Mon 20 Apr
2009
FIXED GEAR MASHERS
I’m still not sure exactly how I found this site, but I suppose when you’re looking for motivation to keep riding the bike, you’ll look at crazy skills and danger rides just for excitement.
In the city there are a lot of bike commuters and the types of bikes they ride range from the absurd to the straight up cool. The riders that always get my attention though are the ones that ride single speed (or fixed gear) bikes.
The really good riders of these bikes, ride them with no brakes and the techniques they employ to bring the bike to a stop will range from putting a foot on the wheel to jack-knifing the bike sideways.
Some of these guys have mad skillz. So I started looking up bikers of this kind and lo and behold I come across Mash Transit Productions. Check these guys out in action here. Watch the first video titled AUSTIN – TEXAS. Shit, they’re riding like that without helmets!
Oh yeah, and that fella that joins them? The one with a white t-shirt and khaki shorts, look familiar? That’s Lance Armstrong. I always figured he was a crazy nut.
Anyway, these guys remind me of why I like biking so much. Sure, I may not pull the stunts they do, but just sitting and going for spin, is just plain old fun.
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