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Old 07-13-05, 11:30 AM
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Artistic cycling, which is about as big of an oxymoron as they can make it, happens here and there in Europe mostly. It is done on bikes with wheels no smaller than 24" (per their rule book) no front pegs, fixed gearing with a (generally) 1:1 gearing ratio (unicycle)...

It is a joke how little creativity and the complete lack of focus on originality - but there are some crazy, freakin' hard tricks being done by those guys. Forget hang gliders (multiple flail boomerangs) - they can do boomerang bar rides... I tried those 15 years ago and ate crap hard at least a dozen times without ever coming close.

Mostly it is really gay (point your toes!) - but it doesn't take away from how hard some of it really is. A far cry from what Jumelin or Wilhelm can do these days, but still some tough stuff on bigger bikes.

NOTE: Nice bike, but it looks like you are running steel pegs which you could replace with something like these to save weight and be more appropriate unless you are planning to grind.
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