Artistic Cyclist Is a Graceful Ballerina on Two Wheels
Artistic Cyclist Lea Schaepe of Pottsdam, Germany, performs incredibly graceful tricks on her bicycle as if she were a ballerina on wheels. Schaepe explained to Ripley's Believe It or Not that she came to love this sport after seeing a show when she was young.
The first time I see artistic cycling was at a celebration in my village, close to Berlin and I saw girls doing this stuff on the bike. They did it so together and it was so impressive. ... It was so smooth and glorious. It was so cool to see and then, I decided, with my parents, to start artistic cycling in the club. So, artistic cycling is a small sport in Germany; it's not that famous.
Since then, Schaepe has been competing around the world on her fixie" (fixed-gear bicycle) and spreading the word about this sport she loves very much.
So what I like about artistic cycling now is that I can be free and I have fun learning new tricks, and that's why I want to help to promote it and to teach other people on the streets how to do wheelies and other kind of stuff on the bike. I would like to make it artistic cycling in the US as big as it could be.
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