This could well be the coolest thing we’ve shown you since tallbike jousting.
Two daredevils racing their bikes through the malls of Canberra.
Made of Win, and Public Outrage.
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Mall Racing!
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c_c said :
Professionals crash much more often than amateurs. That’s why they get paid – to push the limits.
Don’t recall ever saying it was safe – I just said it looked like they were taking it pretty easy on those escalators.
c_c said :
It wasn’t the fall that injured him, it was the bike crashing down on top of him. If I was walking round that circuit and someone dropped a motor bike on me it would damage me too, protective gear or not.
Look, it isn’t safe: riding a bicycle has risks and anyone who rides on or off road knows it. However the risks of hospitalisation or early death are lower for me if I ride than if I sat on my fat arse every day. So every time I go out on a bike I know the risks but I know the rewards too.
niftydog said :
Not irrelevant at all. Did you bother to watch the video, he wasn’t doing anything extraordinary. He came up a slop and was ejected from the bike coming down the other side when the rear tyre left the ground.
Now this is a professional, with professional safety gear and a professional bike on a specially created track made for that purpose. And still face planted it.
It’s only wannabes who say they’ve got mad skills and big brakes and therefore something is safe.
I the good old days (late eighties – and not necessarily good), you could cover half of belco without returning to ground level. Benjamin offices, Cameron Offices, the churches centre, the mall, the buss interchange all had bridges, over head walk ways and connections. For a kid on a bike it was great, and we were no math speed wise for the rare security guard who would tell us to get off and walk.
Almost all gone now. Sigh.
If you liked downmall racing, you’ll love Valparaiso.
http://youtu.be/xIe6hYAdw_I
Did someone on RA say a few weeks ago that Canberra was too hilly for cycling?
c_c said :
…but this irrelevant link about a professional moto rider who, shock horror, got injured plying his trade will surely convince you of… umm… something.
Ooooooookaaayyy. >>backing away<<
Interesting that a couple of posters usually prominent in road user related threads, usually pushing the theory you must be a self-important twat if you break a road rule, seem to condone behaviour of these cyclists.
I think chewy_14 has nailed it. 😉
Sandman said :
It’s motocross, but I’m willing to bet this guy had better brakes, better protective gear and more expertise than either of these jokers. How’s that going for him: http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/summer/2012/story/_/id/8117532/robbie-maddison-x-games-breaking-leg-practice
niftydog said :
Can’t let the truth get in the way of a good whine.
Well it gives a bad name to cyclists and I would hate for anyone to get hurt even a close call. But anything that desecrates a westfield (by moving through fast not buying anything and leaving some skid marks) is good in my mind. Thy should do belconnen mall I went there today for the first time since the changes and it’s a soul-killing monolithic labyrinth of cheap and nasty interiors and exteriors. The car-park alone made me feel like humans weren’t meant to us this space.
Update from Canberra Times.
c_c said :
Why? For stating the truth about what a mountain bike is capable of?
I’m not condoning it, but what looks crazy to you looks pretty restrained to an experienced MTBer.
wildturkeycanoe said :
No s*** sherlock but a fully kitted downhill bike with 8″ hydraulic disc brakes, 2.3″ wide knobby tyres & an overall mass of 100kg’s or less pretty well does. Even on the slippery tiled surface they are pretty good & will outbrake pretty well anything.
Fark some of you people must live some boring lives, you hate everything. No one was hurt, have a laugh at Westfield & get on with life.
KB1971 said :
Cars have disc brakes too. Doesn’t make them stop on a dime, there’s a thing called momentum that doesn’t strictly apply to anything over a tonne.
Unfortunately the video has been deleted [hopefully pending investigation and prosecution by the authorities] so I can’t get fully outraged at the antics, but by the responses here it seems there should have been more done by Westfield. If the police don’t have authority for punishing reckless endangerment or some such crime, why don’t I just rock up to L1 Belco and do some burnouts in the entertainment area? I bet the response won’t be as warm and full of praise by some of the readers here.
c_c said :
Have you actually ridden a MTB with hydraulic disc brakes?
c_c said :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zPOtJ_dk8w
Fun idiocy though……
chewy14 said :
Jim Jones rolls. Slightly flaky, and they all twist to the left…
niftydog said :
Idiot. That is just moronic, really one of the stupidest, ill thought comments in a long, long time. Disc brakes won’t stop you hurtling down a god damn escalator, or stop you coming around a corner plowing into someone. God I hope you don’t drive.
Go get an education.
niftydog said :
Idiot.
These braggadocios will use this moment to pretend they won’t die. But within a time much closer than they expect, shall they face careless, inevitable oblivion.