yourself into instead? If no to any of these questions then you haven't got a clue what you're talking about. These lads are trying to build a better life for themselves, and if you can't see the value in that then it shows how ignorant your life really is.
Also, how do you know it is a joint? Pause the video and look, one is clearly a cigarette, the other is a cigar or a maaaasive blunt, you can't tell. Did you never drunk under age? What's the difference? Hypocrite.
Too far? Maybe, but I'm sick of knob heads jumping to conclusions like this, I've had to put up with it for too long and THAT is too far. If you don't like my comment check your own behaviour first, your ignorance and eagerness to jump to conclusions is no better. Haste mongers like you got the nazis in power.
He'll race you if you fancy it ?
This is the pedal version of the motorcycle "Bikelife" movement which is by and large a bunch of criminal scrotes on stolen mopeds and MX bikes doing wheelies in and around US and UK cities and they tell the media that they're not causing issues or trouble because they're not out fighting and doing drugs... Which we all know is absolute horseshit, they're doing both of those things but all the while on the back wheel of a stolen bike.
Don't give this sub-human scum the time of day. It's not something the actual mountain bike community wants to be associated with.
Class discrimination still alive and well in England!
When @haroman666 says "sub-human scum" he probably doesn't really mean it. like when you call someone SOB, or piece of shit, you don't mean it literally, it's just an insult. Making this about social class is ridiculous.
Everybody has respect for people doing crazy stunts on a motorbike or on a mtb, a skateboard or whatever ; but only if these people are not deliberately putting people s life at risk just to have fun.
More good riders will start younger from populations that wouldn't traditionally have any interest in mountainbikes (or bmx or MX or whatever) thanks to this bikelife.
This is "cool". Enduro and dh is not "cool", especially to people who won't be able to afford it until later.
I bet these guys will get to the trail centers when wheelies get boring.