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Walls - Bas Keep video still via Red Bull.PNGVideo: Amazing skills as BMX ace Bas Keep rides down walls
Brighton and Croydon are among the locations featured in a new video from British BMX ace Bas Keep and his sponsors Red Bull in which he rides his bike down the sides of buildings.
With the help of custom built ramps (and a bit of hi-viz to pass themselves off as workmen, Keep and his team found places nowhere there was bridge and a building in close proximity to alllow him to plan for and pull off the spectacular stunts.
The climactic jump in Croydon is something else altogether - there's a 20-foot gap between the bridge and the wall, with a vertical drop of around 35 feet.
As this 'making-of' video explains, that was one location that had been scouted through Google Earth, and also the one to which Keep was at greatest risk of serious injury.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Apologies - you're quite right! Something about presentation and comprehension...
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You can find out whether they're lying about 'taking action' by asking them what they actually did. When they refuse to tell you, citing various...
- Bungle_52 52 min 50 sec ago
Blind spots eh. Just a reminder of the lorry driver who was aquitted after killing a cyclist on a roundabout where the jury obviously felt it was...
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But don't forget to correct for altitude.
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Yes ... but (just due to the large numbers of people affected) this likely would only proceed in the UK at a very ... cautious ... pace....
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Arsehole in the van not with standing, how did they manage to get a risk assessment allowing a race (a group not a TT) group to be competing on ...
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Who says Croydon is boring?
This man should try gliding; he has great energy management skills. He's also got more testicular fortitude than I have.
Just rewatched, noticed he didn't wear one doing the slightly smaller stuff. Good for him, assessing risk and all that.
Never mind a helmet, few riders use brakes these days. Wouldn't work for me, I enjoyed skids too much. Also not enough bike control!
Bas has been carrying on this way for a good long time already
Now that man should be wearing a helmet...
I wish we could take the m out of smidsy, if you aren't looking you aren't my mate.
Carry on like this and he will end up a paraplegic.
We are all one smidsy away from being paraplegic.
That stunt is over a year old. It was on the cover of the last Ride mag. Kept wondering when the video would suface. BMX is just mental these days.
Paralympics here I come!
Awesome.
Great film with loads of spirit.