Mall Racing!

Update from Canberra Times.

c_c said :

Idiot.

Why? For stating the truth about what a mountain bike is capable of?

I’m not condoning it, but what looks crazy to you looks pretty restrained to an experienced MTBer.

wildturkeycanoe said :

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Cars have disc brakes too. Doesn’t make them stop on a dime, there’s a thing called momentum that doesn’t strictly apply to anything over a tonne.
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No s*** sherlock but a fully kitted downhill bike with 8″ hydraulic disc brakes, 2.3″ wide knobby tyres & an overall mass of 100kg’s or less pretty well does. Even on the slippery tiled surface they are pretty good & will outbrake pretty well anything.

Fark some of you people must live some boring lives, you hate everything. No one was hurt, have a laugh at Westfield & get on with life.

KB1971 said :

c_c said :

Idiot. That is just moronic, really one of the stupidest, ill thought comments in a long, long time. Disc brakes won’t stop you hurtling down a god damn escalator, or stop you coming around a corner plowing into someone. God I hope you don’t drive.

Go get an education.

Have you actually ridden a MTB with hydraulic disc brakes?

Cars have disc brakes too. Doesn’t make them stop on a dime, there’s a thing called momentum that doesn’t strictly apply to anything over a tonne.
Unfortunately the video has been deleted [hopefully pending investigation and prosecution by the authorities] so I can’t get fully outraged at the antics, but by the responses here it seems there should have been more done by Westfield. If the police don’t have authority for punishing reckless endangerment or some such crime, why don’t I just rock up to L1 Belco and do some burnouts in the entertainment area? I bet the response won’t be as warm and full of praise by some of the readers here.

c_c said :

Idiot. That is just moronic, really one of the stupidest, ill thought comments in a long, long time. Disc brakes won’t stop you hurtling down a god damn escalator, or stop you coming around a corner plowing into someone. God I hope you don’t drive.

Go get an education.

Have you actually ridden a MTB with hydraulic disc brakes?

c_c said :

niftydog said :

c_c said :

Woman was killed by a shopping trolley on an escalator, they just finished an inquest. Damn thing wasn’t even going at speed, it had no momentum.

Not quite. The shopping trolley caused her husband to lose his balance and fall on his old and very frail wife. Poor guy…

Some of you might be surprised to learn that bikes like these have 8″ hydraulic disc brakes which = oodles of control.

Search ‘downmall’ on youtube and you’ll see official events with precariously placed spectators.

Idiot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zPOtJ_dk8w

Fun idiocy though……

chewy14 said :

… Cause that’s the way Jim Jones rolls.

Jim Jones rolls. Slightly flaky, and they all twist to the left…

niftydog said :

c_c said :

Woman was killed by a shopping trolley on an escalator, they just finished an inquest. Damn thing wasn’t even going at speed, it had no momentum.

Not quite. The shopping trolley caused her husband to lose his balance and fall on his old and very frail wife. Poor guy…

Some of you might be surprised to learn that bikes like these have 8″ hydraulic disc brakes which = oodles of control.

Search ‘downmall’ on youtube and you’ll see official events with precariously placed spectators.

Idiot. That is just moronic, really one of the stupidest, ill thought comments in a long, long time. Disc brakes won’t stop you hurtling down a god damn escalator, or stop you coming around a corner plowing into someone. God I hope you don’t drive.

Go get an education.

niftydog said :

c_c said :

Woman was killed by a shopping trolley on an escalator, they just finished an inquest. Damn thing wasn’t even going at speed, it had no momentum.

Not quite. The shopping trolley caused her husband to lose his balance and fall on his old and very frail wife. Poor guy…

Some of you might be surprised to learn that bikes like these have 8″ hydraulic disc brakes which = oodles of control.

Search ‘downmall’ on youtube and you’ll see official events with precariously placed spectators.

Idiot.

These braggadocios will use this moment to pretend they won’t die. But within a time much closer than they expect, shall they face careless, inevitable oblivion.

c_c said :

Woman was killed by a shopping trolley on an escalator, they just finished an inquest. Damn thing wasn’t even going at speed, it had no momentum.

Not quite. The shopping trolley caused her husband to lose his balance and fall on his old and very frail wife. Poor guy…

Some of you might be surprised to learn that bikes like these have 8″ hydraulic disc brakes which = oodles of control.

Search ‘downmall’ on youtube and you’ll see official events with precariously placed spectators.

Jim Jones said :

chewy14 said :

Jim Jones said :

Anyway – that was AWESOME!!!

I note that the usual suspects have turned up to tut tut … suck it moles!!!!

I know, same goes for those killjoys on the other thread whinging about the Jim’s Mowing guy.

He was just completing some fully sick extreme driving and should be applauded for his mad trailer skills.

Hey everybody, let’s compare a hit and run with a couple of people riding pushbikes through a shopping mall!!!

Hey everybody let’s completely ignore the inherent danger to the public from riding mountainbikes through a mall because I think its cool.

Note that I don’t think this should preclude me from whinging about other things I find dangerous at a later date. Cause that’s the way Jim Jones rolls.

Jim Jones said :

chewy14 said :

Jim Jones said :

Anyway – that was AWESOME!!!

I note that the usual suspects have turned up to tut tut … suck it moles!!!!

I know, same goes for those killjoys on the other thread whinging about the Jim’s Mowing guy.

He was just completing some fully sick extreme driving and should be applauded for his mad trailer skills.

Hey everybody, let’s compare a hit and run with a couple of people riding pushbikes through a shopping mall!!!

Woman was killed by a shopping trolley on an escalator, they just finished an inquest. Damn thing wasn’t even going at speed, it had no momentum.

You think someone crossing below the escalator as these jokers came down with no hope of stopping wouldn’t get wiped out too?

chewy14 said :

Jim Jones said :

Anyway – that was AWESOME!!!

I note that the usual suspects have turned up to tut tut … suck it moles!!!!

I know, same goes for those killjoys on the other thread whinging about the Jim’s Mowing guy.

He was just completing some fully sick extreme driving and should be applauded for his mad trailer skills.

Hey everybody, let’s compare a hit and run with a couple of people riding pushbikes through a shopping mall!!!

Jim Jones said :

Anyway – that was AWESOME!!!

I note that the usual suspects have turned up to tut tut … suck it moles!!!!

I know, same goes for those killjoys on the other thread whinging about the Jim’s Mowing guy.

He was just completing some fully sick extreme driving and should be applauded for his mad trailer skills.

I have it on good authority that centre management were consulted and apparently they gave it the thumbs up so long as the riotact got in on the act.Hey let’s face it any publicity is good publicity!

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SnapperJack said :

About the only activity going on in shopping malls nowadays. People certainly aren’t buying anything in the shops anymore.

Yeah … the mall is always deserted and there are no people there and no-one is spending money because of juLIAR and the muslims :rolls eyes so far back I can see the back of my head:

Anyway – that was AWESOME!!!

I note that the usual suspects have turned up to tut tut … suck it moles!!!!

Kramer said :

Best story on RiotACT ever!
These guys have done what I have been thinking for years. Awesome work.

I’d rather do it in a car, Blues Brothers style!

How dare they reclaim a space totally given over to buying stuff?

Although cool it doesn’t stop them from being f***tards.

I just hope they post the video where they crash.

What? No drop-offs into the foodcourt!? Pffft.

About the only activity going on in shopping malls nowadays. People certainly aren’t buying anything in the shops anymore.

This is what happens when you watch one too many old Nicole Kidman movies.

screaming banshee said :

Nice work s***heads.

If I see you doing it I will knock you on your arse.

What if you don’t have your keyboard with you?

Believe it or not, there’s nothing Police could do about this. It was up to the centre management to have them removed and it doesn’t look like the rent-a-cops did.

Just hope these s**ts break their necks sooner rather than later and leave others unscathed.

I hope someone got their registration numbers

Ha ha me and my mates used to do this at Belconnen Mall back in the 80s on weekend afternoons. There were hardly any shops were open back then, nowhere near as busy as in that video clip.

Nice work s***heads.

If I see you doing it I will knock you on your arse.

Where’s the Mall cops/Mall SWAT; i once walked into the Canberra centre with my bike, trying to buy a bike lock from Big W so I could lock it up outside, and was promptly kicked out.

What a pair of idiots.

all most as funny as jackass urban football or golf course air siren

“yes your honour, it was awesome fun, until I knocked over and killed that little old lady doing her shopping”

Hate modern malls. Anything that defiles them is good in my book.

Just don’t hit the moving trees, especially the saplings and the old oaks, the exception being any that insist on completely blocking escalators.

Not only is highly friggin dangerous, this stupid little children not only name themselves, they give clear shots of their faces.

ACT Policings work is done.

Best story on RiotACT ever!
These guys have done what I have been thinking for years. Awesome work.

Looks like it was great fun! Nice work lads.

Fun and games until somebody gets hurt, then it’s hysterical.

Why the hell not, hey.

Haha, awesome…

ANd that’s why cyclists shouldn’t be allowed on the roads!!! Aaarrrgghhhhh…

What could possibly go wrong.

I love it!!