death defying shit youve seen
tripledouble
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i was driving down 76 east a couple years ago on the weekend of the greek picnic.highway was moving along at a good 50 mile clip, but definitely packed, no room to switch lanes or nothing. dude on a motorcycle in front of me was rolling along when suddenly he raises up with a wheelie...and proceeds to keep it there for a good mile. what the fuck?!?! i mean, i didn't mind that he didn't have a helmet on, but isnt a stunt like that semi dangerous??? i mean, a slight fuck up and you got a monster accident. phewwwwwwww. shit was craazy.what has everyone else seen?
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my homie was a reporter when it went down, so he rushed downtown to the scene. then shit collapsed. his stories are harrowing. there is a pic of him getting bodies out of the rubble and he is grey dread to toe. he went through 7 lives that day. he moved to albuquerque for a bunch of years before coming back home to nyc
I don't think the picture adequately conveys that this is a really, really bad idea. It's over 4000 feet of crumbling lava rock, cliffs, and thorn bushes with several intermediate ridgelines and valleys.
They ended up getting helicopter rescued. My girlfriend has pictures, I'll try and put them up.
Maybe I'm getting old, but I hate motorcycles on the freeway. They are almost always zooming in and out randomly and doing some dumb shit. It's like the bumpy lane dividers are a new "motorcycle lane" for them. If some dude did a wheelie on the freeway I'd probably say "what an asshole" semi-under my breath.
Can somebody bump that Grumpy old men thread. I think Preme started it. that was a good one.
Couldn't brake so we swerved and overtook but we were still in the middle lane coming over the next brow, praying no-one was overtaking from the oncoming way.
As we crested the hill with clenched everything, some clown in a "Magnum" Ferrari 308 overtook us in the leftmost lane i.e. the lane the oncoming traffic would be using. He got big air.
Fortunately no-one was coming either way. It would have been on the Richter scale.
seriously, I've thought about that a lot. How are these guys not wearing full body armor when they skate? To perfect any trick in any discipline means you did it wrong a whole bunch of times. If I'm working on scratching and I mess up doing a crab, it just sounds crappy. I fuck up a mctwist on a half pipe it's at least ramp rash if not a broken bone or many bruises. That's a really big penalty for the pursuit of perfection. Or these street cats who take a shot to the nuts while trying to grind a handrail? After that, I would never skate without a metal diaper ever again. I'd be looking like Iron Man and shit.
Car vs Bike there's only going to be one winner.
Me and the bike flew over the hood of the car, where I, for the first and probably last time in my life, performed a perfect somersault flip, and landed clean on my feat.
I walked away without a scratch. My bike was totalled.
(not my pic)
In LA it's legal for cycles to drive between lanes. So you'll just be cruising along and some dipship buzzes by at 100 MPH. It's a little unnerving.
whoa!!!
I've seen this a few times now and i always laugh when tony hawk says "wow, i can't believe he made the 720."
The dude could be dead and he says "wow, I can't believe he made the 720."
bmx dudes and now some of those guys doing the huge snowboard jumps use foam pits to try new tricks. that way if you're not gonna land a trick you just kick away your bike or toss your board and land in on some squishy. after that they have soft plastic ramps that you can ride away on but are a lot softer than ramp wood. nutting handrails on a skateboard though, that's just not caring about disregarding your ability to reproduce.
check this out at about 0:20.
Oooooh! that's what I'm saying. with skating there is no dry run.
Man, is it me or did that dude basically 50/50 with his nuts? It looks like he hit and then kept sliding for a little bit.
Damn,i had a similar experience coming down 9th street in BKLYN some years agao..Car ended up getting it worse then me or my bike..completely smashed the windshield with my backside..was pickin' out glass from there for a few months..Shout out to my guardian angel..