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First time Ive seen anyone ride this

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This guy deserves a medal
and his buddies are pretty nuts too

 
Posted : 09/01/2024 8:37 pm
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Seen it done by a few people, it was a pretty common thing years ago, Richard and Linda Thompson recorded a song called ‘Wall Of Death’, REM covered it on a Richard Thompson tribute album.

 
Posted : 09/01/2024 8:46 pm
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on a pushbike?
I want to see the bright lights tonight is a fantastic album

 
Posted : 09/01/2024 8:51 pm
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First time Ive seen anyone ride this

I said the same thing to my mate on the first of January.

Boom boom!

 
Posted : 09/01/2024 9:09 pm
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What’s the stunt? That there’s three of them?

I thought walls of death were a fairly common circus thing?

 
Posted : 09/01/2024 9:33 pm
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on a pushbike

also i havent seen guys monkeying around like that on the wall of death
Ive watched a guy taking money out of peoples hands while doing it, iirc he even took the money while driving a car
(this guy)

 
Posted : 09/01/2024 9:44 pm
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What? That's a moped, listen with the sound on.

Seriously, you're trolling, right?

 
Posted : 09/01/2024 9:48 pm
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This will blow your mind.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000nh2n/top-gear-series-29-episode-2

 
Posted : 09/01/2024 9:54 pm
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That’s a moped, listen with the sound on.

no, hes pedalling.
i cant take you lot seriously

 
Posted : 09/01/2024 10:11 pm
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They're not pedalling.

 
Posted : 09/01/2024 10:15 pm
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The third guy up on the red and white bike is pedalling and it doesn't look like his bike has a motor. The other 2 are on mopeds things.

 
Posted : 09/01/2024 10:32 pm
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As an aside I've seen the wall of death with the motorbikes and it's a loud, shaking, up close thing of visceral joy.

 
Posted : 09/01/2024 11:32 pm
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Am I remembering wrong, isn't a push bike how Guy Martin started to learn when he did his speed attempt?

 
Posted : 10/01/2024 12:39 am
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No lion sat with them?

 
Posted : 10/01/2024 12:59 am
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Seems its bring your kid to work day. Theres a small child sitting in the middle.

 
Posted : 10/01/2024 3:12 am
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Yes, I’ve noticed the small kid as well. Poor kid, that must have been pretty loud for her.

 
Posted : 10/01/2024 5:57 am
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must have missed  it

 
Posted : 10/01/2024 7:54 am
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This would liven up the track pursuit for sure.

 
Posted : 10/01/2024 8:07 am
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Martyn Ashton did it on a road bike!

 
Posted : 10/01/2024 8:21 am
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The wall of death has been around since 1915, some use motorbikes and some use cars

My first time seeing one live was at a Circus/fair in Hastings in 1994 (Backyard jam for any BMX'ers on here)

Dave Clymer (S&M bike riders) tried on his BMX but couldnt manage to stay up on the wall mainly due to the gearing on the BMX

 
Posted : 10/01/2024 9:55 am
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wtf is Rumble?

 
Posted : 10/01/2024 10:46 am
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MBUK rode a Wall of Death (on a normal bike) in about 1993!

I remember the article, it was one of the very first editions of MBUK that I bought when I was looking at buying my first MTB.

 
Posted : 10/01/2024 10:52 am
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A young Colin Furze made his own with a lot of palettes,  what a lad with the lid 😕

helped grow his channel !

 
Posted : 10/01/2024 1:06 pm
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wtf is Rumble?

Youtube for lovers of "free speech". They actually self blocked themselves in France rather than remove Sputnik news and RT from their streams.

 
Posted : 10/01/2024 1:17 pm
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palettes, 

Are they posh pallets? Or French ones?

 
Posted : 10/01/2024 4:46 pm
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Martyn Ashton did it on a road bike!

thanks for that

 
Posted : 10/01/2024 7:04 pm
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Nothing to add other than when my sister did our family tree about 30 years ago she found out my Grandfather was a wall of death rider. Would have loved to be able to talk to him about it but I only saw him once when I was about 4 years old and he was literally on his death bed.

 
Posted : 11/01/2024 8:12 am
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Been around for decades

 
Posted : 11/01/2024 10:35 am