X-games, Country Edition:
https://imgur.com/bd5ULGP
Will definitely achieve terminal velocity.pun
Not getting added to my house. My wife wouldn't even let me ski off the roof after a bit snowstorm (pointing out that with 6 feet of snow on the ground I probably wouldn't get hurt, but if I did, the ambulance wasnt coming for days)
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ovobjs/every_second_day_in_australia/
https://v.redd.it/27sxz00h1xi71
surprising
I'd like to see a closeup of that bike. It looks like a heavy cruiser, but I'm thinking it must have been modified in some ways to be a better hill climber.
That guy is totally crazy. He got within six feet of some of those spectators and wasn't wearing a mask. Maybe the video was taken pre-Delta.
> modified
I bet those were not street tires.
I think it's a straight street bike. The way he had to keep the throttle up and just rode it out, I'm pretty sure those are slicks.
When You Have 100% Control Over Bike And No Obstacle Can Stop You.
https://gfycat.com/vengefulevenhylaeosaurus
Amazing. Have you seen the Toni Bou videos?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_tAPWcLfmI
>When You Have 100% Control Over Bike And No Obstacle Can Stop You.
Unstoppable! Must be a Yamaha.
>Toni Bou
Hadn't seen that. Think he spends much time on a bike?
>>Think he spends much time on a bike?
I think he just got bored during lockdown and decided he'd try riding a motorcycle.
PS - I bought my first motorcycle when I was 14 with money I had made from farm labor and shoveling snow and other things a 14 yo could do (and, fortunately, whose family did not need him to contribute that money to anything useful). Most kids went for motocross bikes. For reasons I don't remember, I bought a 80cc Yamaha trials bike. I was really into hill climbs and obstacles, but was never that good at it, mostly because I just went up the same hills and over the same logs day after day. All that torque (for an 80cc anyway) and maneuverability was cool, but when I got my first job at 16, I got a used motocross bike because trials bikes have very low top speeds.
Anyway, I still find both machine-powered and human-powered trials riding interesting and cannot believe how much they've progressed. Riding that would have made you a world champ in 1975 won't get you to the finals of a regional comp today.
For human-powered riding, check out Danny McKaskill.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9kOkY1nYc0uADWRiRH64Rw
This one is the one that made him famous in 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z19zFlPah-o
This is The Ridge, his next most famous video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_IQS3VKjA
>80cc Yammer
>14 yr old money
I *almost* bought a Zundapp KS750 with my 16 yr old money. This is the ONE time that Debbie told me that this machine would most definitely kill me. Every other time, she'd say "Go ahead, I'll hold your jacket."
....I still wish I'd bought it.
Zundapp KS750: 1941-1944 | Rider Magazine
https://ridermagazine.com/2006/10/21/retrospective-zundapp-ks750-1941-1944/
>>Zundapp
Interesting. I never really thought about why the German army was always shown in movies as having those ridiculous sidecars.
One of the paradoxes is that the 16 year olds who should be disqualified from owning a powerful street bike are any of them that want them.
Still... did you look at and of the Danny McCaskill videos? If you're risk tolerance is high enough, I think you can get pretty dead on a bicycle too.
>look
I'd seen The Ridge a few times on /r.
>you can get pretty dead on a bicycle too
I got pretty close to dead a few times on my bikes, then I moved up to hydroplanes at 13. ...And got REALLY close.
Ha! Sure.
I guess for me, most of the times I almost got myself killed there was no vehicle involved at all. Just hands, feet and questionable judgement.
I'm sure you've heard the following, popular in the military: You can die in three weeks without food, three days without water, three minutes without air, three seconds without paying attention. That's pretty true for mountaineering as well.
https://old.reddit.com/r/WhyWomenLiveLonger/
>> three weeks
Add to that list ... three hours without body temperature regulation, and three months without hope.