pinkrobe

Those are some baby-butt-smooth streets those folks are riding on. That's not the sort of thing I'd do with $60 racing tires, but you can replicate that easily by leaning forward and locking up the rear wheel. More impressive is the two-wheel skid, where you lock up front and back. Not too tough on dirt, but on pavement it's a little dicey. In the snow - it's a blast!

andymac

I have inadvertently done that on my BMX cruiser in one of the local races .... with any luck my elbow will be back to normal by Christmas

Doug5150

Yea that's what I'm seeing too.... Drifting is NOT locking up your tires.

And if you want to be absolutely picky--drifting is only when you're sliding ALL your tires.
This is darn difficult to do on regular bicycle-width tires on pavement, but maybe if you had a bike built with the 4" Schwinn chopper rear tires on both ends maybe you could pull it off.
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Artkansas 

Looks fun. I'm impressed. I have to wonder if there are outtakes where his control is not quite as good.

Flimflam

Impressive... I had to wonder how the heck that's achieved so easily, heck my bikes grip way more than those seem to be (though I don't ride fixed) - very cool none the less. I laughed at the first one, it was just too cool, really cool (OK so it's not drifting but it's an interesting take on the skid scene) - I was thinking along the lines of lubed tyres too - seriously HOW do they do that so easily and keep the speed, heh...

Guy in the second vid looks as though he's skitching to start off with.

Last drift I did was a proper drift when I flatted in my rear and the backend went nicely out around a right turn - sucked for my tyre wall, but must've looked kinda neat.

I've not done skids like that in a long time (and never as good as the ones in the vid), but this makes me want to rekindle that fun

modernjess

I never produce videos of myself ruining my tires, especially when I'm in a hurry.

Crazy Cyclist

That guy is an accident waiting to happen IMO. What if he skids around the corner, loses control and runs into something or someone.

He isn't even wearing a helmet.

Doug5150

News flash: most of the rest of the world doesn't wear bicycle helmets, ever.
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acroy

hey whaddaya know: us folks in the US sometimes ain't so dumb after all!