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richfzs

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Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« on: 16 January 2013, 02:46:30 pm »
scary bike trail




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Re: Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #1 on: 16 January 2013, 02:52:35 pm »
balls of steel :eek or brains of marshmellow  :lol 
i know you wouldnt get me doing that !  :)

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Re: Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #2 on: 16 January 2013, 03:21:28 pm »
 :eek :eek :eek  Brave

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Re: Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #3 on: 16 January 2013, 04:55:29 pm »
 :eek  i wonder if that clown on the gsxr 1000 will have a go at that  :eek

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Re: Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #4 on: 16 January 2013, 05:20:45 pm »
I'm fairly confident that I would kill myself and sure that the bike would be trashed if I tried that

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Re: Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #5 on: 16 January 2013, 06:23:27 pm »
I have a trail bike and have riden in some daft places,  :lol  but this is something else with that drop on the right, I'm not sure if I have that level of confidence.
 

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Re: Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #6 on: 16 January 2013, 06:41:30 pm »
F**k me i got vertigo just watching it. :eek

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Re: Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #7 on: 16 January 2013, 06:55:01 pm »
I'd be getting worried just walking along that, and I only watched the first minute!

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Re: Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #8 on: 16 January 2013, 07:12:04 pm »
Couldn't even walk round that, no way. He is obviously married  :lol

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Re: Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #9 on: 16 January 2013, 07:53:31 pm »
i think if you are nuts enough in the first place then when it comes down to it you really have not got a lot of choice but to keep going ... you cant really turn round ...

You prob right Baron Von Grumble would probably try this on his GSX  :rollin

Nope cant say i would do this ... though may walk it  :rolleyes

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Re: Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #10 on: 16 January 2013, 08:04:29 pm »
f*cking ell! my arse hole was clinched so tight watching that vid i had to prise myself off with a crowbar! :eek

his mate nearly come off at 1 the 1 min mark! :eek

bet if ya stick some nobblies on the 600 you'd make it round? :look



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Re: Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #11 on: 16 January 2013, 08:28:04 pm »
At 2:45 you can see he is crazy, not brave. :eek

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Re: Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #12 on: 16 January 2013, 08:47:13 pm »
Nice bike, any idea what it was?

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« Reply #13 on: 17 January 2013, 12:15:03 am »
Couldn't even walk round that, no way. He is obviously married  :lol


 :lol :lol :lol Been there.

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Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #14 on: 17 January 2013, 08:28:27 am »
Nice bike, any idea what it was?

Ktm

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« Reply #15 on: 17 January 2013, 09:09:50 am »
I'd be getting worried just walking along that, and I only watched the first minute!

i thought the same! :)
 
 nice countryside wonder where in the world it was?

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Re: Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #16 on: 17 January 2013, 10:03:10 am »
Reminded me of
this



No bikes but a hell of lot more scary!

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Re: Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #17 on: 17 January 2013, 10:12:58 am »
He's only got to meet a goat coming round the bend in the other direction to be in for a long drop  :eek

Agreed about being mad, 2m50s in proves it.

I'd rather skydive naked and land in a pool of lava.

edit: having said that I suppose it's what your used to. Before I rode in London filtering on the motorway felt dangerous (in terms of the amount of space between vehicles).
After riding through gaps in London traffic that required a lean to the left, a lean to the right to avoid mirrors the gaps on the motorways start to look like bus-lanes.

In fact it reached a point where I started doing silly things on motorways like riding the champagne cork*. I got away with a dozen or so, but the last one proper scared me.

The cabs started drifting together when I was about half-way down the alley, so much so that by the time I got to them their wing-mirrors were overlapping completely. I swear I pulled my shoulders in stuck my head down and screamed all the way out  :eek



* 1.Find two lorries side by side (they must be side by side - if one is in front of the other by more than a couple of feet I wouldn't do it - too dangerous when you hit the wall of air pushed out by the cab)
2. Ride up the middle**
3. Use the massive low pressure area to boost your speed
4. Shoot out of the front like a champagne cork
5. (Optional) Perform a double-bird to the lorry drivers when they hoot their horns at you.


** I seriously don't recommend this unless you are a brain-dead twat (Like I evidently was)

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Re: Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #18 on: 17 January 2013, 11:24:07 am »
Reminded me of


No bikes but a hell of lot more scary!

 
now just watching that made me feel ill!!
i went up the Myan temples at Chichen-Itza in Mexico, the view was great but coming down had to go down 1 step at a time on my bum looking like a crab! sorry don't do heights!

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Re: Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #19 on: 17 January 2013, 11:50:17 am »
Reminded me of


No bikes but a hell of lot more scary!


Damn I live about 3 hours from that and I had never heard of it.  Very funny its translation is "The King's Path"  :lol

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Re: Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #20 on: 17 January 2013, 12:20:52 pm »
Very funny its translation is "The King's Path"  :lol


Apparently it's cos King Alfonso XIII crossed it once in order to open the Guadalhorce dam...(thanks Wikipedia)

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Re: Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #21 on: 17 January 2013, 12:49:20 pm »
He was about 20 years old, the path was just built... I'd like to see king Juan Carlos crossing it now :evil :lol

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Re: Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #22 on: 17 January 2013, 01:19:48 pm »
I went up Lions Rock once in Sri Lanka, the "stairs" were like pitons hammered into the sheer rock face...

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Re: Can you handle a trail bike? Confident? Sure?
« Reply #23 on: 17 January 2013, 06:51:59 pm »
I'm going upstairs tonight  :rollin