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« on: December 15, 2007, 04:56:15 pm » |
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If this should fit better in the off topic section, feel free to move it. While sifting through the aethernet this morning, I stumbled a across a t-shirt that depicts the origins of the extreme bike culture. Pictured on this t-shirt is a very dapper looking man who has been riding a pennyfarthing. Now I say he has been riding it, because the image shows this gentleman in the air after he has launched himself off a ramp, and he is in the process of doing a trick in mid-flight(I'n no extreme bike rider, so I couldn't tell you what trick he was doing). http://www.threadless.com/submission/143996/Extreme_Beginnings?streetteam=jstruanHere is the link to the website where I found this t-shirt. I hope that whoever goes and looks at it gets as much of a giggle from it is I do. |
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« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2007, 05:46:50 pm » |
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Somewhat off-topic: That's either a can-can, a Superman or a yet-to-be crash.
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Atterton
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Only The Shadow knows
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« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2007, 05:54:31 pm » |
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I think a Superman would involve him having only one hand on the handlebars.
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« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2007, 06:00:26 pm » |
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Hm, no that would be a One-handed Superman, wouldn't it? The Superman Seatgrab is two-handed as far as I know.
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Atterton
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« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2007, 06:01:38 pm » |
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I have no idea really.
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Darksmith
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« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2007, 06:16:05 pm » |
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From my lack of knowledge on the subject, I thought that it might either be a superman type move, but I also thought that a superman involved grabbing the seat, or letting go of the handlebars, or else a tail whip, which I'm not too sure how well that would work out on a penny farthing.
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von Brasswood
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« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2007, 06:23:49 pm » |
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Wikipedia:
Superman: No footer with feet extended out to the back, in a Superman position.
Superman Seatgrab: A standard superman but with one hand on the seat rather than the handlebars
Nothing: Nothing is touching the bike, neither arms nor legs, hence the name.
3-Star: Only one hand touches the handlebars, so the extended arm and legs form a star.
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Vienna Fahrmann
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« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2007, 08:56:00 pm » |
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Dear vonBrasswood,
Thanks for the wiki definitions...being unfamiliar with extreme bike culture, I was visualizing the caped hero.
Vienna
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« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2007, 10:41:31 pm » |
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No problem, Vienna. I'm not into the culture so much, but I have Motocross friends that have told/shown me the innings. As well as me playing some computer games on the subject.
There's not much capes going on though. It'd probably jam itself in the wheels. Never a pretty sight. Wheels is to capes as kryptonite is to Superman.
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Prof. Brockworth
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« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2007, 11:42:44 pm » |
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And there was me thinking it was a tailwhip gone horribly, horribly wrong...
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Recovering from pennyfarthing bruises...
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« Reply #10 on: December 16, 2007, 11:44:56 pm » |
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Well, yes, it could be that to, I guess..
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« Reply #11 on: December 16, 2007, 11:55:43 pm » |
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Whatever it is, he's not going to land it.
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« Reply #12 on: December 26, 2007, 05:36:26 am » |
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I couldn't agree more. This man is clearly insane and should be admitted to the asylum post haste!
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« Reply #13 on: December 26, 2007, 12:45:36 pm » |
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« Reply #14 on: December 27, 2007, 12:49:36 am » |
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No problem, Vienna. I'm not into the culture so much, but I have Motocross friends that have told/shown me the innings. As well as me playing some computer games on the subject.
There's not much capes going on though. It'd probably jam itself in the wheels. Never a pretty sight. Wheels is to capes as kryptonite is to Superman.
Thunderhead, November 15th of '58. All was well, another day saved, when his cape snagged on a missile fin. Stratogale, April 23rd, '57. Cape caught in a jet turbine. Metaman, express elevator, Dynaguy, snagged on takeoff, Splashdown, sucked into a vortex. No capes Dahling! *Couldn't help myself  * |
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"And here for the first time in my life I saw my beloved Mississippi River, dry in the summer haze, low water, with its big rank smell like the raw body of America itself." Jack Kerouac ~ 'On the Road'
Oh how I long to return to my Mighty Mississippi River.
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« Reply #15 on: December 27, 2007, 01:45:06 am » |
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You know, there is a solution. Get yourself some really small wheels!  These awesome machines started the small-wheel shopping bike market, they have front and rear suspension and they trick out really nicely for a grand town ride. Why am I enamoured of this funny bike? Because those tiny wheels let you ride wearing a full-length goth duster cape-o-doom, that's why! Useless for stunts though. |
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