"The S1-C water bike gives people of all ages and athletic abilities an exhilarating bike ride on the open water for fun, fitness, and exploration."
Surfers at Burleigh Heads, not always the most welcoming when it comes to anything that might disrupt the iconic lineup’s hierarchy or calm, were forced to flee for their lives on Wednesday when a “pedal catamaran” careened through the crowd.
In a short video posted to Instagram by local Cameron Burke, a thrill seeker on a nine-thousand dollar Schiller Water Bike which has been designed “to take your breath away” attempts to catch a wave before nose-diving and losing the craft on the famous rocks.
Surfers dive for their lives as the contraption is loosed from its master.
The newspaper’s readers, surprisingly, were more pro-bike than pro-surfer.
They said the same to me on Surfers beach when i ventured out in my new LONG BOARD many moons ago, ha ha get over it.
Too many whingers in the ocean.
The way I see it this crazy contraption went well over a single surfer, who duck dived appropriately under it, and it was well away from tne general public, so settle down, nothing to see here…except what might have been happening to his belongings or his car for “tresspassing” on the local boardriders ocean.
The Burleigh locals can take it – Harden up and stop crying to the media.
Surfers are soft.
The Karens of the ocean.
My son got caught in a rip out there when we were surfing one day at the point – The older locals just laughed and yelled out ‘ya might get eaten by a shark boy” So stop crying about you might have nearly gotten runover by a bloke having fun. You don’t own the break Karen.
Commented on Disqus? Log out, tap the Disqus button, and your old name and comments come back. The box is ours.
Your comments are still here. Every one of them.
Twelve years of BeachGrit comments came across from Disqus. Connect and we will show you how many are yours. We get your username, nothing else.
Connect Disqus to reveal.
“…CAREERS THROUGH LINEUP…” ??
Did you me careens ?
Thanks for keeping the surfer genius image alive and well
anyone calling anyone else karen should slap themselves silly. I just don’t have time to do it myself. stupid and racist term brought to you by liberals. whiny liberals.
He is surfing a wave. What are they complaining about?
It’s “careens” not careers… just saying
Seriously at least proof read your title.
What’s with all the delutional comments about surfers. The article doesn’t interview a single surfer yet all the kooks who can’t surf jump on the surfer bashing. Take you tank of a vessel somewhere else before you seriously hurt someone. Yes yes nobody owns the surf but im sure some with kids wouldn’t want them being hit in the face by an out of control paddle board or stupid contraption careering down a wave at them either. No different to any ski hill that has areas only for ski-doo and areas only for toboggans. People don’t want to be run down by a half ton out of control ski doo or by some fatty in a tube.
red rocks…theater…
Oz where do we piss on it…
“Alamo!”
get it back jack…
or wwe’ll do it again…
I’m compelled to ask for a BG crowdfund, and I’ll buy one of these not for the majestic sunset cruises, but to help clear the crowd at First Point the old-fashioned way: blunt-force trauma. Over and over, everyday, until normalcy and meritocracy regain their places in the lineup, and VALs turn to roller-blading again.
you sound like a huge fag
Thanks man. I don’t know what huge fags sound like, tho. What sort of company do you keep? And if you were saying as a compliment to break the ice and invite me on a date, sorry burnefr, I’m flattered but I don’t swing that way.
Shake the weed blur dude and pruuuff read at least your title before your CAREER CAREERS out of control.
Carreens, in the title.
But yeah. Now I’m glad I live in Iowa. It was just kooks and tar in the sixties.
My comment was marked as spam. I was just suggesting a powerful editing tool that could correct grammatical errors on the titles of BeachGrit articles, lol
Writing’s not easy. This title says “careers through lineup” when it should say “careens”. That’s why Grammarly can help. Grammarly’s cutting edge technology helps you craft compelling, understandable writing that makes an impact on your reader. Much better. Are you ready to give it a try? Installation is simple and free.
Stupendously simple to find the footage on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/r…
Good. Lets face it. Surfers are cunts.
Yeah also had same experience paddeling out on a long boatd or a paddle board n a short board line up …..most these pukes are not local they are just more of the same gen of complainers and wimps. And if they are local screw off even more i grew up in HB and the attitude today makes me laugh …..surf and let surf …you want to ride a bike down a wave go for it how about tow in remeber that was evil once too ……relax there is always another wave …..it was never your wave anyway and its not your beach….. your just a clump of dust floating in Gods ocean
Ya, try that logic at pipeline
The Karen’s of the ocean, surfers, look at what your become 😒
Nice paywall on the link, friends of yours?
Another category for next year’s US open with kaipo and Shannon calling it.
“Watch video here” after a subscription…fuck off
Shafted
Karen
Fuck this site.
ceviche, if you brought fish…
https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx….