I don’t normally post videos on Tuesdays, but there’s a new Chris Akrigg video here, and I’m an unabashed fan of this guy’s riding. Here are three minutes of naturalist, brutalist trials magic. This is how I would ride a bike, if I could ride a bike like this.
Robot fell in love with cycling watching the older neighborhood kids ride wheelies down the street. It was the early '70s, and Evel Knievel was jumping motorcycles over buses. Everything seemed possible. From that moment, the die was cast (iacta alia est).
He studied philosophy in college, of course he did. That's what idealists do, romantics, kids who think there must be a better way. At the same time, bikes were carrying him everywhere, delivering all of life's gifts and surprises. Occasionally he crashed and didn't mind.
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