UNEDITED RECORD! First bike race at Municipal Circuit. Montevideo, 1928.
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UNEDITED RECORD! First bike race at Municipal Circuit. Montevideo, 1928.
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Bring this back right now
Wtf
No helmet!
Look at that crowd going mild
They’re going wheelie fast
The first fixie!
That actually takes some massive cajones considering those are wooden wheels with no inflatable inner tube. At best they might have a hard rubber surface. The tiniest bump or pebble could toss you off at that speed, from that height, and with no safety gear.
You also can’t coast since the pedals are directly attached to the front axle your feet have to pedal at the same speed as the front wheel.
Do they have freewheel hubs where you can stop pedaling and coast, or are the cranks just welded to the sprocket and they have to keep their feet moving the whole time?
I’m pretty sure it’s just a solid connection and they need to keep their feet moving anytime the wheel is moving, and that’s fucking rough lol
Seen this before, and 99% certain that the caption is incorrect in most respects. IIRC it’s British Pathé newsreel coverage of a race at Herne Hill, London. The date is about right (it’s an event for historic bikes during a “normal” track meeting of the time, not an antique bit of film, nor a first of anything; 19th century path racing was on flat shale or cinder tracks, not banked concrete tracks with sprinters’ and stayers’ line markings, and the clothing is interwar). People still race high bicycles today (been a bit of a revival in the last decade and you can buy new ones).
Bicycle! Biiiiicycle!
Scooooooter brooooooothers
The best part at these bikes are called “Penny-farthings”
So you don’t like the old time bikes, eh?
*kicks face
Then somebody said “Why don’t we make the wheel smaller and the pedals longer?”
I’ve sometimes seen a guy in Copenhagen ride a bicycle similar to those, kind of want one ngl.
Did the one with the big wheel win?
This design is so insane.
All I can hear is the Family Guy vamp music
Is the the tool used by women to shave their pu$$y in olden days?
Crazy Bastids…
The start of the race must have been comical.
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How the hell did they even go through a phase of having such unwieldy bikes? A bike you need to perform a gymnastic move just to mount?
What gear would this be?
I assume coming off of one of those things was mostly over the handlebars and landing on your head. I’m not seeing a lot of MIPS tech cycle helmets in this video, so high speed crashes must have been one and done.
How do you steer?
OK, in all seriousness did no-one find this comical/ridiculous back in it’s time??
Ballsy
Hipsters racing to a new vegan coffee shop that gives out free typewriters
if they hit a bump i know their backs were fd for life
Why did they feel this was a good design compared to having 2 similar sized wheels? Was it just leverage ?
Be seeing you….
Pls tell me these things have breaks .
This needs some Yakety Sax music Benny Hill style.