Bike Gymnastics???

its called a trackstand. Not sure how to do it though

no, its like a gymnist on the hosre, but a bike rider on a bike, they do head stands and pedal backwards and let the handle bars spin, its so awsome **** watch "Quicksilver" its got Kevin Bacon, its from the 80s
thanks though

any one know?

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Originally posted by weiner0stick
no, its like a gymnist on the hosre, but a bike rider on a bike, they do head stands and pedal backwards and let the handle bars spin, its so awsome **** watch "Quicksilver" its got Kevin Bacon, its from the 80s
thanks though

any one know?

Its called freestyling. It is mostly done on the BMX style bikes. Watch the credit part of the movie of RAD to see some really cool stuff that they did back then. Those guys were the pioneers of it. Mostly now a days they only do a Street Park & the half pipes. To bad because the tricks they are doing now had their basis in the original freestyling.

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Originally posted by SLS
Its called freestyling. It is mostly done on the BMX style bikes. Watch the credit part of the movie of RAD to see some really cool stuff that they did back then. Those guys were the pioneers of it. Mostly now a days they only do a Street Park & the half pipes. To bad because the tricks they are doing now had their basis in the original freestyling.

Also known as flatland...

Cheers,
Troy

and Trials,
I have the utmost respect for those who can handle a bike to do these tricks.

Brian

no no no, i am thankful for that info, but yes flatland is on a extra long bmx 20inch bike, im talking about a track bike 26 or 27 inch but the same tricks, is it still called the same thing, does anyone know?
thanks ws

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Originally posted by weiner0stick
no no no, i am thankful for that info, but yes flatland is on a extra long bmx 20inch bike, im talking about a track bike 26 or 27 inch but the same tricks, is it still called the same thing, does anyone know?
thanks ws

Long story short (hopefully)- freestyling began basically with the BMX bikers. Who started it off exactly is debatable. So we started off with endo's, cherry pickers, lawn mowers, and the list goes on.

All of a sudden people were coming to the races not only for the race but the tricks. So add ons became popular, a new headset so you could spin your bars around without the cables tangling, stands for different areas of the bike, a double handle bar, etc... Now companies like Haro, GT, Redline, and others had another version of bike to sell besides the garden variety & the updated racing ones. The best way for them to sell it was roaming road shows, a few magazines on the subject, and a few freestyling contests which started adding in Quarter pipes & half pipes.

Sorry I can't remember which came first but I would swear it was a gentleman called R.L. Osborn in one of the mags, started doing tricks on a Mountain Bike. Needless to say - almost all the tricks done on the regular ones he pulled off on the Mountain Bike. After that to my knowledge at least two movies came out using regular 10 speeds, flipping the handle bars up and doing the tricks.

For a lot of us that were there went it basically started & followed it - freestyling will always be the correct term. Tricks done on & around a bike, (it doesn't matter what bike) is freestyling. The exact names of the tricks you are describing - I used to do them, but I can not think of the names given to them.

By the way to clarify my post above - I love the stuff they do on the street courses & half pipes (i.e. XGames). I just wish they would have kept around the freestyling also. Sorry call it nostalgia.

I tried looking up the trick's via Google and didn't find much. I did find this link that contains more of the history than I listed above from way back in 84.

http://www.notfreestylin.com/june84.html

Do you mean like this?http://hem.passagen.se/a_pieber/hansa7.html

(More pics here: http://hem.passagen.se/a_pieber/gallery.html )

I don't think there's a particular name for what you're referring to. In the circus world it would be generally known as a cycling act. They use fixed wheel machines, which can be ridden much like a unicycle to do a range of tricks that the average BMX wouldn't do.

check out the book 100 years of schwinn,freestyle is bmx..
circus performers in the 40's were doing these things.

Yeah this is what I am talking about, Apperently thier is no name, it is too randumb I guess thanks alost Rat Face those pics give me enough info to build a balancing machine
danke
ws

sorry, sls but you couldn't be more wrong... "fixed gear" bikes were the first bikes that had wheels of the same size (before that were the velocipedes with the big front wheel...)

there are videos on file at the library of congress taken by thomas edison in the late 1800s that show a man doing "freestyle" tricks almost exactly like the ones in the movie "quicksilver"

RL osbourne was "rad" and all in his day, but as the old saying goes "nothing new under the sun" couldn't be more true with fixed gear freestyle...