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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sasquatch Jim on September 29, 2015, 01:17:53 PM
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For those of you who are risk takers, here is your idol.
More than 209 MPH for more than a kilometer with the front wheel off the ground.
Near the end a side gust caused a near pants poo-ing by the rider just before touchdown.
He was stabilized by one testicle the size of a basketball made of brass and the other was a big heavy thing.
http://www.gizmag.com/gary-rothwell-breaks-world-wheelie-record/39551/
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Boy ain't right .
Dusty
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209mph for more than a kilometer? Why not 305.5fps for more than 5 furlongs?*
*the point being any time you see the units like miles and kilometers mismatched be suspicious of the claim.
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I was just having an email exchange with a friend, about risks and rewards relative to flying in wing suits. This isn't much different. My conclusion is that I'd rather live to experience many smaller risks over a couple more decades than blow it all in a couple really adrenaline releasing events. I guess that's the relatively conservative approach.
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I was just having an email exchange with a friend, about risks and rewards relative to flying in wing suits. This isn't much different. My conclusion is that I'd rather live to experience many smaller risks over a couple more decades than blow it all in a couple really adrenaline releasing events. I guess that's the relatively conservative approach.
Mine too. I'm highly impressed by the skill needed to balance the forces acting on that bike.
But I have to confess that when (like the last wingsuit guy and a couple of "xtreme sport" guys since) Gary goes to his long home soon, I'm going to just be like "Well, he died doing what he wanted to do" and probably won't need a Kleenex. Not the best attitude, but there it is .... We all do "somewhat" risky things, like ride a street motorcycle on the public roads, but there's an understood line and dude is WAY past it .... !
Lannis
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And of course there's the thing about young people being willing to take more risk. Something about the brain not being fully developed until age 25, so a less than mature understanding of risk. I remember when I was in my late teens and early 20s, having an attitude about risk that I was somewhat lucky to live through.
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We all do "somewhat" risky things, like ride a street motorcycle on the public roads, but there's an understood line and dude is WAY past it .... !
Lannis
May have misread the piece ... on my phone's itty-bitty screen ... but thought this was on an airfield runway.
Bill
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that bike does look like it can do 209mph
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May have misread the piece ... on my phone's itty-bitty screen ... but thought this was on an airfield runway.
Bill
It IS. It's on a controlled racetrack. No one at risk but him.
He's riding a 540 horsepower motorcycle in a wheelie against who knows how many pound of air pressure. If he misses his judgment by just a FRACTION, he's dead.
It's not the same kind of risk we might take going around a corner hard on the street. We MIGHT hit a tree or go under a truck and die if we misjudge a tiny bit, but that's not certain and we wear gear to mitigate the risk.
There's no mitigating the risk that this guy's taking. That bike wobbles or goes over backward at 209 MPH, he's not in a streamliner cage or a NASCAR cockpit, he's just dead ...
That's why I say that "the line" is way behind him somewhere, and I'm somewhere behind that .... !
Lannis
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Rothwell does this stuff for a living , kinda like the guys that erect 300' towers , all in a days work .
Dusty
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And of course there's the thing about young people being willing to take more risk. Something about the brain not being fully developed until age 25, so a less than mature understanding of risk. I remember when I was in my late teens and early 20s, having an attitude about risk that I was somewhat lucky to live through.
That's why they send them off to war when they're young.
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209mph for more than a kilometer? Why not 305.5fps for more than 5 furlongs?*
*the point being any time you see the units like miles and kilometers mismatched be suspicious of the claim.
And the speed of light is .......... 1.80262 x 10^12 furlongs/fortnight. Useful piece of info to have.
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And the speed of light is .......... 1.80262 x 10^12 furlongs/fortnight. Useful piece of info to have.
In Oklahoma we use "Furpiece" as a measurement . Eastern part of the state it might mean a couple of miles , Western part it usually equates to 40 miles or more .
If a train leaves Tulsa traveling at 35 furpieces per hour headed for Guymon ... You can see the problem , as the measurement is going to change about 50 miles West of Tulsa , and not at a constant rate either :laugh:
Dusty
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Rothwell does this stuff for a living , kinda like the guys that erect 300' towers , all in a days work .
That might not be such a good analogy, Dusty. Tower work is quite safe if it's done properly, much like working on power lines. I've been up multi-hundred foot towers, but I'm connected to the tower with not only a lanyard, but by a fall protection harness too. In fact, if I weren't, my hands would probably be sweating so much I'd slip off. :laugh:
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In Oklahoma we use "Furpiece" as a measurement . Eastern part of the state it might mean a couple of miles , Western part it usually equates to 40 miles or more .
If a train leaves Tulsa traveling at 35 furpieces per hour headed for Guymon ... You can see the problem , as the measurement is going to change about 50 miles West of Tulsa , and not at a constant rate either :laugh:
Dusty
In Alaska we measure furpieces and then we wear them.
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That might not be such a good analogy, Dusty. Tower work is quite safe if it's done properly, much like working on power lines. I've been up multi-hundred foot towers, but I'm connected to the tower with not only a lanyard, but by a fall protection harness too. In fact, if I weren't, my hands would probably be sweating so much I'd slip off. :laugh:
OK then , compare it to being a game ranger , everyone you deal with is armed , and a fair few of them are drunk with an attitude :laugh: Seriously , no matter how well connected to the tower one is , it would still scare the poo out of most folks.
In Alaska we measure furpieces and then we wear them.
How many Alaskans wearing furpieces does it take to reach Chicago :huh:
Dusty
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OK then , compare it to being a game ranger , everyone you deal with is armed , and a fair few of them are drunk with an attitude :laugh: Seriously , no matter how well connected to the tower one is , it would still scare the poo out of most folks.
Dusty
I know that it's a rule that if I have an opinion different from yours, it's a requirement that you say something about it, and that's fine.
But comparing climbing a transmission tower in safety gear and a lanyard, or being a Game Warden, from a safety and risk standpoint with doing a 209 mph wheelie on a 500 horsepower motorcycle .... I mean, that's just dumb. Really.
But maybe it was just a joke, I can't tell sometimes. :blank:
Lannis
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I know that it's a rule that if I have an opinion different from yours, it's a requirement that you say something about it, and that's fine.
But comparing climbing a transmission tower in safety gear and a lanyard, or being a Game Warden, from a safety and risk standpoint with doing a 209 mph wheelie on a 500 horsepower motorcycle .... I mean, that's just dumb. Really.
But maybe it was just a joke, I can't tell sometimes. :blank:
Lannis
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My point is , to this fella it is all in a day's work . It would scare me silly , but like Jim , I've worked high in the air W/O peeing in my pants , and folks called me crazy . Getting in the ring with Rhonda Rousey , now that IS crazy , but other girls seem to be lining up for the privilege of having her put a whoopin on them .
Dusty
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How many Alaskans wearing furpieces does it take to reach Chicago :huh:
Dusty
We'll never know on account of why would we want to reach Chicago? :huh:
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We'll never know on account of why would we want to reach Chicago? :huh:
Hey! I was going to ask that.
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I am gonna drink a PBR in this guy's honor!
Bill Lovelady IS
Eskino Spy
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Climbing a transmission tower ==
Convert or
4 speed or
5 speed ??
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quote - And the speed of light is .......... 1.80262 x 10^12 furlongs/fortnight. Useful piece of info to have.
So at that velocity how long will it take a grasshopper with a wooden leg to kick all the seeds out of a dill pickle?
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Now with Link to video
He tries to grab 7th gear :shocked: that thing must've been just pulling like a freight train
http://youtu.be/JHn9svO-R9A (http://youtu.be/JHn9svO-R9A)
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He tries to grab 7th gear :shocked: that thing must've been just pulling like a freight train
Don't we all try for one more gear, just to make sure we're at the top? :grin:
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Don't we all try for one more gear, just to make sure we're at the top? :grin:
Only if I'm too lazy at the moment to glance down at the tach .... !
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My guess is that some serious computer modeling went into the fairing for that bike. I don't think it would be possible to keep from flipping backwards at that speed with a stock setup.
Still, totally crazy and an awesome feat.