Okay, so has America issued a verdict on BMX or “doing what skateboarders do but just on a bicycle instead” and whether that counts as sports yet? I ask because we accept Lance Armstrong as a sportsman, no questions asked, but once we start getting into the whole “tricks off a street implement thing,” everything starts to get hazy. Even when it’s like this.
(See, what are we supposed to think about this? Is this awesome?)
Case in point, the latest video from Tate Roskelley and Volume Bikes. They’re doing things that are pretty sick as the whole “bike trick highlight reel” genre goes, but… like, just because the X-Games would call it a sport (and even this is pretty borderline) doesn’t necessarily make it so, right? But he batted a basketball into a hoop with his front tire! That’s already better than what Greg Oden can do! How are we expected to rule on this one?! DAMN IT.
(Video courtesy of the ShareBros)
Yeah, see? That was badass in our eyes, but are we supposed to think that was badass or just a complete waste of time? It doesn’t seem like there’s much middle ground.
In fact, let’s just cover all the bases on this one, and if you’ve been waiting on a referendum on bike tricks then here you go.
12:27 pm on November 12th, 2009
What is sports is like defining what is art. It’s not up to you. It’s up to each of us. So…it really doesn’t matter what this poll says. You can copy and paste a “definition” of what ’sport’ is but that hardly encompasses the idea. Just like you can’t tell a guy painting road lines that because he’s not painting on a canvas that, if he thinks what he does is a work of art, that he’s actually wrong. It’s all perception–and not surprisingly, yours doesn’t matter much.
1:08 pm on November 12th, 2009
Who’s the band?
1:25 pm on November 12th, 2009
Dr. Dog - Heart It Races
2:47 pm on November 12th, 2009
That is a sport. that jump through the powerpole holder up wire thingies was sick. why wouldn’t it be a sport? because there are tricks and bikes….throw a judge in there…it is no different than friggin figure skating except this stuff is waaaaay more awesome. And figure skating is a sport…this is way more a sport than that. he was drifting, on his pegs, around a corner…that is sick…drifting is part of car racing which is a what? a sport. sick, sick sick…love it
4:03 pm on November 12th, 2009
Well, i guess it’s better this kid (rather old kid) is doing tricks on a bike all day and having it filmed rather than smoking weed or crack all day. It’s cool, but kids doing stunts on bikes has been happening as long as kids have had bikes. Sport? I didn’t see his competition as in car racing, competitive figure skating. He’s doing tricks on a bike, that’s all.
7:21 pm on November 12th, 2009
I guess you use Webster’s dictionary to define every notion of reality in your life “no one important.” Way to think for yourself.
7:26 pm on November 12th, 2009
This is like shooting hoops alone. It can be YOUR definition of a sport when you add people and have a competition…this is called practicing–PRACTICING A SPORT. Because when he does compete versus other bikers and there is a goal to execute difficult actions to score points…sounds like a sport to me.
And please, please, please don’t bring that weak stuff about competitions versus sports here. It’s semantics. Just because a sport doesn’t have an offense and defense doesn’t mean it’s not a sport. I’m pretty sure that was never a requisite.
8:51 pm on November 12th, 2009
The only time this crap is worth watching is when these dummies bite it. carnage-or-gtfo.
12:28 am on November 13th, 2009
Opinions are like…well you should know Charles.
12:58 pm on November 13th, 2009
It’s a sport. if riding a bike in a straight line is a sport, then this qualifies. Sport. And Sick. So sick.