14 mins in....I wouldn't even walk that trail!
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Bike ride...
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Re: Bike ride...
Oh well, I suppose everybody needs to get their 15 minutes of fame in one way or another. Whether you live to make it 60 minutes is in the lap of the gods. 
I have a memory of a TV prog which featured the world's fastest free climber, scaling some monstrous vertical face at a world-record-breaking pace. It was thrilling stuff, in a bowel-loosening sort of way. (Let's face it, a loose bowel would be the last thing you'd want in that situation.
) But when they showed the programme on repeat, they had to report that he'd come down a rock at gravitational speed and was no more. I'm pretty sure it was this guy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50592646. I never did get the hang of what motivates those people.
BJ
I have a memory of a TV prog which featured the world's fastest free climber, scaling some monstrous vertical face at a world-record-breaking pace. It was thrilling stuff, in a bowel-loosening sort of way. (Let's face it, a loose bowel would be the last thing you'd want in that situation.
) But when they showed the programme on repeat, they had to report that he'd come down a rock at gravitational speed and was no more. I'm pretty sure it was this guy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50592646. I never did get the hang of what motivates those people.BJ
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Re: Bike ride...
bungeejumper wrote:I never did get the hang of what motivates those people.
BJ
me neither...
sensation seekers
with a screw loose
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Re: Bike ride...
I've never done anything to compare to that ride. If I rode that trail it would be slowly, and dismounting at scary moments!
But I have from time to time stretched myself beyond what's strictly wise in the mountains. And the thought has crossed my mind: if I can't make it, at least I've died doing something I enjoy. On one such occasion - crossing a high alpine pass (including glacier) when the weather took a turn - I read a day or two later that the weather that night had indeed claimed quite a number of lives.
And I'm reminded of an absolutely non-scary, non-challenging ride (I think it was a stretch of coast path near Minehead) when I came upon a sign pointing back the way I'd come saying "dangerous path" and offering an "alternative path".
But I have from time to time stretched myself beyond what's strictly wise in the mountains. And the thought has crossed my mind: if I can't make it, at least I've died doing something I enjoy. On one such occasion - crossing a high alpine pass (including glacier) when the weather took a turn - I read a day or two later that the weather that night had indeed claimed quite a number of lives.
And I'm reminded of an absolutely non-scary, non-challenging ride (I think it was a stretch of coast path near Minehead) when I came upon a sign pointing back the way I'd come saying "dangerous path" and offering an "alternative path".
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