These guys are GOOD!

It wasn't quite the kind of thing I expected to see while pedalling through Surfers Paradise at 10pm on a Sunday night. Last night there were about for kids on BMX bikes doing stunts on what passes for footpath/sidewalk "art" in that part of the world. The four of them were dressed in all black, riding black bikes, but most amazingly of all, appeared to be riding in perfect formation while doing their stunts.

They actually looked, dare I say it, professional in the way they were doing it, and the fact they were dressed in all black seemed to give them an aura, as if they'd just waltzed into the place and were now taking it over. As I was riding past, the leader of the group looked like he had totally misjudged one of his jumps, yet his skill level was such that he was able to not only save the situation, but follow it up with a double-pirohuette, that made it look almost intentional.

Sometimes it's a good thing nobody reads this blog. If I posted this on virtually any message board with any volume of traffic, it would immediately be swamped by a heap of posts along the lines of "why were they wearing black at night". Admittedly, those posts might even be right, but just for once, it's nice to revel in the skill of people like this, and given that it was near the end of 198km or riding, punctuated by an eight-hour meeting, seeing it was just the tonic I needed.