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Up at grizedale at the weekend, very busy with all sorts of folk - yadda yadda..walking int the main courtyard with wife and reptiles when a bloke on a transition manuals past us in to the square, he then endo turns and fakeys out of it before wheelie-ing up to he front of the visitor centre, popping his front tyre against the wall before hopping back and out again with the 'fakey-turn*'. Now I admit I was torn, very nice skills on display but busy cafe area, lots of kids, bit show offy......?
So STW now is your chance to cast judgement [for the four hundredth time today], was that man a ...
HERO or TOSSER.....
*copyright stabiliser stunt describing ltd.
Tosser
tosser obviously....you should have pushed him over, wee'd in his shoes and then hoofed him in the slats whilst waving some bombers and claiming to be Ronnie Pickering!! 😆
Too much show for hero status, so tosser by default.
I'd wish I could do it so would settle for 'Git' as it implies envy without malice.
was it chris smith?
http://www.pinkbike.com/news/chris-smith-signs-with-transition-bikes-uk-2015.html
Tosser. Save it for the skatepark.
Wow that's what he's doing after leaving the lib dems, who knew?
(No it wasn't)
Sounds all right to me
Just out of curiosity - all those biking vids of trials riders doing stunts in the street etc. Always lots of people around. Are they tossers or heroes?
What was he wearing?>
Is there a "sorry but I can't muster the energy to care"/"live and let live"/"did anyone die?" choice?
Shoes and a hat and some other stuff.
Al, I'm afraid not it's one or the other
So a guy riding a bike quite skilfully is a tosser in some minds?
How very odd.
Is there a "sorry but I can't muster the energy to care"/"live and let live"/"did anyone die?" choice?
not posting?
Jealousy is a terrible thing
You lost me after 'transition' you went into some bizarre language after that.
I'm going with 'Hero'. He was clearly very skilled, enjoying himself on a bike and hurting no-one. I'd have admired and maybe even complimented.
And today's my birthday, so I get to be right. 😛
😆
Wonderful stuff! How old was he? Was he in brightly coloured enduro gear?
It's the sort of stuff that anyone with a reasonable level of skill should be able to achieve. Not hugely impressive; I think if he did it at a skatepark no one would bat an eyelid. So a bit of a show off/tosser.
However, if he was a short, portly mid 40's IT consultant in full enduro gear then I'd say he's a hero! I mean, I think it's the sort of thing most of the above dream of doing; especially at a busy family hot spot.
hero
More skills than me = tosser 😀
That sort of thing doesn't really bother me. What does is the number of people hopping over the fence to walk through the wild flower meadow in that car park at Glentress in order to go to the toilet. Grr.
hero
jam bo - Member
Is there a "sorry but I can't muster the energy to care"/"live and let live"/"did anyone die?" choice?
not posting?
Oh teh ironing!
You lost me after 'transition' you went into some bizarre language after that.
This. Not got a first clue what you just said.
Al, settle down, it's a different cafe
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Oh teh ironing!
indeed.
Sorry but endo turns went out with Jez Avery.
More importantly, what was the cake like?
DOn't know, yesterday we had a picnic in the playground cos we were going out for tea. But i did have the fruit cake on the weekend of the PMBA enduro and it was dry as a witches tit. (which I've just added to my excuse list for that event).
I wish I could manual.
Just realised, I missed the corrected response. Does the cafe serve pudding? If so a WOPP (withdrawal of pudding privileges) was probably the right course of action.
Reminds me of the day i was showing off at mabie cafe. They had built their own bunny hop gauge. I cleared the first couple of heights quite easily on my mtb.
Went for a 3rd attempt at an even higher height with my mates watching.
As i pushed down to then pull up my feet slipped off the pedals, my arse cracked up the poop chute straight onto the end of my very expensive ti railed bonty saddle and snapped it completely (The saddle not my poop chute). I went straight through the bunny hop guage and destroyed it. Then i rolled straight into a parked camper van.
I think i got away without anyone noticing tbh
Hero
NB 'fakie'
Big hero in my book. Wish I could do any one of those skills!
obvs tosser if any children's faces were removed
otherwise, fair play - if you can't pull a front flip from flat you have to go with what you've got 🙄
Why the hate? I guess he should only practise his skills in a darkened warehouse then where nobody might see*?
It was watching show-offs and skillful riders as a kid that got me into trials/street riding and ultimately made me want to push my MTB'ing skills, not becasue I wanted to pose, but because it is fun, and challenging and the thrill of [i]finally [/i]managing to pull off a new move or learning a new skill is so rewarding.
*The irony being that 99% of the practise and riding was/is done where nobody sees it, and you might think he's 'showing off' where as in his head he's probably just 'riding' and couldn't give two hoots if anyone sees.
I think you're progressing into sad geekery by knowing all the terms. I assume it was impressive but I can't be bothered to look up what he actually did!
some people actually enjoy riding their bikes. Saying that I wouldn't class him as a tosser or a hero though, just a [I]rider[/I].
some people actually enjoy riding their bikes
I don't.
Obviously I'm jealous of the skills, and I'm not sure I'd be so showy if I could do them, but he's obviously put the hours in so fair play to him.
Why the hate?
A busy CHILDREN filled area ....
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Just having fun; neither
All fair play until this one "popping his front tyre against the wall before hopping back" that doesn't sound very cool to me.
Oh come on people, this isn't some session on the analysts couch, seize hold of a side like some kind of frenzied terrier and rend it asunder with wild ferocity, devoid of reason or fear
Tosser, but that doesn't mean I think he's a bad person.
How big was his willy?
I'll ask the wife (for an estimate)
Hero - because the only person he was trying to impress (himself and maybe some other oiks) will have been impressed, so thats all that counts.
Enduhero. Or Endohero. Or something.
Not bothered either way but lolz @ TheLittlestHobo's story! Bet your mates were on the floor laughing! Quality punchline too, well done.
I doubt very much he was trying to impress you, He prob did it to turn the "Laydeez hedz" and maybe get a "SKILLZ" comment from an admiring young Kid, If my 11 Year Old had seen something like he'd have been made up.
Followed sharply by a "Dad can you pull off tricks like that" followed by a "OH Why not" i mean, have you tried impressing kids these days on bikes, it takes some pulling off i can tell you, its fine while they are bobbling about on the Greens, but when they get a taste for the Blue's its not long before they get on the Reds.
Live and let live,
I Sauntered past Arc 1800 in the Alps earlier this season and thought as it was quiet i'd ride down the Galvanised staircase to the Cafe, Imagine my surprise when the silence was shatarred by what sounded like 1,000 horses hoofs galloping up an escalator at the same time.
Every table was occupied and although no one actually tried to Kill me they very nearly did as the Cajun Chicken Salad gave me proper indegestion due to the fact that every one just sat staring at me.
Very embarassing, needless to say, 3 days later sat in the same courtyard some bafoon came hurtling down the very same steps and i made a right song and dance about it,
Teh Ironing.............
Someone was doing that at Degla earlier this year. I was thinking wannabe try hard, looked closer it Was ratboy. I think he's allowed to.
If he was seriously showing no consideration and putting people at risk of harm = instant tosser. If only person at risk was himself - not a hero but I am envious!
Some time ago a guy rode past me to get on to the Lower Cliff climb at Cannock. He did it by rear wheel hopping onto a large (18" - 24") log and then wheelied off. No fuss or grandstanding - went past very rapidly indeed. If you are on here dude - nice riding and I am seriously jealous!
neither a hero or a tosser, just riding along the way he see's fit and if that's his fun, so be it, I'm sure lots of on lookers also thought it was good.
Wheelies are completely pointless unless you have an adoring crowd of pensioners and children to watch you, so Grizedale courtyard sounds ideal.
As I don't know him and he has way more skillz than me, he's clearly a tosser!!
But if he was one of my riding buddies he'd be a hero and it'd be a whooping and a whaling and high fives all round. I'd then pretend that i could also do stuff like that if i had the correct tyres or my gout wasn't playing up or something.....
Tosser
Clearly skilled ams enjoying himself. Providing he wasn't sneering and bigging himself up fair play. I can't even wheelie properly.
Did he stop for cake afterwards? I'm on the fence till I find out, and as for you dear sir please don't use the phrase "yadda, yadda" ever. 😉
I think some people get a bit excited with a crowd. At mayhem the amount of grown men I have to ask not to ride through the trade area(kids, people milling about) at full pelt and do a 4 inch bunny hop over the cable cover is amazing.
He's more of a hero than I am, I don't even know what a fakie is.
Any fit secretary lasses in the cafe?
I vote some hero messing around on their bike.
I certainly feel conscious at times that i could be viewed as showing off, end up holding back a bit, when in fact i'm doing far less "showing off" than if i were on my own.
Bikes are toys at the end of the day, go play.
It sounds like he was riding on just one wheel for quite a long time and turning around also on just one wheel, so I would be impressed and a little envious of his sense of balance and one-ness with his bicycle. Which would definitely place him in the hero of the two provided options.
I don't think I would have been impressed with the brand of bicycle he was doing it on though, they seem to be quite commonplace nowadays and nothing to be proud of.
I am a bike snob.
Who knows, one of those kids may be inspired by his antics and eventually become the next Danny MacAskill.
Also, I am totally 'that guy' and I don't want to have to come to terms with being a tosser.
To the 10 year old in me a hero. But obviously a tosser to the jealous middle aged unskilled slightly fat bloke constantly lamenting a wasted youth and regretting not spending all those hours i spent playing with lego and watching Danger Mouse out on my bike instead, learning something I could impress some random people 30 years later - even if they did think i was a tosser.
Nice stealth "****"/"Good guy" poll. 😉
Do you even ride bro?
Only yo' mamma. Bro.
BTW she says your tea's ready
Hero! and some Free entertainment for the kiddies 🙂
What is a fakey ?
riding backwards
Why 'fakey' and not just 'riding backwards'?
why wheelie instead of front wheel power assisted lift?
Why bunny-hop instead of 'convulsive body and somehow get bike airborne'?
Sounds like something I'd try. So tosser.
Ok whos gonna own up to doing it 🙂
Well he entertained and didn't harm anyone so alls good.
May even have motivated some young kid to have a go and become a famous rider - never know.
But heros to far up the scale that's for people who help others with no regards to their self.