Two Stroke Motocross
Two Stroke Motocross Forum => Photos & Videos => Topic started by: ford832 on January 26, 2011, 06:04:34 PM
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http://www.wimp.com/scarytrail/ (http://www.wimp.com/scarytrail/)
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I watched five seconds of that, and then hit the little red X. I'd sooner ride with a tarantula in my shirt.
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Lol.You should have at least kept watching until he got to that little rock wall thing on the ledge :o
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:o W T F??!!
check out 2:54
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Holy crap.
That gave me vertigo just watching it. :-[
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It's a cool video, I've seen that before. The Trailsmen MC actually have a link to it. I heard that there is some riding in Washington and Idaho that's like that.
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That was terrifying to watch! They have trails like that here?? I know up in the Olympics it has gotten kind of sketchy but not like that! Although there was one time I was riding something like that but it was dirt and roots, and not so steep.
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what it looks like falling down a cliff half the size of the one in the first vid:
MOUNTAIN BIKER FALLS OFF CLIFF!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baOsltOKtEU#)
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I rode something like that accidentally once on a trail we weren't familiar with.It wasn't a bike trail and when we broke out of the woods we were on the edge of about a 30' drop.To stop meant to fall so,with the back wheel hunting on the edge(at the top it was sloped down-no flat spot to ride),I kept my eyes locked on the end about 50' away and tried to keep it steady.We both made it but I almost peed myself.We found a different way back.
BTW,nice 4t avatar factory X :D
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Wikipedia special ;D
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Stupid question of the year.
Are you alright Miles? ???
Miles: "Not really" :D
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Yup, they have trails like that here. In September, someone died on one of them. Fell off the side of a trail like that at Cle Elm or something. Gifford Pichot is another area that is supposed to have places like that.
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http://dailyrecordnews.com/news/article_09cb4f39-700a-5a0c-a4eb-09475fc6fdc9.html (http://dailyrecordnews.com/news/article_09cb4f39-700a-5a0c-a4eb-09475fc6fdc9.html)
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I wonder what crazy rider was the first first to cut that trail? Or what was going through their head?
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The closest thing I've done to a trail like that, was sort of a 45-degree field of shale, with about 1.5ft of trail in the middle of it. We'd never been there before and thought the trail might lead somewhere, and after 15 seconds we were on the shale. 45-degrees isn't as scary as a vertical cliff, of course, but if you lose your balance over the edge, you're essentially rolling on razor blades until you come to a stop. Up ahead we saw that, indeed, the trail transformed into one of the vertical-cliff specials. We all stopped, got off our bikes, spent about 15 minutes getting turned around (preferred method was three men to a bike) and then we simply went back the way we came. The whole thing was just no fun, not tremendously horrible, but just not any fun. I can't imagine how hair-raising the vertical-cliff thing must be.
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Those guys are speaking German which leads me to believe that those are centuries old trails in the Alps in the region between Austria and Italy.
I've ridden trails at Cle Elum and they are mini versions of what you see in this video.One mistake and you fall 30 ft into a rock gorge.It's o.k. on a very precise steering Maico but I don't know about a Yamaha (eh Ford?).I've also ridden Gifford Pichot and remember one extremely tight offcamber slippery rock corner with at least a 250 foot drop on one side.It was during a poker run!
At one of my riding areas there is a bridge over a creek just before a fork in the forestry roads.It was a natural place to stop and take a breather.One of my friends stopped on the bridge and went to put his foot on the ledge but missed and went down 15ft to the creek below and then his RM250 fell on top of him.He was hurt pretty bad. :-X
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The younger years were different.These days,I avoid things that are sort of "make a mistake and die" type of thing-even on a precision Yamaha. :)
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Thanks, I'll have nightmares now. I watched to 1:48 and had to stop.
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Eh...I could that on my KDX :D :o .
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I'll pass on the crash and die trails, I don't mind some off camber stuff but that was rediculous
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Yeah, see! That PROVES that only MX is for real men! Trail riding is for losers and wussies :o
Hey, is there a "crappin' my pants" emoticon? I think we need it for this one!
Regards,
M.R.
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Comparing apples to oranges!