Been swamped with work lately but I had a chance to procrastinate on the web long enough to come across this on a website:
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It's one thing to do crazy stuff on a bike in an isolated/designated area where your actions don't have the possiblity of dangerous consequences or reprocussions on the general public, but THIS...
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...now don't get me wrong - I love the urban sub-culture of biking but I'm definitely NOT a proponent of doing what these guys do. Eventually one of them is going to cause an accident, get horribly crippled, or worse... not to mention that it doesn't exactly endear cyclists to the non-biking community... a guy flys by me on a bike and smacks my car... not gonna be my favorite person in the world.This is the trailer for Empire, a movie filmed on location in the streets of New York, about extreme fixed-gear bicycling! OOH WHA-AH AH-IRONIC TATTOO! For the uninitiated, extreme fixed-gear bicycling is kind of like BMX, except the only stunts are weaving through traffic like an a$$hole and not having a job.
It's one thing to do crazy stuff on a bike in an isolated/designated area where your actions don't have the possiblity of dangerous consequences or reprocussions on the general public, but THIS...