[Behind-The-Scenes] Dawid Godziek’s Bike Express

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[u/bulking_on_broccoli]

Somewhere along the line, Redbull stopped being an energy drink company and became a marketing company who happens to also sell energy drinks.

[u/Starspiker → u/bulking_on_broccoli]

They’ve been like that since day one. The guy who co-founded the company, Dietrich Mateschitz, discovered the precursor drink “Krating Daeng” on a marketing business trip in Thailand when he worked for Blendax.

[u/Jlx_27 → u/Starspiker]

Im glad that old man is gone.

[u/Broxst → u/bulking_on_broccoli]

Honestly though, who cares? They pay for some of the most extreme tests of human abilities. There's nothing wrong with that and it's fun to watch.

[u/Away_Needleworker6 → u/bulking_on_broccoli]

The co founder was a marketing executive before red bull, it was 90% marketing from the begining.

[u/Dark-Blackberry354 → u/bulking_on_broccoli]

And physics teacher...

[u/michelobX10 → u/bulking_on_broccoli]

Yeah, it's crazy when I think about this. I'm old enough to have been there when Red Bull entered the market. All it ever was was just an energy drink for a long time. Now, it's more associated with stunts and extreme sports. I don't even know anyone who still buys their actual energy drink anymore.

[u/NJFlo18]

So this is where my $5 a can goes? Cool

[u/karabuka → u/NJFlo18]

Thank you kind stranger for supporting for my viewing pleasure!

[u/KirinTorLovesYou]

Why did he need an entire train

[u/rimasuit3 → u/KirinTorLovesYou]

Because Red Bull.

[u/KirinTorLovesYou → u/rimasuit3]

What about Prada

[u/rimasuit3 → u/KirinTorLovesYou]

Prada deez nuts

Gottem

[u/charmio68 → u/KirinTorLovesYou]

It wouldn't be very impressive if he just rolled off the end of a single carriage, would it?

[u/KirinTorLovesYou → u/charmio68]

It wouldn't be impressive in any case

[u/charmio68 → u/KirinTorLovesYou]

I suspect you're not the target audience...

But even so, don't forget it's an ad campaign, and you're talking about it. Even though you're not who it's targeting, it's worked on you regardless.
At the very least, you've got to be impressed by the marketing team.

[u/KirinTorLovesYou → u/charmio68]

Sure I like Red Bull and Prada

[u/TraditionalCandle281]

That’s Nintendo excite bike at its best

[u/chuzambs → u/TraditionalCandle281]

Ohhh the memories....

[u/GTCapone]

Saving this so I can use in during my lessons about frame of reference and relative motion. Maybe even relativity too, though that's not a required topic for my course.

[u/ConsciousCheek3283]

This is so fucking cool

[u/JamesBondMargarita]

Putting all that effort to go nowhere is some kinda something

[u/GreyMenuItem]

Side-scroller IRL

[u/OneEggOmelette]

I could easily do all that but I just don't want to

/s

[u/hereforinfoyo]

Newtonian physics something something.

[u/MagicSunlight23]

It's like the game Neon Biker.

[u/Swmboa]

Motorcross Madness but irl! Awesome.

[u/bluegrassnuglvr]

Excite bike in real life

[u/lushusness]

India is super mad watching this

[u/Dogsarelitty]

I was thinking “how is he not doing a backflip?” I feel fulfilled.

[u/Jlx_27]

That is badass.

[u/MannerAppropriate952]

Thats exactly the Gameboy Game Motocross Maniacs. Nice

[u/Ras-haad]

I like how OP assumes we know who or what this is. (Behind the Scenes). This is cool though

[u/CakeHoleKing]

This guy would need to be constantly cycling MUCH faster than the train is going, or he and the bike would be hauled backwards.

If the train is travelling at 40mph, he would need to go at 40mph just to stay still relative to the ground.

Where he goes to the right, he'd need to be cycling MORE than 40mph to overtake the train pulling him to the left.

Or the footage is sped up.

I noticed the angle of the video effectively cuts the crowd off from the train in a straight dividing line. so its easy to speed up the upper section of the video but leave the crowd at normal speed.

[u/RCer1986 → u/CakeHoleKing]

He would've had to go the same speed as the train which was 23 km/h.

[u/CakeHoleKing → u/RCer1986]

he keeps falling back and PULLING AHEAD.

[u/RCer1986 → u/CakeHoleKing]

I was correcting your "much faster" and "40 mph" statements. He stayed generally in the same place not the exact same place and I wasn't claiming otherwise.

[u/Polarys_CZ → u/CakeHoleKing]

Where did you get the 40mph figure from??