Synchronized Cycling

Artistic Cycling Vintage Card

So apparently this is a sport. A super amazing wonderful sport!

Artistic cycling is a competitive indoor sport in which people do badass tricks on their fixed-gear bikes. The six-minute routines they do (as singles or in pairs or teams) are reminiscent of gymnastics and figure skating performances, but way cooler. Watch one here. It is amazing.

Still from Artistic Cycling Competition

Still from the 2009 European Indoor Cycling Junior Championship Performance

The girls start out with a synchronized routine where they're each riding their own bikes. Then one of the girls hops off her bike and climbs on to the other girl's. That's when shit starts to get really nuts. This is my new favorite sport.

Bonus: Eight seconds of crazy set to Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is"

Via Geekologie

Posted by Jessie Bluejay on Wednesday, August 19, 2009