British Teen rides bike on surface of water : Othor Games

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:03 am

So I booted up Yahoo, and here's this little gem at the top of the sports page

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/post/British-teenager-bikes-on-top-of-water-for-chari?urn=top-wp203

I dunno know how he did it, but according to the article, it wasn't a camera trick or anything. He biked across to raise money for flood victims in London apparently, which is a pretty awesome thing to do.

Any idea's how he pulled it off?

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:06 am

Well he's british ofcourse. Therefore he's a wizard

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:10 am

Oh, so the Holy Grail is actually a bicycle.. Jesus' bicycle!

Edit: ... Or yeah, he just cast Water Walking for 15 seconds on self. :shrug:

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:32 pm

Well he's british ofcourse. Therefore he's a wizard

Great, first JK Rowling and now you. Do you want every muggle to know about us? Honestly...

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:26 pm

Meh, you can see something sticking out of the water under the right pedal.

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 5:23 am

Looks shopped.
Or just a really long platform across the water.

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:20 pm

Ice slightly below the surface of the water?

Scuba divers holding up platforms while he moved?

Very well trained turtles with little jets attached to their shells?

Cthulhu?

» Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:53 pm

Judging from the angle, it's the same trick hollywood has done for years to make things look like they are running/walking across water: transparent/camouflaged bridge JUST under the surface of the water.

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:12 am

..Or he's playing a heavily modded version of Real Life?.

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 6:02 am

He probably had a runway of floating perspex

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:21 am

Where's the trail behind him then?

Ya thought so :spotted owl:

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:53 am

I'm sure the photos are very much real. So is the platform in the water on which Whitehurt's bike is likely standing.

Seems to me there is a plank or something. Though, it is entirely possible to ride a snow mobile across a lake when its not frozen, but you have to be going incredibly fast to accomplish it.

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:49 am

"A British teenager raised money for a flood victims in London's Lake District"

Honestly, I don't think Americans should be allowed to write stories about things that happen in Britain...

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:55 am

"A British teenager raised money for a flood victims in London's Lake District"

Honestly, I don't think Americans should be allowed to write stories about things that happen in Britain...

Everything is london when viewed from this side of the pond. Or Cardiff, if your watching doctor who.

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:41 am

Everything is london when viewed from this side of the pond. Or Cardiff, if your watching doctor who.

London or Scotland

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:58 pm

He probably had a runway of floating perspex

This.

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:37 am

"A British teenager raised money for a flood victims in London's Lake District"

Honestly, I don't think Americans should be allowed to write stories about things that happen in Britain...

He even says "England's Lake Buttermere" in the next paragraph. Well, I guess he figured not a lot of people reading Yahoo Sports would care.

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:08 pm

"A British teenager raised money for a flood victims in London's Lake District"

Honestly, I don't think Americans should be allowed to write stories about things that happen in Britain...

What? They've moved my Lakes 200 miles to the south? :swear:

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 6:17 am

What? They've moved my Lakes 200 miles to the south? :swear:

Nope, they moved London 200 miles north

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:42 am

HAX!!!

Someone ban him from the server. <_<

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:10 am

Nope, they moved London 200 miles north

Good riddance. :glare:

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 11:25 am

Great, first JK Rowling and now you. Do you want every muggle to know about us? Honestly...

:rofl:

Anyways. I won't believe until he explains how he did it. If he hydroplaned then someone would have brought him up to speed for that, but I am not seeing water being cast outwards, if you will, when someone hydroplanes.

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:45 pm

Good riddance. :glare:

I thought you were from London...

I dont see why its news, either a transarent plastic bridge just under the surface or something is carrything him, look at his pedal its got something under it.

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:01 am

Good riddance. :glare:

Hey! We don't want it any more than you do! Isn't there an isolated island in Scotland where we can put it?

» Tue Jul 19, 2011 12:35 pm

Very well trained turtles with little jets attached to their shells?

My son thought this one was the most likely.. he's almost six, and a self proclaimed genius, unlike his old man, who's an idiot for not thinking up the turtle explanation.

This is where the heavy drinking starts...