Video: Do You Even Klunk Bro?

Nov 7, 2014
by Transition Bikes  
Klunkers

by KHaynes
Views: 95,712    Faves: 264    Comments: 15


Our boy Carl Hulick is back at it with some buddies taking klunking to yet another level. Classic SoCal technical downhilling, flowy dirt jumps and power slides create one of the best klunker edits we have seen. These guys don't back down from anything just because they are on Klunkers

If you want to be part of the Klunker movement, you need one of these.

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171 Comments

  • 278 0
 Sir, do you have a permit to ride with those guns?
  • 36 4
 He's on his way to the gun show
  • 53 2
 You guys know where the nearest vet is? Because those pythons are SICK!
  • 16 139
flag Obijebacgodine (Nov 7, 2014 at 7:33) (Below Threshold)
 Having boobs because you're fat doesn't count, if you know what I mean
  • 24 0
 klunkin ain't easy
  • 9 1
 suns out guns out Wink
  • 18 8
 Klunkers gonna klunk, haters gonna hate
  • 65 1
 potatoes gonna potate
  • 10 0
 I think those guns are out regardless of where the sun is.
  • 10 0
 That poor bike...
  • 2 0
 have you bought your tickets?..........to the gun show!!!!!
  • 11 15
flag bigburd (Nov 8, 2014 at 2:49) (Below Threshold)
 Go and have wank over his arms guys ... jesus
  • 4 0
 Migrants gon Migrate
  • 7 2
 bigburd doesn't workout....
  • 4 4
 And you do ? the only guns I see in your profile pic are the ones you make with your hands Razz
  • 2 1
 Thats not even me haha
  • 3 0
 if i ride a klunker can i have those arms?
  • 5 1
 Good to see pinkbike isn't as sexist as I thought and is just as happy to tell a bloke he looks alright Wink
  • 15 0
 Did someone say my name?
  • 2 0
 That was a rad video. Big man can klunk!
  • 119 2
 THAT GUY IS A F*@KING TANK
  • 24 0
 It's a bear riding a bike! Crushing it!
  • 42 1
 When did Kyle Strait get a Klunker?
  • 9 0
 I think he actually played football for UCLA or at least did.
  • 2 0
 @drummuy04 yup sure did
  • 2 0
 BIG TANK with white socks Big Grin
  • 8 0
 www.uclabruins.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=207914060&DB_OEM_ID=30500
  • 2 0
 Robert Fösterman on a klunker
  • 1 0
 If you seek for the music title, here is it:
soundcloud.com/dfalt/dfalt-emptiness-finds-a-way
  • 4 0
 #57 Carl Hulick=Bad Ass
  • 5 0
 Thanks homie
  • 59 0
 Oval Chainrings, '91 Alpinestars and now this? It's retro-Friday at Pinkbike!
  • 11 3
 Looking for new ways to sell old ideas,
  • 1 0
 oh how i miss coaster breaks
  • 2 0
 History lesson.
  • 6 0
 coaster brakes = death
  • 34 3
 speechless
ˈspiːtʃləs/
adjective
adjective: speechless

unable to speak, especially as the temporary result of shock or strong emotion or seeing huge guys on klunk bikes. Big Grin
  • 32 1
 I love Transition's description: "We are proud to offer the Klunker, which represents a giant leap backwards in mountain bike technology."
  • 32 0
 Man, Transition is killing it in every possible way.
  • 13 0
 Oh crap. And now I want another bike.
  • 7 0
 They're on a roll! PNW FTW!!!
  • 18 0
 Probably a stupid question but how the hell do you stop on one of those things?
  • 35 4
 Pedal back brakes like the old days of repack.
  • 36 5
 ^theyre called coaster brakes lol
  • 6 1
 Called repack cause you have to repack the rear hub every run... You can't descend a thousand feet on coaster brakes before it's toast...

www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10201414528146256&set=pb.1266300596.-2207520000.1415378092.&type=3&theater
  • 30 1
 At first i thought they were cheating with a brake lever on the bars, but upon closer inspection it was a bell.
  • 9 0
 I was curious how the coasters are on the trails given their definate lack of modulation and the diffiuclty to maintain even pressure over rough surfaces. From the looks of the video, the trails needed a safe word as they got 50 shades of torn.
  • 3 0
 The only options they had was coast or lock up the rear tire.
  • 3 0
 That coaster brake needed a safe word too. The grease was probably vaporized after trying to slow down that behemoth.
  • 1 0
 That would work only on dry terrain i think
  • 2 0
 @mattsavage save to say they can be called toaster brakes!
  • 17 2
 This is what BMX racing was originally like. The organized racing of 20" and 26" bikes downhill over jumps and berms was already blowing up in So Cal years before those stoners in Fairfax were having "klunking" races down one boring fire road.

How We Roll clip featuring one of the first DH tracks. youtu.be/B1GdIdgkUIc
  • 6 0
 That was cool. Like being in the Way Back Machine.
  • 5 0
 looks like so much fun, almost makes more sense than modern bmx tracks
  • 2 0
 Great vid. Love the numbers written on paper plates.
  • 5 0
 Banana seats, ape hanger bars yeah buddy. We were doing this up here in Far-Nor-Cal about this same time. We went as far as welding moto bars to the old goose necks and ten speed seats slammed to the frame, number plates wired to the bar, fat tires front and rear, racing around local moto tracks and old mining roads, fire trails anywhere we could find to ride. Thanx for the memory refresh. Now off to see if I can find some old pix I have from about 1969-70.
  • 2 0
 Very nice video thanks
  • 2 0
 Love the water jump!
  • 1 0
 Man, those kids could ride!
  • 14 0
 Proof that the style is always in the pilot and not the jet.
  • 7 0
 Being over 40, I am old enough to remember riding coaster brakes. They are a freaking pain in the ass and take some skill to ride well, especially after you get used to a freewheel. Mad skills by those guys, but make mine a single speed rigid with disc brakes.
  • 10 0
 That is a sure fire way to kill myself
  • 7 0
 After watching this video...I feel a certain impulse to buy a Transition Klunker, move to So. Cal. Start taking steroids, get ripped at a Gold's Gym, and go klunking!
  • 1 0
 yup and get yourself a 1980's Sony Walkman Sport with a yellow headphone cable. you will be fighting the girls off.
  • 6 0
 I ride these trails... and I can barely make it down some of these sections with disc brakes and full suspension. MAD PROPS!!!
  • 1 0
 Where can I find this trail?? Just moved to So Cal
  • 2 0
 Awesome, makes me want to build one up again. My first mtb was a single speed klunker with a coaster brake. That coaster brake made going down long, steep, loose hills quite an adventure. My buddy's truck had "Team One Speed" on the back window -- at a time when everything was moving to 14-speed drivetrains. Now I need to find some bell bottoms.
  • 4 0
 A Klunker is probably one of the best ways to scare yourself...and have tons of fun...and build some serious bike handling skills...and...just go get one already! Seriously.
  • 2 3
 try fixed offroad riding, now thats nuts..
  • 1 0
 Hmm... I'm planning on building up a fixed CX this winter. I have done some singletrack on a (brakeless) fixie before and I'm sure it'll happen some more! This time I hope to have a disk brake on the front though.
  • 8 2
 Bro do you even lift!
  • 12 2
 Yes, he definitely lifts.
  • 2 1
 No need to go out and buy one if you already have a BMX. It's just as scary and fun to ride mountain bike trails on those too. Try it every once in a while with no brakes. Obviously you can't hit anything too steep without a safe runout but you learn to commit to your lines!
  • 1 0
 No suspension, no gears, and pretty much no brakes. Do we really need that bike's industry technology bollocks to perform is such a way? Probably one of my favourites videos here: good edit, nice music. And the stuff they do on those 'gas pipes' is just outstanding..
  • 2 0
 These guys shred on those coaster brakes better than the lions share of the riding population does on more able brake'd bikes!! Goes to show it's the Indian and not the arrow....and don't get all PC on me!
  • 4 0
 I don't know why I want one but golly do I want one.
  • 2 0
 damm all over socal Kennter whoops , PV , my backyard Kenneth Hahn aka Ghetto track , Telonix man this guy was rippin all over SoCal Klunkin It !!...
  • 1 0
 Ker-Plunking McKlunking... take it back to bad brakes, and 4130 rigid. Helps remind us that biking is just for fun, thats what started all this BS anyway, Looks good... Ahhh the memories!!!
  • 3 0
 ... And I've always thought that I needed more travel
  • 3 0
 No gears, no shocks, and no carbon. I am 36 so I remember these days.
  • 4 0
 Me too. While watching this, I keep thinking about all of the conversations I read on pb where people obsess about all of the little things about bikes. This vid shows that people can shred and have fun on anything with two wheels and pedals.
  • 5 0
 Yup, turned 48 today, and I love my carbon Fuel, but I also have a steel Sawyer that I might even love more . . . this makes me want to convert it to single speed and put a coaster brake on it!
  • 2 0
 Happy birthday, ten beers!
  • 4 0
 whats the music?
  • 1 0
 found the track: soundcloud.com/dfalt/dfalt-emptiness-finds-a-way
  • 1 0
 thanks buddy
  • 2 0
 This makes me want to go ride my dj bike on some trails haha the closest thing I have to a clunker.
  • 2 0
 Honestly this edit is better than the hardtail edits that have been coming out recently.
  • 3 0
 gary fisher would be proud
  • 2 0
 You guys are straight Killing it on those Klunks! Sweet video and hope you ride with you crazy Cali kids some day!
  • 3 0
 You're welcome whenever Tony!
  • 2 0
 Sick!! Some classic hard core Laguna action! those trails are GNARR! on those bikes oO
  • 3 0
 B*stards, with your sunshine & dust!
  • 2 0
 makes me flinch to watch, so frail in a way, like skiing downhill on cross-country skis; amazing skill
  • 3 0
 Those guys get more done by 9am on Klunkers than I get done all day.
  • 2 0
 You lost me at Socal. surprised you got that much footage when sitting in traffic most of the day
  • 2 0
 we should all feel ashamed for claiming to "need" a full suspension with 2 brakes and multiple gears.
  • 1 0
 I'd buy one these right now if there was an option for a rear disc brake. Anyone know of a conversion kit, other than welding on some caliper mounting tabs?
  • 1 0
 Just awesome! And I have no problem saying I don't see myself riding trails like that with klunkers and expecting to survive long. Hugh props to this!
  • 1 0
 Worrying when they ride faster on bangers than you can on a full blown dh bike. Ps I wish i could KLUNK!!
  • 2 1
 They ain t got brakes ! So sick, this is the proof you don t NEED to have suspension to say you're mountainbiking!
  • 2 0
 They have coaster brakes.
  • 1 0
 Yes I saw that in the comments after... Even with that it has to be rough !
  • 1 0
 Wanna buy that bike? www.transitionbikes.com/2013/Bikes_Klunker.cfm I must say that There is tentation !!!
  • 3 0
 Hulk KLUNK !
  • 2 0
 That 300 pound dude got no knee protection, true skills and confidence.
  • 1 0
 Getting one, just for the fun factor. They are cheap as hell too ($580), compared with any new bike you would buy.
  • 2 0
 kudos to whoever built those wheels! nice vid.
  • 1 0
 This is like every ride on a Rigid Single Speed. But the big boy on that single is inspiringSmile Clyde's take heart!
  • 2 0
 Telonics... on a clunker? /headasplode
  • 2 0
 That would make the best rim commercial ever.
  • 1 0
 SPOT ON!!!!! I'd have WWAAYY more body armor on doing that with COASTER BRAKES!?!?!?! impressive
  • 2 0
 This video tells you.... Hey, harden the fuck up!!
  • 2 0
 I wonder if the BIG FELLA gets any flex out of those cranks!
  • 3 1
 Clearly hipster friday on PinkBike...
  • 1 0
 Unfortunately, my trails looking nothing like this. Lots more trees and roots, lots of roots.
  • 2 0
 HIS SHOULDER MUSCLES ARE BIGGER THAN MY HEAD!!!!!
  • 1 0
 Some of those frame welds are going to crack under those forces, be careful out there and inspect before each ride.
  • 1 0
 Is hub making that tinkle at fast riding over rocks like 1:35 ?
  • 2 1
 That big dude looks cool as hell riding a bike!!
  • 1 0
 Hahaha,that last little bit Smile
  • 1 0
 Where in so cal is that little jump section?
  • 2 1
 Top of Kenter Canyon. L.A. County
  • 2 0
 California Klunkin'
  • 2 0
 on such a winter's day (well, almost)
  • 1 0
 Anybody tried this before? It's super fun. Hard as shit to.
  • 1 0
 Hell yeah ! Some So.Cal riding
  • 1 0
 Does that one guy even lift?! l think so.
  • 1 0
 man, that took me back 25 years!
  • 1 0
 ahhh the origin of widebars
  • 1 0
 I want one so bad. Almost want to sell my stp and get one...any takers?
  • 1 0
 Damn! I started with a bike like that 33 years ago, mine was 20" wheels!
  • 1 0
 Hmmm this makes me wanna..... Get my clunk on.
  • 1 0
 Badass The Boz rides a klunker.
  • 1 0
 They do everything RAD in California!
  • 3 0
 Not just rad, hella rad!
  • 3 0
 "hella rad" is NorCal, "way rad" is SoCal. Get your colloquialisms straight!
  • 1 0
 Oh, I see. I lived in NorCal and the only time I ever rode in SoCal was with a fellow Aussie.
  • 2 2
 Those guy promised me one of those bikes after I spent a day on Repack with them on a film shoot. Still waiting.
  • 1 0
 WOW. I could feel every landing in my back....
  • 2 1
 SICK KENTER WHOOPS ON KLUNKERS!!!
  • 1 0
 "if you want to be part of the klunker movement, you need one of these".
  • 1 0
 I predict Fat tire clunkers next,,
  • 1 0
 $250 fat tire Mongoose coaster brake bike complete
www.bonanza.com/listings/26-Mongoose-Beast-Men-s-Fat-Tire-Mountain-Bike-Red-Free-Shipping-Great-Gift-/214526693?gpid=76984451581&gpkwd=&goog_pla=1&gclid=Cj0KEQiA-PGiBRDRz4jH9o39yZwBEiQAWCBZNRAoQCqlRC4ldX36v1e10T-NNRW_cXAz0MWJjIGpEfQaAqPk8P8HAQ
Don't doo it buy a TR Klunk Fat Tire bikes are for Gordons
  • 1 0
 Haha thats cool! but I ride NS Bikes all the way.
  • 1 0
 im waiting for 27.5 enduro clunker
  • 1 0
 Was any of this filmed in Pacifica, CA?
  • 2 0
 aliens
  • 1 0
 How's he skidding he has no brakes?
  • 1 0
 Do those bikes have coaster brakes?
  • 1 0
 thank you transition for reintroducing old ideas in a new way!
  • 1 0
 my wrists hurt just watching that!
  • 1 0
 That big lump of meat looked like Kyle Strait
  • 1 0
 hmm less Maintenance ,,
  • 3 0
 more medical intervention
  • 1 0
 No Brakessssss
  • 1 0
 Klunkin is a habit
  • 1 1
 A klunker is an old bike, they don't quite get it!
  • 1 0
 THAT. Was insane!
  • 1 0
 death grip huehuehue
  • 1 0
 bike is bike
  • 1 0
 So. How many flats?
  • 1 0
 Not a single flat
  • 1 0
 Sketchy as £u¢k!
  • 1 0
 BBEEEFFFFCAAAKKEE
  • 1 3
 brakeless?? :o
  • 2 1
 daquele tipo de bikes que pedalas para tras e para
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