I love that YouTube allows you to change video speeds. This one is quite enjoyable when slowed way down. I love the boom box tied to the handlebars.

Back in my riding days, I rode trails like this, but without the big jumps, on my road racing 14 speed bike with thin knobbies. No suspension and the wrong style handlebars change EVERYTHING! I'm still impressed my front forks never broke, and that I never went over a cliff. I usually went over the front of the bike at least once per ride, though.
Ahhhh, youth. It's wasted on the young.

Cool!
Geeze, it's hard to believe one could hold the handlebars steady enough.

Driver completely removes his hands from the handlebars to clap....

Problem is, I often see then riding 2 or 3 abreast on city roads and narrow country roads. On city roads, it's merely annoying. On narrow country roads, it's downright stupid. If you're riding at (being generous) 50 kph and someone comes round a corner doing a perfectly safe and legal 90, you're in trouble.

As for cycle lanes, you're generally right. Unless there's some physical separation from the road, in which case they're great. And while you may be obliged to use the cycle lane, it really makes more sense than cycling in traffic.

I don't want to come off as anti-cyclist. I really believe that cycling is a much better way of transporting people in an urban environment, but people need to stop being so stupid about it. In NZ, you are legally required to wear a helmet, yet everyday I see idiots
a) without a helmet
b) with a helmet, but it's hanging on the handlebars (I guess they don't want to mess up their hair??)
and most stupidly
c) wearing a helmet, but not closing the strap... honestly, this is just retarded. You're wearing the damn helmet anyway, close the strap so it might actually be useful in a crash. It's like running around carrying a bullet proof vest

Yeah.. never done a burnout before, but I can easily pick out what he was doing. The handlebars of a bike have a clutch (left side handle) and a front wheel brake (right side handle). Pretty sure he was trying to let them both out at the same time.

The end of the video tells me he's either completely effed up his clutch, or didn't actually shift properly an the bike stalled.. poor guy needs some lessons.

Can I ride on his handlebars? Please?

That's an official stunt move called the Bugs Bunny. A quick flick of the handlebars and "WHAT'S UP, DOC?"

With all the buildup, I was expecting something much more clever. That said, if they reduce it in size by about a factor of five, which is probably not impossible, it could be pretty cool.

addendum:

After thinking about it, I would be interested to know the details of the activation mechanism. It would have to be fairly complex so as not to inflate when you hit a bump or make a sudden maneuver, but also be guaranteed to inflate even if you impact something head on and go over the handlebars. I got hit by a car head on once, and there wasn't much in the way of sudden impacts or acceleration until I was actually hitting the ground because I jumped to avoid getting tangled with the bike (didn't hit my head proper, but lost a few teeth). It could be freefall I suppose, but you sometimes get that cresting a hill. Presumably it's not for any sort of aggressive(ish) riding.

....Seriously? Graphic tees? Starbucks? Hoodies? These aren't hipsters. They're young people. Unless you're wearing a handlebar moustache, a hitler youth haircut, or a pork pie hat (to name the biggest offenders), you're not fitting into the "hipster" category.

That might have been self-induced at two levels.
1) He appears to hit the brakes a bit too hard--and just like you can launch yourself over your handlebars if you hit your front brakes too hard, physics bites him in the butt and
2) In my imagination, they might even have been competing to see who could pull off the shortest landing---with the start of the landing having to be between the sets of cones that everyone is standing around and the shortest landing up to that point (when he broke the airplane)marked by the orange cone that he flips the Cessna just after...

The trick here, if that's it, would have been controlling his approach speed better---and hanging on the edge of a stall or even have parts of the wing already into the stall as he landed---slower speed, short distance---no desperate last minute stab at the brakes

If you look closely you can see a small brown alien sitting in the passing-guy's handlebar basket.>> ^grinter:

What? Was he in a tree? Where did that guy come from?

If you aren't ready for the landing, that handlebar goes into your teeth.

Now here is an interesting idea. This device is mounted to the handlebars of a bike and projects a bright green image onto the roadway in front of the bike. It's designed to warn autos of the oncoming bike.

http://www.gizmag.com/blaze-bicycle-laser-safety-device/18886/