Comments on: wow. just wow.

wow. just wow.

anotherpanacea — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:28:48 -0800

Benito Ross, Vince Hermance, and Kenny Belaey make the insurmountable look insignificant: watching bike trials will make your toes tingle.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:46:53 -0800

I kept saying "Well, that's enough of this jackass shit", and watching some more anyway. It's amazing how old this doesn't get.

By: Ironmouth

Ironmouth — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:02:44 -0800

Those guys are nuts. I remember watching Hans Rey do his thing back in the 90's. While jumping off shit, he was wearing a beard on only one side of his face. crazy.

By: lonefrontranger

lonefrontranger — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:07:03 -0800

awesome. I just got home from a cyclocross race where I was having trouble riding a fast high berm without washing out my front wheel on the exit. These guys kill me.

By: NeonSurge

NeonSurge — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:22:37 -0800

While some guys stay in the cyclo trials world, most of the current world motorcycle trials competitors (including current world champ Toni Bou and ex-word champ Adam Raga) are ex-cycle trials champions. Trials is the next big "extreme" sport to take off, I'm convinced of that. I can't believe it's still one of the least commercial professional sports on the planet.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:24:10 -0800

Mountain goats on wheels. Of course I've seen and tried the motorized version, resulting in my worst motorcycle injury ever, but doing it solely on leg power? Wow. You know you're getting old when all you can think of while watching crash vids is how many months it would take to recover from each crash. Great post.

By: wsg

wsg — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:25:14 -0800

I have never been able to watch that kind of bone-splintering injury stuff.

By: jonson

jonson — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:39:57 -0800

i can't stop watching... seriously, some one of you that lives in L.A. come over to my house & unplug my computer because I can't look away and I so desperately want to look away.

By: greenskpr

greenskpr — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:09:01 -0800

I was so into Evel Knievel jumping snake river canyon,etc. as a kid. He was the coolest. These guys are super precise.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:09:38 -0800

Those nasty men should be in jail for treating innocent bicycles like that.

By: ProfLinusPauling

ProfLinusPauling — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:37:51 -0800

Some day, people are gonna be buying expensive athletic shoes because of advertisements featuring these guys.

By: unSane

unSane — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:25:39 -0800

Ryan Leech is the hero in my house. The Kranked 6 segment is one of the greatest bit of mtb action ever filmed. By all accounts, the nicest guy too. Trials is a wonderful thing to watch with your kids. You may not agree with them about much but you can all agree that was a fucking INSANE move.

By: HappyHippo

HappyHippo — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:35:55 -0800

Did that Ryan dude just ride across a fucking chain?!?! IMHO proof that there are aliens among us. nice post!

By: brent_h

brent_h — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:13:43 -0800

I've always wanted to get into trials, but at this point, I think I am too old/fat to do any of that stuff, so I will stick with downhilling Leech is unreal. this is one of my favorite clips of him, the part where he rides across a rickety top of a gate is insane.

By: Lucie

Lucie — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:26:35 -0800

Most of those videos were taken in the city centre - yes, Canberra really is that deserted.

By: Lucie

Lucie — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:27:54 -0800

the 'watching bike trials' links, anyway.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:52:18 -0800

Today's kids always think they invented this stuff. Watch Ot Pi jump over things in 1991.