Thursday, March 29, 2007

Biketainment Now! - "Bikecar"


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PORTLAND, OR - "Bikecar" is a snowboarding film with a twist. The cast and crew ride to all their destinations across Idaho, Washington and Oregon on a four human powered vehile, the bikecar. Watch the trailer and buy the DVD here at CrankMyChain!.

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You can see "Bikecar" on the bigscreen 2PM this Saturday (March 31st) at the Clinton Street Theatre as part of the Longbaugh film festival.

Buy Bikecar $19.95 - free shipping!





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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

SlopeStyle Biking Pays a Visit



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North Plains, Ore.- Turns out Carl is right. The Max does go past the Zoo and there are towns on the other side of that hill. So we rode out to Hillsboro and pedaled out past Grandma's farm to the Hind Sight MX Park to witness some Slope Style cycling at the Wham Bam Thank You Jam. This sport combines mountian biking, bmx, and moto-cross. The athletic talent is awesome. I'm sure these guys don't have to worry about getting to the gym but they may have to pay the chiropractor a visit or two.

This is a just a taste of the sport which is usually played on the side of a mountian. From the amount fancy cameras I saw there I bet you can get plenty of great video and photos on the internet. You can start at SlopeStyle Promoter Aaron Lutze's Match Videozine.



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Monday, December 18, 2006

Can You Do This? MTB Stunts & Trials Biking




I know nothing about this video except that dude knows how to handle his mountain bike (more correctly referred to as a trials bike).
The band Cake provides the soundtrack.

Enjoy the cyclenography. Please try this at home and send me your videos.

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Thursday, December 07, 2006

HiWheel Bike Crash

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Watch as the legendary Jack Castor wipes out while riding downhill with his legs over the handle bars of his HiWheel bike. Castor has riden accross the US on a HiWheel bike and prefers to ride even the steepest decesents with his legs over the handle bars. Here is his rationale as quoted from bikeroute.com

"Coasting the hills with the legs over the bars serves a
couple of purposes. It takes energy to pedal down the hill,
even when not resisting the pedals. Trying to retard the
bike with the pedals can really put the legs to work. On
the other hand, hanging the legs over the bars allows the
rider to completely relax the legs. They get a nice rest,
and are ready to go vigorously again. I have twice coasted
nine miles, and once six miles, on an ordinary. I find that
coasting legs over is the most pleasurable thing I do on the
ordinary."

In this case it was not so pleasurable. It seems the rubber came off his front wheel but take a look for yourself.

If you'd like to find out more about HiWheel bikes and Jack Castor be sure to vist bikeroute.com.

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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Mountian Bike CRASH at 172 KMPH


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Check out this crash! Dude is going like 110 MPH down some Japanese lava mountian when he hits a bump and his bicycle breaks in HALF. Talk about road rash. Can anybody translate the text?

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