Boe

This is my man Erik, right here, never seen a 180 before of a track bike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LniI3Xp8sQE

Learn_not2burn

What kind of gearing is everyone using to do wheelies?

trons

****ing sick

LóFarkas

Crazy skills...
Props to his wheelbuilder if his wheels are still true.

TRaffic Jammer

sweeeet

notfred

What's the point? Go get BMX bikes if you're just going to hang out at the mall and do tricks. They're cheaper, they won't break as easily, and you can do cooler tricks on them.

TRaffic Jammer

Looks like it's after a day of messin'

**edit*** never mind..it's not.. I watched it again, no bags in sight.

sivat

While i'm impressed by the skills these guys have, i can picture dozens of BMX kids laughing at the idea of bunnyhopping over a water bottle.

hellhound

learn as much as you can on a track bike. some of these tricks are lame, some are sick. I don't mind seeing the goof-off footage as long as they are backing it by the 50mph traffic stuff.

lyledriver

You know what I don't see enough of lately?

270° to smith

eddiebrannan

it's come to this?

shawnrock@gmail

I ride BMX, so I'll give you my perspective: It's goofy, but hard to do this type of stuff on a track bike. Actually, I suppose it's not really hard in the way that some BMX tricks are (trying them literally hundreds or thousands of times over the course of a few months), but a bit tricky at first. You also have to worry about your rims. It's all fun though.

carleton

No offense guys, this isn't breaking news.

Not only can any bmxer do this on a 20incher. But, any BMXer worth anything can get on any one of our track bikes and do this.

I used to ride BMX and Fixie in SF back in like 2000 at the Clocktower (embarcadero and market). I would ride my fixie down there and my BMX buddies would bust out crazy sh1t on my fixie. With no experience on fixie, they could skid, track stand, ride backwards 360, ride backwards straight. I wouldn't let them do jumping tricks.

As far as bike control skills go, it's like this:
1) BMX flatlanders
2) Trials
3) BMX Park/Street

TRaffic Jammer

what next fixies on vert?

sers

53x12?

Svr

Uhhhhh....


You do realize BMX riders have been doing this type of stuff for the past thirty years, don't you?

I mean, I was doing that stuff on my 20 inch BMX bike back in the 1980's.


Still, not bad for a track bike.

dommer

why the **** is everyone comparing this to bmx?

its not a bmx. and theyre probably not bmx riders.

stop being dumb

Svr

Because some of us have been doing stuff like this on bikes for the past twenty years, and we're not impressed.

We were all young and stupid at one time.

Edit--- In fact, if he had any real skillz, he'd be doing a bunnyhop 360, like I learned to do back in 1987.

carleton

Um...because they are doing BMX tricks.

GOSH.

dommer

haha cool brag dude.

im pretty sure these dudes are just having a little fun dicking around on their bikes.

not trying to impress washed up bmx dudes

carleton

Hahahaha! Washed up BMX dudes is right. I'm certainly one of them.

That being said, we all used to dork around doing stupid stuff, like playing H.O.R.S.E. (the Endo Can-Can used to get 'em every time!). But, we never video taped it and put it on the web.

Props to the dudes hanging out and dorkin out on their bikes...and having fun.

Svr

LOL...... washed up BMX dude. Describes me to a T.

TNCLR

if you were alive in the '80's you might know what he's talking about. go rent "rad" for a refresher course. then you can apologize to all of us washed up bmx dudes.

carleton

Don't forget "Dorkin in York" and the rest of the Dorkin series.

BC Dub

That's so freakin' awesome. I'm having visions of tacoed wheels though. Something to try on my old wheelset