The Bikelife Circus - This project took around 4 weeks to complete. We wanted to push ourselves mentally and physically in this project as well as push the scene by introducing a whole new style of tricks.—Born to Ride
Hi guys I'm a mechanic, give me a call and I can sort you out with some axles for those forks so your wheels don't keep coming off!
Srsly awesome skills tho!
I was watching a bunch of similar stuff recently and decided i needed to learn hand drag wheelies to take to the trails.... nah, I'm about 3ft short of being able to reach the ground, too fat to have the right centre of mass and too old to be flexible enough.
That was amazing! So nice to see different aspects of biking, but love for biking overall! Good tune, good vibes, well done. Now if I could only wheelie for longer than 3 pedal strokes......
Very very cool though I have less than zero respect for the London Wheelie movement generally given the videos that have emerged of gangs on bikes attacking bikers, drivers and other residents, stealing and being both physically and verbally abusive. Any social movement that gets kids out of trouble and on to their bikes is great, but it's not achieving the main aim if they are just as antisocial and in gang related activity anyway.
"This mountain bike video is very impressive, but mountain bikers generally are anti social - they ride on footpaths, ruin the countryside, leave litter everywhere and cause trail erosion...."
Sir I believe you are talking 'some next rubbish'.
You're tainting something great with biased and unsubstantiated crap.
London has youth crime like any other city, that's got nothing to do with this video.
@Steventux: Wrong, it's tainted by association. The wheelie movement in London is pretty massive and is known for the behaviour I have already stated. Couldn't care less if I get downvoted for telling the truth.
Unfortunately he's right, for how cool it looks they spend most days riding full pelt along pavements scaring people by doing late swerves at them.
Fair enough if it's there mates but it's just members of the public.
Yep agreed.... the only good thing about the London Wheelie movement is that they are on bikes... pretty much everything else is about being an anti social git. Good to see less of that element in this video however. One day they might learn more than one trick, and progress to BMX.
Jesus Christ - can you not just enjoy it for what it is? That being a couple of guys who've put a lot of time into something that most of us will never have the skill or patience to pull off ourselves. Besides; it looks very much to be the case that they've made an effort to ensure that their practice and filming takes place at times and locations where they aren't bothering anyone at all.
@arna86: Im guessing you havent spent a lot of time recently in London. There are locations (such as the South Bank) where wheelie gangs ride full pelt at crowds of people. When they fall off because they have hit someone then they gang up on the individual and get aggressive. Some play chicken buses and cars. If people are trying to clean up the movement then Id support that but right now, there a bit of a journey to go on.
@landscapeben: You've conflated the style of riding in this video with your own prejudice and generalisations about a very large group of people. Do you live in London? Can you see the variety of behaviour exhibited by a very economically diverse community? Sure kids on bikes do bad things, kids in gangs do bad things, people in uniforms do bad things, motorists in high end cars do bad things, it's a very large city. Cherry pick your prejudice into any of it. Some people would attack Critical Mass with the same complaints you make. At least substantiate what you are saying instead of just reiterating how right you are. Also point out the crime occurring in this video, it's petty negativity to attribute the unconnected bad behaviour of others to a creative film like this. As @twopoint6khz gently tried to illustrate earlier, no one's arse is totally clean in this world, so you know where to point your finger.
@Steventux: I work in London so I see enough of this in person as do others who have commented. I fully accept that this video is not specifically about wheelie gangs and does display some incredible talent, but as said before, they are tainted by association when they are clearly part of the same group. Look them up for crying out loud, takes all of 2 seconds to see that bikelife is linked with bikestormz and the whole movement.
The same finger can be pointed at you, prejudice is often a word used to justify bad behaviour by making out that the critic is taking a morally indefensible position. Can you see the variety of behaviour exhibited by a very economically diverse community? Antisocial behaviour is antisocial behaviour, regardless of background and if a movement has a disproportionately large amount of it then it should be recognised and not swept under a rug.
@landscapeben: I've lived in Hackney for 25 years, there's good and there's bad anywhere you want to look for it. There's trail sabotage and attacks on landowners going on in the Surrey Hills for example. The behaviour in this video isn't antisocial. The association has been made by you and remains totally unsubstantiated and in my opinion smacks of snobbery. All it does is adds a negative connotation to a great video. You head back to the home counties and judge though.
@Steventux: Clearly you didn't bother looking them up then, as a very short google search is all you need for substantiation. I'm done debating with someone who can't see that there is equal importance in highlighting the bad as in celebrating the good. Snobbery good one.
@Steventux: I've already said several times there's nothing bad in the video, the video is excellent and they have awesome skills! But I felt it necessary to give a measured response and that means mentioning what they are affiliated with, it ain't all sunshine and roses and most of the wheelie boys round london that I've seen are mixing these skills with antisocial behaviour on a grand scale. The link is not tenuous, they are part of the same movement and all of it's problems. Something worth noting, not ignoring!
@Steventux: I think I have substantiated it. But moving one you're on the money with the wheelie thing, I had a local teenager offer to teach me the other day when he saw how bad I was
That video is brilliant, serious mad skills there. Lots of damage to the dropouts but who cares, get a scrapper and get on it. I thought I could wheelie till the sun comes up but I've got nowt on these guys.
Makes me just want to get a £50 shed off gumtree and start firing the front wheel out and chasing it down
Wheelies are the coolest thing ever. But someone’s always gotta take It too far and make it totally irrelevant. Like those Chinese girls that can wheelie better than anyone. And these guys. What good is a bicycle that your front wheel falls off of?
Respect for the “wheel in the fork catch” although it’s a bit of a Tate Roskelley rip off...... We were doing most of the other moves in the mid nineties already... Sorry. Hate on me..
Now if I could only wheelie for longer than 3 pedal strokes......
Magic!
www.globalcyclingnetwork.com/video/bikes-up-knives-down-using-cycling-to-fight-knife-crime
Do you live in London? Can you see the variety of behaviour exhibited by a very economically diverse community?
Sure kids on bikes do bad things, kids in gangs do bad things, people in uniforms do bad things, motorists in high end cars do bad things, it's a very large city. Cherry pick your prejudice into any of it. Some people would attack Critical Mass with the same complaints you make.
At least substantiate what you are saying instead of just reiterating how right you are.
Also point out the crime occurring in this video, it's petty negativity to attribute the unconnected bad behaviour of others to a creative film like this.
As @twopoint6khz gently tried to illustrate earlier, no one's arse is totally clean in this world, so you know where to point your finger.
The same finger can be pointed at you, prejudice is often a word used to justify bad behaviour by making out that the critic is taking a morally indefensible position. Can you see the variety of behaviour exhibited by a very economically diverse community? Antisocial behaviour is antisocial behaviour, regardless of background and if a movement has a disproportionately large amount of it then it should be recognised and not swept under a rug.
I've lived in Hackney for 25 years, there's good and there's bad anywhere you want to look for it. There's trail sabotage and attacks on landowners going on in the Surrey Hills for example.
The behaviour in this video isn't antisocial. The association has been made by you and remains totally unsubstantiated and in my opinion smacks of snobbery. All it does is adds a negative connotation to a great video.
You head back to the home counties and judge though.
PS. I can't wheelie for shit neither.
Makes me just want to get a £50 shed off gumtree and start firing the front wheel out and chasing it down
But someone’s always gotta take It too far and make it totally irrelevant.
Like those Chinese girls that can wheelie better than anyone.
And these guys.
What good is a bicycle that your front wheel falls off of?
We were doing most of the other moves in the mid nineties already... Sorry. Hate on me..
Tate appreciates these guys.....