Rule No1 when trying to look cool.....

[Brommie77]

Morning all - thought this would make some of you laugh as much as it did me.

Near the end of my longer summer commute is a long medium gradient. I have been pushing myself over the past few weeks to improve my fitness, and increase my average speed up it. Its an easy crawl up in low gear, but I was really 'flying' up it today at about 15mph which is my best yet. Please bear in mind I am on a 2 speed Brompton.

About half way up is a lad about 18ish pushing a fancy mountain bike up the same hill. As I neared him he turned round and saw me - he obviously wasn't going to be overtaken whilst walking by a folder! so he hopped on his bike started riding, as I overtook him he tried to pull a wheelie (presumably an attempt at looking cool), stopped mid wheelie, and keeled over sideways.

Has to be said he caught himself very well, and managed to look reasonably composed, but I nearly had to stop due to laughing. suspect he wont try that again.

 

[Spinney]

Very good! I think I would have fallen off laughing!

 

[guitarpete247]

There's nothing quite as cool as a face full of gravel whilst lying underneath a BSO.

I watch kids in the playground popping wheelies on their way to the bike shed. Some can, others basically manage to get the front wheel up for a micro-second. A gas pipe BSO is not the most nimble of machines on which to be performing bicycle gymnastics.

I would have loved to have seen your 'lads' effort. You don't ride with a camera do you by any chance. How about asking him to do it again but this time for You-tube, if you see him again

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[Brommie77]

I would have loved to have seen your 'lads' effort. You don't ride with a camera do you by any chance. How about asking him to do it again but this time for You-tube, if you see him again

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'fraid not - I am consdering getting one, but tbh I never really have a need for it at the moment (apart from episodes like this morning!!)

I'll keep an eye out next week and ask him to have another go while I film him with my 'phone

 

[cyberknight]

pmsl !

I had a youth once trying to sprint in the middle of a road up a hill on a sub 10 mph section trying to scare me , i just airzounded the little turnip .
He jumped out of his skin !!