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Video: US number one hit Cheap Thrills played entirely on a bicycle
Despite reaching number one in ten countries and number two in the UK, it’s possible that Cheap Thrills by the Australian singer Sia passed you by. Even if that’s the case, you could probably guess that a bicycle wasn’t the only instrument used on the original, as it apparently is on this cover version by Kurt Hugo Schneider and singer Kina Grannis.
This is not the first time a bike’s been used to make music. In 2014, Johnnyrandom took a childhood fascination with “the sound of the spokes” and expanded it to explore the full range of sounds that a bike can make to produce his debut single, Bespoken.
Back in 2011, composer Roger Lima created a track entitled Specialized Beats, for which he employed two Specialized mountain bikes as percussion instruments.
More recently, a man appeared on Britain’s Got Talent spinoff show, Got Talent Global, playing a bike he’d drilled and adapted so that it could be played like a flute.
Alex has written for more cricket publications than the rest of the road.cc team combined. Despite the apparent evidence of this picture, he doesn't especially like cake.
Always? So the guy is asked to appear on a podcast to discuss performance enhancing drugs and answers questions posed to him, which go beyond what...
"Babergh District Council said it had been "clear throughout" that it "had no option but to introduce charges" and could not afford to continue to...
The Benelux cycling (and pedestrian) tunnel was, as I understand it, built as an access tunnel but also to do double duty when not needed for...
Maybe it is the latest ruse for insurers to avoid payouts saying "You didn't tell us that you took the key out of the lock so we're refusing your...
That idea has gone out of the window. The new idea is that if you see a cyclist you honk your horn and watch what happens. It ended very badly in...
I'm still running an ELMNT BOLT V1, and I've never really understood the LED's. I'm sure I configured them for HR zones, but never really look at...
Why is this not the will of god?
PKD foresaw it, though his novel was based on a different outcome of WWII, not the precursor to WWIII. Maybe the Idiocracy film is a closer fit?
@Sredlums: I'm not sure I follow your logic. If someone grabs your helmet twists it, then the reason it doesn't feel good is because the outer is...
Coming to the mid-paced Saturday club ride soon.