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Post by franco on Dec 10, 2020 22:47:10 GMT
Great rider, sadly ended up disabled but what a talent...
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Post by Jem on Dec 12, 2020 18:01:55 GMT
I think I saw this a long time ago. Or something like it.
Almost certainly, this can't be the same bike throughout the whole video? Surely a buckled wheel or worse within the first 2 mins? Great advert for Raleigh
On a slight tangent, am I the only person who never learned to wheelie?
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Post by franco on Dec 12, 2020 19:56:31 GMT
I wondered that Jem, you’d imagine the wheels wouldn’t be up to all those jumps and drops.
Those Raleigh Airlite bikes got some bad reviews from what I can gather, along the lines of much better options available in the same price bracket. I looked at a second hand one in Matlock last year and it was a bit of a mess to say it wasn’t very old, oil everywhere, a bit of a telltale sign it wasn’t running very well.
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Post by robt on Dec 12, 2020 22:59:48 GMT
On a slight tangent, am I the only person who never learned to wheelie? No. |
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Post by velocipete on Dec 13, 2020 7:16:07 GMT
Me neither. If I wanted to ride on one wheel, I'd have built a unicycle!
Cheers,
Pete.
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Post by brianbutler on Dec 13, 2020 13:37:01 GMT
We used to pop wheelies on our three-speeds in the 60's. Not persistent wheelies, only 10 or 20 feet. The problem with trying it on a heavy bike with a long wheelbase is that sometimes it would pull the stem out of the head tube, or the front wheel would fall off, both resulting in hilarious low speed crashes. We didn't care because we were still made of rubber.
Brian
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Post by wheelson on Dec 13, 2020 13:54:52 GMT
Me neither. If I wanted to ride on one wheel, I'd have built a unicycle! Cheers, Pete. I was never very good at wheelies, or with a unicycle either. During 1960’s-70’s when I worked in a Schwinn dealership that sold a very good unicycle. Of course we all had to try to ride one. The showroom of the shop was long and narrow and our rides were unidirectional. More like hanging on for dear life, somewhat akin to bull riding in a rodeo. Best, John “wheelson” |
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