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03-22-2004, 03:45 AM #1
So I found a 40 foot huck yesterday
Seward Highway before indian in a gravel pit, 40+ feet depending on where you hit it, freaking huge, Paging Bender
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03-22-2004, 09:16 AM #2
We met a guy in Moab Saturday who said he has a 105 foot drop with a road gap planned, but is having problems with the land manager. Insane.
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "Wow, what a Ride!"
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03-22-2004, 09:27 AM #3Originally posted by altagirl
...105 foot drop with a road gap planned.
Could you possibly hope to ride that one out? So, once again, I find myself feeling like a cave-dweller; are people dropping hundred footers on bikes these days???A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Science-fiction author Robert Heinlein
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03-22-2004, 09:37 AM #4
105 feet! that's a death wish.
....hell 40 feet is insane. not sure what the record is but closer to 60 or so I think.
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03-22-2004, 09:42 AM #5
Makes no sense to me either....
Evidently part of his problem with the land manager was that he had no plans for an ambulance/EMT whatever to be present. Personally I'd go for having a life flight on standby..."Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "Wow, what a Ride!"
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03-22-2004, 10:00 AM #6Mackerel
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apologies for such a small image. Look at this fork on Bender's rig.WTF?
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03-22-2004, 10:20 AM #7Originally posted by InspectorGadget:
are people dropping hundred footers on bikes these days???
Regarding Bender, after seeing that vid where he repeatedly wrecks himself trying that huge drop in Kamloops, I have to question his style of riding. No doubt he's a better rider than me, but the fact that he's yet to get out of the qualifying rounds of the Freeride comp held in his backyard in Virgin, shows that his balls and bike seem to be doing most of the work.
But 105 feet? Hard to fathom a guy being able to ride out of that.
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03-22-2004, 10:31 AM #8Mackerel
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Yep, 105 seems impossible. As for Kamloops, that drop was 55 feet and he couldn't stick it and ended up with a severe concussion and memory loss. IMO Watson, Garcia, Klaussen and Bourdon are better technical droppers. Bender just has more Kodak courage happening when that camera rolls or that shutter is snapping.
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03-22-2004, 10:32 AM #9Originally posted by altagirl
We met a guy in Moab Saturday who said he has a 105 foot drop with a road gap planned, but is having problems with the land manager. Insane.
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03-22-2004, 02:42 PM #10Originally posted by InspectorGadget
are people dropping hundred footers on bikes these days???
Now can we bring this thread back to reality?Life is not a dress rehearsal.
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03-22-2004, 03:19 PM #11
I don't get it...why do people need bikes, skies, etc. to go over cliffs? Just walk up to the edge and friggen jump already!
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03-22-2004, 03:54 PM #12Originally posted by Lunch
No.
Now can we bring this thread back to reality?
I don't think this thread started with much, if any, reality in mind. AKPM "found a 40 foot huck yesterday", remember.
No offense intended AKPM.A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Science-fiction author Robert Heinlein
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03-23-2004, 12:54 AM #13Originally posted by InspectorGadget
Lunch,
I don't think this thread started with much, if any, reality in mind. AKPM "found a 40 foot huck yesterday", remember.
No offense intended AKPM.Its not that I suck at spelling, its that I just don't care
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03-23-2004, 01:38 AM #14Originally posted by ak_powder_monkey
Does anybody know how to get in touch with Bender? He's from up here you know, umm yeah I'd like to have him do it, the landing looked pretty good, nobody up here has the balls to hit it I thinksmoke crack and worship satan
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03-23-2004, 06:16 PM #15
He was raised in North Pole, a hick town out of squarebanks
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