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Offline JETZcorp

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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #15 on: September 18, 2010, 07:30:46 PM »
Yeah, that one is presumably from the construction of the Empire State Building, because that's what I typed into Google.


Is this Maico a 440 or only a 400?  Well in all the confusion, I forgot myself.
But considering this is a 1978 Magnum, the best-handling bike in the world, you have to ask yourself one question.
Do you feel lucky, punk?

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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #16 on: September 19, 2010, 11:58:55 AM »
I like heights it,s exciting gets your blood pumping and keep you extra sharp. When I was about 8 yrs. old, I had to climb the inside steps on a silo with a fork in 1 hand,then  pich corn siledge down. I was more worried about the gases in the silo,making me pass out. Then climbing on top of the silo, to shoot pigeons and any other birds,with my bb-pellet gun was alot of fun. Anytime I grabbed my gun,the cats where fired up. I worked as a tree trimmer-climber,your basically a human monkey with a chain saw,I moved to New Hampshire with 230 dollars in my pocket, I got the job over the phone. I worked for acme tree surgery-cool name 1st in Wi., the owners kid bankrupt the co. I  cut my knee with the chain saw at acme,36 stitches only missed 5 days of work. At a utily co. I worked for I hung pipe on bridges, with no safety harness, we had a suicde-jumper over us on a high bridge, I really didn,t want him landing on me and bring me down with him. The most fun I ever had, being high up,was bungee jumping after work with a bunch of beer in all of us, down in Florida, when your springing up and down you laugh so hard. I wanted to keep my eyes open all the way to the ground, but I blinked my hands hit the cushion. You pickup some pretty good speed,the wind is howling in your ears,then you start bungeeing,everyone wants a longer free fall, it,s a awesome feeling.

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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #17 on: September 20, 2010, 06:12:57 AM »
Its not the fall that worries me, its the sudden stop...   :o
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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #18 on: September 20, 2010, 11:09:13 PM »
This kind of thing just isn't my cup of arsenic.

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Is this Maico a 440 or only a 400?  Well in all the confusion, I forgot myself.
But considering this is a 1978 Magnum, the best-handling bike in the world, you have to ask yourself one question.
Do you feel lucky, punk?

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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #19 on: September 21, 2010, 08:51:57 PM »
One job I was involved in was the dismantling of a three story lime plant. All the dangerous work was done by members of a certain well known biker gang and they thought nothing of walking down a narrow lime covered steel I beam three stories up. There were pigeons flying everywhere and I was glad when that job ended.

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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #20 on: September 21, 2010, 09:17:05 PM »
Not a fan of heights either. :-[
My first and only bungee jump was of the Victoria Bridge in Zimbabwe back in the 90's.
110 metres straight down into the river below.
I talked the jump instructor to let me jump backwards.
Being a kiwi he believed me that I had done countless jumps. ;)
I was well and truly shitting myself.
Anyway going of backwards I think helped because I couldn't see the water rushing up to meet me. :o
Having not slept for 2 days ( the truck blew a gearbox in Malawi ), and having a lager breakfest may have helped as well. :-X
After 2 days of drama with the truck & customs, when we arrived in town the breakfast was warranted.

Sufficed to say I havn't jumped off a bridge again.
If you don't fall off you are not going hard enough

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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #21 on: September 22, 2010, 11:25:06 AM »
Modest beginings start with a single blow of a horn, man.

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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #23 on: October 02, 2010, 02:28:48 AM »
After a 30-second search, I couldn't find how many people are killed bungee jumping each year.  However, I get the impression that bungee jumping results in about as many deaths as people swimming in shark-infested waters.  Which is to say, almost zero.  Personally, I'd avoid the heights and take the shark option.  And did I ever mention that the Mako is my favorite kind of shark? :D


Is this Maico a 440 or only a 400?  Well in all the confusion, I forgot myself.
But considering this is a 1978 Magnum, the best-handling bike in the world, you have to ask yourself one question.
Do you feel lucky, punk?