@neauoire as an Australian who played it without audio, this is both extremely dope and extremely funny to think of them making stereotypical French noises as they zoom together through the countryside, hon hon hon in sequence as they hit the bumps, ooh la laing the view, etc

Sorry sorry I'll try to be better once my coffee kicks in 🙈

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And what about this?

https://invidious.devianze.city/watch?v=doCXCm4IucU

@neauoire steampunk mfs 🤌🤌🤌💯

@neauoire Way cooler than thinking about the Roman Empire all the time

@neauoire a century old skates. Fancy!

@neauoire Damn! Those "skates" are actually far superior in that their wheels are far bigger, so they would go over bumps and cracks without stopping, far more effectively. You can see this in the part where they're skating over a forest trail, something you'd almost never be able to do with standard roller blades/skates.

I would love to see a modern version of these large wheeled skates!

@neauoire off to get a baguette like

@neauoire Welp, this buried memory has now been reawakened. Thanks for giving me nightmares tonight!

@neauoire @lisamelton that is super neat. Thanks for sharing!

@neauoire that's so cool - it reminds me of the 'heel-ies' shoes that boomed about 15-20 years ago.

@neauoire why do I feel like this is better than what we have now?

@neauoire I'm telling my kids this was the Citroen 2CV.

@neauoire I love this. These things get reinvented every once in a while.

https://www.amazon.com/Inventist-Inc-Boardless-Skateboard-Black/dp/B076PKF2SN/

@neauoire Look at those sick 20's tricks!

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Better setup than this one.

@neauoire hhhhhh! (that is the sound of a joyful gasp) 🤩 you are making me know about this for the first time ever!

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I saw someone a few years ago with similar skates except the wheels angled under the shoe so that the tire touch point was centered under the foot. Don't know how that affected handling.

@neauoire You're welcome. :)

@neauoire I was a bit dubious because it is in colour, but I found the full B&W film from Pathe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjtPn4orR9A I realise the technology of the heely shoes is basically the same, but here the heel is used to brake!

@neauoire search for "Chariot Skates".

@neauoire OMG!! So Ozma of Oz’s Rolly wheel guys must have come from this!

@neauoire I love this!!!

@neauoire love it 😊

@neauoire and it works too

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Skate. Roll. Bounce. Rock!

@neauoire They were trying hard to keep the two wheels from touching each other. I can see why that kind didn't catch on.

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Do you have a source for the film recording? Colored films were very rare and very expensive at the time, because it was very complex to colorize a black-and-white film afterwards.

@neauoire trust the French...originators of the penny-farthing bicycle and Citroën 2CV automobile...to invent such a fabulously silly form of wheeled transportation

@neauoire I love it, but for the fact it is colorized, which means it is no longer an honest historical artifact, but a new thing.

@neauoire I like to imagine them all becoming rollerblading Resistance fighters years later...

@neauoire The Wheelers from Return to Oz!

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I can't stop watching. Looks great.

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It evolved a bit, but still so cool https://youtu.be/olvsAKZQ1cw?si=hx1dRfVFxMcmfyXM

@neauoire they’re kind of cool. Definitely should be revived.

@neauoire ah yes, bicycle-tired mountainblades. amazing.

@neauoire those actually look way easier to use than modern ones... 🤔

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thats genius!

@neauoire this hits deep when you consider that most of them were probably knee deep in mud and guts and mustard gas a few years earlier

@neauoire Can't stop watching! 🤣🥸

@neauoire Thank you for putting this in my life. Joyous.

@neauoire Rollerblades and Nordic Walking: two in one.

@neauoire they are freaking cool, ngl. I wish I had the skill to use them.

@neauoire They look safer. A larger wheel is always safer.

@neauoire 1923 was the year the 16mm portable video camera was invented, so this is plausible, but just barely.

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Better than the modern version

@neauoire Quite impressed as well by the quality of the video. Smartphones in 1923 clearly had good cameras. 😐

@neauoire It's a shame that this footage has been colourised. I should restore it. I like that the behaviour is no different.
I tried snowboarding with ski batons, back in the day (the 2000s, not the 1920s).

@neauoire Those look more stable than rollerblades.

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what was the pavement made of?