Richard Steyer

Photo of the Day

From Stanley Kubrick's Photos of 1940s New York.

"In the early twentieth century, nothing conveyed the modern spirit of mobility, freedom, and independence better than the bicycle. When a pretty athletic girl was included, she added sexual desirability to the mix -- a sleek human machine joined to the manufactured machine. To many observers, this novel combination was exciting and perhaps a little frightening."

The photo & quote is actually from a quite fascinating article "Venus with Biceps: A Pictorial History of Muscular Women" at Brainpickings.

(Thanks Jesse.)

The Daring Feats Of A Trick Rider // The Art Of Trick Riding

Rad tricks in the Scientific American, May 13, 1899.

From here.

Trackstand Acrobatics, but not like you'd expect...

Cool Freestyle Tricks On Lame Bike - Watch more Funny Videos

Vintage Tricks

SuperTed vs. Paddy Waters

"Circus trick cyclist Paddy Waters met up with Superted to swap bikes, tricks and tips.

All images copyright Paul Churchill."

See the whole set HERE. Pretty funny.

Real Trick Bikes = "Kunstradfahren"

If you want to learn about some real fixed gear trick bikes, check this out.

... uh, only it's in German.

'Mädchen mit einen Kunstrad'

a day with | INES BRUNN from Justin Gallagher on Vimeo.

Hallo Ines, now we all want to see you do those fakie wheelies, please?

Steady now

Pic stolen -again- from G.S. Guccilife.

Shanghai Back In 1957

Seen here, (c) by Robert Carl Cohen.

Ines Brunn & Her Bike

The other day I posted some pics of those old school artistic Bauer trick bikes and someone pointed out that one of  them was actually a bike polo bike. Anyhow, here's Ines Brunn on her 'artistic trick bike', pic comes from Endless Matt.

If you want to see more of her, Flickr is full of pics from her shows. 

 

Real Trick Bikes