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- mikotondria30
its like everyone thinks flash is a bmx..
Everyone got a bmx for christmas or birthday back in the 80s, and pretty soon everyone could pop a wheelie, bust out an endo, and turn the handlebars a little bit when they went off a home made ramp in the woods. These basic tricks were the right-click Add Tweens of their time.
Anyone and everyone can do it, and did.
We loved watching 'pros' pop massive 'ariels' off bigger ramps on tv, as we loved the 3d programming of den ivanov, but mostly we all did the same old wheelies in our street.
Then people started putting them together into artful sequences in 'flatland' competitions, and we understood that the bike, and it's east manuverabilities was just a tool to express something else, in the right hands, and with a bit of thought. Mostly we just popped out the same old moves, maybe bumping into a parked car now and then.Now many years on, some of those old schoolers are pulling backward sumersaults off ramps and doing seemingly gravity-defying twists and loops at hair-raising speeds, on tv, for thousands of dollars. It's more than just using the small wheels and center-of-mass to lift the wheels up, but that's essentially what we all think of, kids riding round the neighborhood jumping up and off stuff with little style or art, and we sneer at them as we cruise past on our 55gear carbon monocoque framed ultra-bikes.
On our way to work. Who's the cunt ?- I like turtles...utopian
- 10 points for the worst analogy of all timemudchicken
- ..dreadful, isnt it ? It clarifies nothing, and does it very badly.mikotondria3