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    I watched a minute into the vid and if i survived even close to that i saw a few tress and rock that had my name on them

    That is just crazy!!!!!
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    I'm fairly sure it's all done with computers and special effects. Video doesn't even begin to give a sense of how gravity is tugging at him when he's doing all those split second avoidance of death stuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by IdolEyes787 View Post
    I'm fairly sure it's all done with computers and special effects. Video doesn't even begin to give a sense of how gravity is tugging at him when he's doing all those split second avoidance of death stuff.
    So you don't think it is real?? He is really going down the track but not at those speeds?? I looked at the front tire of the bike and it is collecting dirt so he is really riding down the track, the question i would have is how many tries did it take to finish the track....

    And it was unusual to see you post a success, usually you like to show the crashes

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    Quote Originally Posted by IdolEyes787 View Post
    I'm fairly sure it's all done with computers and special effects. Video doesn't even begin to give a sense of how gravity is tugging at him when he's doing all those split second avoidance of death stuff.
    I've done a bit of MX and berserking in the woods on pedals, and I will say knowing the course counts for all the marbles, long as you can ride; that said, that course, at that pace, flawlessly?

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    For the record I was being facetious. It's a World Cup competition and not a David Beckham Pepsi commerical.
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    For the record, that sort of extended perfection is awfully difficult to achieve, even for a World Cup competitor.

    Call it a once-in-a-lifetime feat.

    Not saying it couldn't/didn't happen, but it qualifies as a minor miracle.
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    It doesn't hurt that the equipment nowadays is so much better than it use to be. I'd owe a lot of it to that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by IdolEyes787 View Post
    It doesn't hurt that the equipment nowadays is so much better than it use to be. I'd owe a lot of it to that.

    True enough - what I wouldn't have given to have equipment like that...

    Anyway, the vision and precision-of-attack is phenomenally good; one would think several clean reps would have to have preceded that run.
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    There's a lot of people here braver than I

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    Quote Originally Posted by grablect View Post
    There's a lot of people here braver than I
    What do you mean?

    Maybe you should substitute 'dumber'.

    I did that kind of stuff off-hand when I was young - never that well, mind you, but.

    Bottom line is, no matter how good you are at it, none of it will survive a couple of the wrong kind of crashes.

    For a long time, I didn't crash, but once I started I couldn't stop.

    Big flame-out.
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