Building And Riding A Minimalist Tireless Bike
Piggybacking on the build of his bike with treaded square tires, this is a video of engineer The Q reducing the design to its bare minimum, producing a tireless bike that runs on thin treads that only make contact with the pavement at two points. That’s…something. Something I wish I’d had to ride when I was walking to school uphill both ways when I was a kid! “Let me guess — in the snow?” No — ACID RAIN. I still can’t grow hair on my arms.
First Person POV Of A Jump Filled Extreme Downhill Bike Trial
This is a video from the helmet of pro mountain biker Juan Diego Salido as he blasts down an extreme, jump-filled trail built for the Darkfest 2023 biking competition in South Africa. I broke so many bones just watching it, and I’m sitting on the toilet! Just kidding, but my palms are sweaty and my legs did go numb though.
Thanks to JustA, who agrees we should hit this trail on a tandem bike.
Baby Goats Romping In Sunflower Rompers
This is a video of a herd of baby Nigerian Dwarf goats at Sunflower Farm Creamery in Cumberland, Maine wearing sunflower rompers and romping around a barn. This is just what I needed to get my week started. Granted it will probably all be downhill from here, and by the end of the week I won’t even remember this little glimmer of unadulterated happiness, but right now I’m cherishing it. And, who knows, if all goes well maybe the world will end tomorrow.
Playing Foosball With Cordless Drills: No Spinning!
These are a couple videos of people who have attached cordless drills to the player rods of foosball tables and play with the press of a trigger instead of the flick of a wrist. It’s basically just a giant spinning mess. I’m sorry, but I have no tolerance for spinners, I take my foosball very seriously. It’s a game of finesse — not unlike making love to a real person. Something spinners wouldn’t know anything about.
Bear Tries To Make Escape Out Home’s 2nd Story Window
Presumably busted mid home invasion, this is a video of a bear in Colorado Springs, Colorado attempting to make a hasty escape out a home’s second story window after entering on the ground floor and getting trapped upstairs after closing itself in a bedroom. “WTF! Goldilocks never have to do this,” I imagine it thinking to itself while dangling from the window. More details at 11:
“He…got inside and helped himself to my pork chops I had out for dinner that night, got some snacks out of the pantry and knocked over the plants — nothing too crazy,” said [homeowner] Ryan MacFarlane.
Hoho, pork chops — that’s definitely a step up from too hot porridge. Sure they were probably raw, but it’s a bear, they can eat raw food. If you or I ate a raw pork chop? A house fire that would put the one in the classic G.I. Joe PSA to shame.
Pyrotechnic Stage Rig Can Shoot Flames In Sequence From Its 28 Heads
This is a short video demonstration of a pyrotechnic stage rig built by the appropriately named ER Productions for British rock band Bring Me The Horizon. Pfft, go get the horizon yourself, I just got comfortable. The rig has 28 individually controllable nozzles that can shoot flames in pre-programmed sequences. Awesome, now the only thing missing is me jumping a motorized scooter right through the middle of them and not crashing into the pool of alligators below. Either way though, it’s going to be a children’s birthday party to remember.
- April 19, 2024
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