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Friday, June 27, 2008

Intl' Wheelies #31: The triumphant return of a dubious regular PFN feature

This little Finnish dude can sure ride one wheel beautifully. It's enough to make you wonder: Ever thought of taking up the unicycle, little dude?




Also this: You are perpetuating a terrible stereotype by using such crappy metal for your soundtrack, little dude. Just saying.

An unsolicited tip: Try the Hellacopters, or the Hellbillies. Heck, Maria Kalaniemi would work, if you want something a little closer to home and nearer to the ground. Something to blend a little better with the local architecture.

1 comment:

Toby - Northern Light Blog said...

Finns love heavy metal, don't ask me why but they do. It might have something to do with general whiteness of the country and I don't mean the snow.

I was driving home from ice climbing through some dull, little, middle of nowhere town in central Finland in January, and we passed a kid just cruising along the cycle path doing a wheely for maybe 200-300 metres on an old granny bike. It was -15 and there was snow everywhere, and he made it look effortless. It was one of the most oddly graceful things I've seen. It also made me think: thank f*** I wasn't born somewhere so boring that you get that good at wheelies.