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1899 Bike Tricks

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Filmed by Thomas Edison in 1899 (!)

via kottke
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💬 5 comments

  1. james ·

    It is like we are sitting in front of Sunday in the distant past!
  2. jenks ·

    wow, i was going to make some snide comment- but it looks like it's really actually real! wow.
  3. theecarey ·

    there are some incredible historical 'videos' at the Library of Congress. I hadn't seen this one yet. Awesome!
  4. paul ·

    Wow that led me somewhere totally inappropriate :::link:::
  5. metalpeter ·

    That ridding backwards thing you can't do on a lot of bikes since peddling backwards is the brake. I can't remember what it is called but there is a movement of tricks just like this where everything is on the ground and there aren't any jumps but I can't remember what it is called.

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