Via funnykidvid
We should all feel happy of ourselves.
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Via Jimmy Hickey
With the wonderful advent of sports/action camera technology we get to see the first person account of someone landing a jump wrong, getting thrown off their bike, and groaning in the bushes. What a time to be alive.
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Via EnduroLife.com
The Impossible Climb Andler in Belgium is a dirt bike challenge that has taken place 20 times, and it has never seen one totally successful attempt. Dirt bikers compete to try to get to the top of the incredibly steep hill, and usually get banged up in the process. In this 2019 event one rider got their front wheel across the finish line, but again, no one has ever officially made it to the top.
Twitter user @SteBurke44 is out here restoring people's faith in humanity. It turns out that a bike he'd purchased off someone had been stolen, and was actually worth $1800. As luck would have it, he was contacted by the original owner of the bike and able to get it back to him. It's moments like these that remind us there are still good people out there just trying to help keep the world's fits of chaos relatively manageable.
It's not good business practice to abuse the person you're trying to buy from, and it's even worse stealing practice to tell a dude you're gonna steal from him then ask for their address after the fact. There are entitled people out there who just think they can have stuff, like this entitled dad who wanted free art and childcare.
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Via Thomas Mason
This bicyclist, who was going the wrong way, hit a pedestrian who wasn't using the crosswalk. There's an argument to be made about who was more wrong, but these guys didn't have it. They had a very short conversation about their predicament and went their separate ways.
Via Eurosport 1
It was the world championship road race in Yorkshire. German Dario Gomez Becerra from Colombia had a catastrophic bike failure that left him on the side of the road. He expected to get picked up and...didn't. And the camera guy just followed him while the announcers talked about how sad it as. It's kinda hard to watch. You just want to give the guy a hug and say it's gonna be okay.
Alright, yeah that's pretty badass. Nothing like jumping over a highly televised, world renowned sporting event. People need to jump over more events. Thank goodness he made it. Who knows how many people would hate this guy if he just flopped onto the course into oodles of bicyclists.
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Ready for some classic fails? Like, really though? These aren't child's play. These are people disastrously biking down stairs, screwing up dives and flipping trucks down ravines. Alright, here's your medicine. If you want to see some outrageous stuff, here are close calls where people escaped ruin by moments.
Dad got fired up for this email after his daughter told him she might spend her after-tax income on a bike that's another way of saying you have too much money to blow. His brutal response has since gone viral, and people are all about praising him for his work.
If you need a refresh course in what makes this flashy bike so ridiculous, check out that comedian's viral Twitter thread that breaks down all of its absurdity here!
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Via TheUprightpool
We don't know a whole lot about motorcycle drag racing but the enduring truth here is that this is cool as hell.
We don't know where it comes from, but sometimes when you see someone you like, there's a certain, primal urge to impress them in the most idiotic ways possible. It's incredibly stupid, but for a lot of us, if a hot person is walking down the street, our next logical thought is "I bet she'd like to see how high I can jump." Here's a collection of the dumb things people tried, which for the record, sometimes worked.
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It's almost refreshing to see the lock finally win.
