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Monday, May 7, 2007

Crowd Pleaser












This dude (I assume he's one of the Hard Times Bike Club guys... you know, the menacing-looking hipsters on tall bikes) always gets a big cheer at Minneapolis' annual Mayday Parade when he somersaults his rig. He does it by getting up a head of steam, slamming on his front brake, and tucking his head. Sweet!

1 comment:

Pinchie said...

Cool. If you look close, you can see he's got two sets of brakes on the front wheel, so he really grabs both hard in order to go over.

Could do it alot easier and with one hand by mounting up a massive-rotor disk brake. But those Black Label dudes wouldn;t be caught dead with disk brakes... until they start getting mounted on Magnas and hitting the salvage yard.