okay... I hope this isn't too literal of a strange observation for this tribe... but on my recent trip to Costa Rica... I noticed that out of the bicycles I saw people riding... a disproportionate amount of them were 80's style freestyle bikes... with pegs on the wheels(for doing tricks and "riding" people) and rotors (device that allows you to spin your handlebars in a circle indefinitely without tangling up your brake cables).
do the old kids bikes from the US get jacked and sent to other countries? these were expensive bikes at the time... easily 300-500 bucks! maybe there are simply crafty businessmen who know a good market with the stuff that we would consider outdated junk...
I would be okay with that... except that freestylin' really went out with the explosion of skateboarding... so these kids are riding around like they're hot shit... but that whole style has gone the way of breakdancing and neon checkered sunglasses...
one time...
when I was 12... I did exactly like they said in the freestylin' magazine article "how to throw your own underground skate and freestyle contest!" problem is... that it wasn't until after I dropped off 50 flyers at hot topic (which I thought only had one location in the world) did I realize that I fucked up the date and put sunday the 30th... when in fact... sunday was the 31st...
I showed up on sunday... ready to totally rock a contest with hundreds of kids... but there were only 3 of them. they said that the previous day... hundreds of kids had shown up... and that they didn't know what to do... and no one knew how to get ahold of me... so someone took charge and they held the contest without me...
my life may have been different if I had been there that day... but instead I joined the chess team... and helped to bring two trophies to our school... which no one gave a quack about.
anyways... I'm finished now...
thanks for listening!
do the old kids bikes from the US get jacked and sent to other countries? these were expensive bikes at the time... easily 300-500 bucks! maybe there are simply crafty businessmen who know a good market with the stuff that we would consider outdated junk...
I would be okay with that... except that freestylin' really went out with the explosion of skateboarding... so these kids are riding around like they're hot shit... but that whole style has gone the way of breakdancing and neon checkered sunglasses...
one time...
when I was 12... I did exactly like they said in the freestylin' magazine article "how to throw your own underground skate and freestyle contest!" problem is... that it wasn't until after I dropped off 50 flyers at hot topic (which I thought only had one location in the world) did I realize that I fucked up the date and put sunday the 30th... when in fact... sunday was the 31st...
I showed up on sunday... ready to totally rock a contest with hundreds of kids... but there were only 3 of them. they said that the previous day... hundreds of kids had shown up... and that they didn't know what to do... and no one knew how to get ahold of me... so someone took charge and they held the contest without me...
my life may have been different if I had been there that day... but instead I joined the chess team... and helped to bring two trophies to our school... which no one gave a quack about.
anyways... I'm finished now...
thanks for listening!
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Re: freestylin'!
Sun, June 11, 2006 - 7:27 PMhi jeremy. sorry i never posted back to you on this one. (how rude of me!)
i can't picture the kind of bikes you're talking about but that's interesting. of course i know the break-dance culture, etc. and remember when skateboarding first got big in the 70's-80's.
when i read your post, an advertisement for a bicycle appears. it creeps me out. are the ads that sophisticated that they can match up with people's posts? i don't think the bike in the ad is a freestyling bike though, just one of those fold-up bikes.
what a story about your freestylin' contest that you initiated but missed! -
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Re: freestylin'!
Sun, June 11, 2006 - 8:32 PMthese are freestyle bikes...
www.smartcycles.com/bmx_fs_j....htm#free
you'll notice the pegs on the wheel axles... allowing for tricks and such... as well as the rotor style neck... which allows you to spin the handlebars around indefinitely without tangling up the brake cables.
yes... the ads on tribe seem to have some sort of contextual analysis to the pages... both scary and amazing at the same time! -
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Re: freestylin'!
Mon, June 12, 2006 - 7:25 AMoh, ok, i see what it looks like.
what are you doing today? i'm bored off my ass. i'm waiting for a refridgerator to be delivered. it sucks to be inside.
i had a weird dream that the "security administration" was calling me repeatedly about my job to tell me something was wrong. i had done something un-kosher or the job itself was unkosher, or my boss was unkosher, i couldn't tell which. each time they called, there was a frustratingly bad connection and i could never understand just what they were saying. i guess it was a scary bureacratic kind of dream, you know that some big gov't agency like the IRS calls to tell you you're in trouble. but they're cagey about just why you're in trouble and you're afraid to speak openly to them about anything. first it was a woman calling, then it was a man. the man actually came to my door and picked me up and drove me away in his car on the freeway. we were in CA. i kept thinking "why doesn't he help me to quit my job? maybe that's really what he's here for."
but then i remembered that i was supposed to be at home endlessly waiting for the refridgerator, so i told him. "turn this car around right now! i need to be at home waiting for the fridge." and he finally did.
and i woke up. and i'm listening to the fucking drone of the fridge again, waiting for the delivery guys so that i can get out of this prison. -
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Re: freestylin'!
Sat, December 2, 2006 - 7:35 AMno. ha! just a euphemism.
sorry i repeatedly misspelled refrigerator. that D looks so goofy! (see: the Good Spellers tribe.)
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