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Very droll, but anyway please help me out with something before I work myself into an interweb rage, do you actually believe that pile of wank you wrote or were you just being inflammatory for the laughs?
Ha, I didn't know where to start with a reply to that latest one, I was just getting to a point where I felt a bit embarrassed for us both. I wish I could feel so right about a subject I know nothing about.
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Middle class sanctimony at it's finest = The bit where you try and understand BMXing using mathematics…
To be fair everything that a BMXer does is can be expressed using applied mathematics. However if you went to go and see pros putting in a show I'm sure it would be slightly disappointing, and against the whole ethos of the sport, to see them whip out a note pad and calculate the correct launch speed and angle of attack to pull of a certain trick. I have never really followed BMX but I understand that the stunts that those guys pull off are based upon years of trial and error, often accompanied by injury, that gives them the experience to push the boundaries of their sport further. However I do also see that MDCC tester has a point, as the closing van significantly increased the guys launch speed it may have been prudent to do some basic calculations. Can we drop this now and get back to finding funny shit that I can look at to procrastinate from work?
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As it's Friday.. hopefully not a repost...
To summarise argument: Old men who don't know anything about BMX should not pass any judgement, and should never call Colin Winkleman (R.I.P.) stupid for doing what he did.
The End.
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and should never call Colin Winkleman (R.I.P.) stupid for doing what he did.
The End.
Errr, why not? It was fuckin ridiculous
Don't need to have too many sandwiches in the box to realise that if you go up a ramp at speed, you gain air, hangtime is gonna be longer than the time it takes for the van to whizz past underneath you....
Fuck me, Jonny Ball's job's safe!
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I dont think mdcc_tester is talking about BMXing. He talking about the execution of a major one off stunt. Something which requires a different approach, regardless of the sport you come from.
He may as well have been on those roller skies, that cross country skiiers (middleclass one and all) use in the summer. The planning would need to be the same.
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"Gain air"?
"hangtime"?
Nice one dad...Until you know the subject pipe down...
"Old men who don't know anything about BMX should not pass any judgement"
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Looks to me like he wouldn't have landed it even if the van was slower, would have been very close / if not miss the down ramp, and he wasn't even in position to land it anyway. (Though I know nothing of BMX).
Let's all be honest though, if he had of landed it would probably be in the "epic win" thread.
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"Gain air"?
"hangtime"?
Nice one dad...Until you know the subject pipe down...
"Old men who don't know anything about BMX should not pass any judgement"
Sonny, I had a BMX while you were still a spunkbubble in your Dad's ballbag!
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Having a BMX is not the same as riding BMX, but whatevs... this is getting a bit silly and ruining a thread.
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Can one of these "kids" please help us "old men" understand what judgement THEY pass on that failed stunt?
"Good effort"
"The guy is a legend he can do no wrong"?What is it about the attitude, approach, expertise, skill and courage of BMXing that makes taking unnecessary life-threatening risks acceptable?
In the meantime can someone please meme-up the kissing couple from the Vancouver riots?
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Pisti, in his younger hairy'er days.(...or Nichole Kidman. Always a tricky one)
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should never call Colin Winkleman (R.I.P.) stupid for doing what he did
This sentence neatly summarises everything which is wrong with your position. I'll take your word for it that he was once an admirable BMX rider, and we know that he killed himself some time after that stupid stunt went exactly as wrong as anybody with O level maths could have told him it would. You need separate your admiration for his prior feats in BMX and your sadness about his untimely demise from the stunt itself. In isolation, and without the emotional baggage you're bringing to it from a combination of hero worship and a misplaced sense that his stunt fail was some kind of act of martyrdom in the cause of jumping, the stunt was idiotic in it's lack of proper planning.
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This sentence neatly summarises everything which is wrong with your position. I'll take your word for it that he was once an admirable BMX rider, and we know that he killed himself some time after that stupid stunt went exactly as wrong as anybody with O level maths could have told him it would. You need separate your admiration for his prior feats in BMX and your sadness about his untimely demise from the stunt itself. In isolation, and without the emotional baggage you're bringing to it from a combination of hero worship and a misplaced sense that his stunt fail was some kind of act of martyrdom in the cause of jumping, the stunt was idiotic in it's lack of proper planning.
You need to separate yourself from being a prick.
I never liked Colins riding, but he was a good guy, not the type to sit behind a keyboard and speak ill of the dead.
A lot of assumptions and condescending in that post, I'm not going to lower myself to any more insults or arguments so how about you leave it now?
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