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Old 06-26-2012, 09:29 PM   #1711
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Snake + 250kmh = pucker!

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Old 06-27-2012, 04:15 AM   #1712
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Old 06-27-2012, 01:46 PM   #1713
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Along those lines, just recently Leno's Garage featured a rider from a pre-1916 motorcycle Cannonball run - makes for a good interview, but not hyped up for typical American audiences like the video you posted:




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Old 06-28-2012, 08:04 AM   #1714
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I did search "inurl:http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=402779 perception", so if this is 205, it's not my damn fault!

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Old 07-02-2012, 10:28 AM   #1715
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Old 07-02-2012, 12:03 PM   #1716
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No. No. That's just not possible. No effin' way.
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Old 07-06-2012, 02:17 PM   #1717
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No. No. That's just not possible. No effin' way.
I thought you were talking about every clip. Until I saw the next one.
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Old 07-06-2012, 05:21 PM   #1718
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No. No. That's just not possible. No effin' way.
If squirrels rode motorcycles that's how they'd do it.
That scaffolding doesn't look like it's the same kind as that rickety assed shit I used to work from.
Spotter dude has brass balls his own self.
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Old 07-07-2012, 10:31 AM   #1719
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this one's pretty good...



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Old 07-07-2012, 11:31 AM   #1720
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I liek that last one. Very mellow. Hadn't heard that Mos Def song before +1
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Old 07-07-2012, 04:00 PM   #1721
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I just tried that round my living room on the Triumph Scrambler. What a fkn disaster! Just as well it's 2 more weeks before the wife and kids get back from their trip...
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Old 07-07-2012, 04:32 PM   #1722
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Old 07-07-2012, 05:33 PM   #1723
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I just tried that round my living room on the Triumph Scrambler. What a fkn disaster! Just as well it's 2 more weeks before the wife and kids get back from their trip...
Awesome, thanks for the ear to ear grin. Can I come over and try?

Actually I think Maui might be a bit far.
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Old 07-09-2012, 06:31 AM   #1724
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Spotter dude has brass balls his own self.
I was thinking the same thing. That fall would be fatal!
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Old 07-09-2012, 08:26 AM   #1725
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I was thinking the same thing. That fall could be fatal!
Edit. I am guessing it to be 25'

I fell 28' back in 1991 and walked away. (not knowing that I had compression fractured my heels and neck) Adrenalin is a funny thing.
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