jessefive

i don't know if this has been posted before, but I saw this and thought this forum might enjoy

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WbBPXKEwaP4

An old Style Concil video

rodny71

I wonder why most people in the 70's/80's rode frames that were too big for them.

wnatw

hot chick on LSD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J1NWG3nyrs

Learn_not2burn

There are actually a couple builders out there that believe that right now everyone is riding frames too small for them.

12XU

This pretty much cements Paul Weller as my favorite person ever.

lapin_marron

https://video.google.fr/videoplay?doc...79291319404208
alleycat in Paris

CF4L

repost? maybe.

single speed? probably not...

awesome? yes.

Here: https://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_i...XalnaSNq7IrqJL

Cadd

Here is one of the most touching & inspirational stories I've ever come across. The bond between a father and his son. It brought a tear in my eye. Amazing stuff you can put your body through. Amazing.

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From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly

I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay for their text messaging. But compared with Dick Hoyt, I stink.

Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars--all in the same day.

Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. on a bike. Makes taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?

And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except save his life.

This love story began in Winchester, Mass., 43 years ago, when Rick was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs.

``He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life;'' Dick says doctors told him and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. ``Put him in an institution.''

But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was anything to help the boy communicate. ``No way,'' Dick says he was told. ``There's nothing going on in his brain.''

"Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out a lot was going on in his brain.

Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? ``Go Bruins!'' And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the school organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, ``Dad, I want to do that.''

Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described ``porker'' who never ran more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he tried. ``Then it was me who was handicapped,'' Dick says. ``I was sore for two weeks.''

That day changed Rick's life. ``Dad,'' he typed, ``when we were running, it felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!''

And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon.

``No way,'' Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren't quite a single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway, then they found a way to get into the race officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the qualifying time for Boston the following year.

Then somebody said, ``Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?''

How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since he was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick tried.

Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironmans in Hawaii. It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't you think?

Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? ``No way,'' he says. Dick does it purely for ``the awesome feeling'' he gets seeing Rick with a cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together.

This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best time'? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35 minutes off the world record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens to be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the time.

``No question about it,'' Rick types. ``My dad is the Father of the Century.''

And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had a mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries was 95% clogged. ``If you hadn't been in such great shape,'' one doctor told him, ``you probably would've died 15 years ago.''

So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life.

Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in Boston, and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass., always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this Father's Day.

That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really wants to give him is a gift he can never buy.

``The thing I'd most like,'' Rick types, ``is that my dad sit in the chair and I push him once.''



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryCTIigaloQ

FERAL

Awesome

rodny71

great video. I like how motorists in Paris are more tolerant of crazy cyclists.

sivat

OH MAN! that was awesome. I never saw the end coming.

Scooped

saw this in the 50yr forum :https://video.google.com/videoplay?do...62777896510907

sivat

Should we have a party when this is posted for the 25th time?

lapin_marron

4/5 of this guys are messengers
in France, in theory, all motorists have a biker's soul..
the next is 28 october with one of yours... magpie from https://www.blackbirdsf.org/
the informations are here https://www.urbancycle.fr/team/forum/...php?id=785&p=1

Tangsooyuk

set your wayback machines for 1988:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHax_...elated&search=

check out all the parts and the rest of their vids.

LóFarkas

Saw the guy in an ironman race TV broadcast years ago. Damn, that's a tough man. He finished the swim when the rest of the field was 10s of K into the bike... finished the bike when the others were already back in the hotel... But he made it through the run as well. That's some determination.

*new*guy

https://video.google.com/videoplay?do...e+stairs&hl=en

CF4L

i know lots of people here used to ride bmx and that we all respect the craft... so he is a nice long vid.

https://video.google.com/videoplay?do...03573006546167

Learn_not2burn

Damn, I want a bmx bike. 6:50 in is just gnarly.

Edit: nevermind the entire thing is gnarly as hell.

ROACHTRAP

Cool vid. Although it looks earlier then 88

Burd

More trackstand variation crapola...

Trackstand v3.0

Learn_not2burn

This was posted in the track thread a while ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJjucIAarNc

It's specifically to recount some of the achievements of one cyclist, but have some great track footage on it. After the stupd intro it gets good.

This one is just for fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx-NLPH8JeM

DoshKel

Like always, very awesome. Good music too. I really enjoy your videos.

Wow. You just made my night with that last video. It was better than perfect.

CRM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTKL8MNH95Q

*new*guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq6vu...watch_response

maybe this one hasn't been posted before