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I think you ment to say Arron Ross, or Chase Hawk....?
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has no one else spotted this apparent roof-top track on this fiat ad....would love to know where that is!!! I'm sure Yorgo has been there already, no doubt with a bevvy of bony models in tow.
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Yeppers..
Gold Award for Television & Cinema Advertising/Television
commercials over 45 seconds 1980
Directed by Hugh Hudson this commercial for Fiat Strada, was created by Paul Weiland and David Horry. The commercial was inspired by the balletic use of Minis in the film The Italian Job, the ad filmed on the famous rooftop test track of Fiat's Turin factory, was only broadcast in the UK three times but was highly popular - much more so than the car itself. http://edward.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1210_rewind/thework/bios/033.php -
winston I'm one of those who have poo-pooed tricks on fixed bikes...more specifically track bikes.....it's not a case of jealous argument, my point would be: if you are genuinely interested in doing tricks you would be much better served by a bmx, trials or circus bike....you're seriously limiting yourself on a track bike......consequently you will never be able to achieve what you can on a bike specifically built for the purpose, therefore your tricks will never look / be as impressive.
Trying to use an object not for it's intended design is part of the appeal. No one would every deny that a BMX or trails bike is better for tricks., but you can't actually get around on a BMX unless you live in a small town, (or lived in central London and never left). Like I said before many of the tricks are quite different and as with anything should be appreciated for for what they are.
You may think the tricks are crap (visually speaking and what impresses you), that is of course an opinion which is totally valid as I can say I like the colour blue and you hate it. You can not say that the act of doing fixed trick is crap without missing the point really doing tricks, it is the challenge and enjoyment of doing the trick, not comparing it to tricks done on other types of bikes, it's working with what you have got, having fun may be not going out just to do tricks but be out and about and able to do tricks. Many peoples would say it is stupid to ride a bike with one gear because if you can have gears why not.
BMX racing started off from people racing small bikes round a rough track then evolved into racing then split into freestyle and racing. Some where along the line some people started riding bikes at motor bike trails (some rode BMX some rode mbt) contest as well. This resulted in BMX and trails bikes. Mountain bike evolved from old cruisers then racing started and now you have jump specific mbt bikes. Now to start off with what a mbt could do compared to a bmx was rubbish, now there is some overlap, where bmx and mbt jumping overlap bmx still tends to be better in terms of pure trick list but there are many things that mbt riders can do the bmxers can not. I would personally say I would prefer to watch BMX over mbt jumping any day, but I would not say mbt tricks are point less because many things you can do better on a bmx imo. Things evolve and diversify.
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I'm not against it at all..... what you say about the evolution of the bikes and scenes is interesting though, but if the track bike evolved into a bike better suited for doing tricks, it would evolve into something that already exists....the circus or artistic cylcling bike.....so why not just go out and build / buy a circus bike or some kinda hybrid? if you had a flip-flop hub, you could ride around town then flip the wheel over for doing tricks....unfortunately circus bikes aren't "cool" right now.......let's just wait for NY or SF to discover them first, then we'll watch a dvd and all run out and get one....
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MrSmith that's the roof of the old fiat factory in turin
hah, I'm from turin...
funny to see my hometown quoted here..
and what's more I rode that track with my track bike! (just few laps before getting kicked off by security guards on scooters...)
was fun!
the italian job was filmed on the roof of another building..
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as mentioned before those guys really were "awesome" in the true sense of the word.....nothing I've seen on trackbikes comes "like" "even" 10% their skill level.
sadly though, as mentioned before they didn't even attempt those notoriously dangerous and difficult tricks: "standing still" or making your back wheel skid....losers!
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winston I'm not against it at all..... what you say about the evolution of the bikes and scenes is interesting though, but if the track bike evolved into a bike better suited for doing tricks, it would evolve into something that already exists....the circus or artistic cylcling bike.....
Who know it may end up evolving into something very similar, but with an arospok.
The artistic riding seems to be big on main land Europe. Never really seen it over here only on a youtube clip from Germany.
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I know of one guy that does it, he's a professional acrobat and there must be one or two others, however unlike polo or speedway that do have continuous and pre-existing scenes, circus cycling, or whatever you want to call it, probably would be an original and pioneering scene if it took off in London.
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