Luckiest Cyclist in the World
05-18-10 | 10:27 PM
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Leo
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05-18-10 | 10:41 PM
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You gonna eat that?
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Whoa! 
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I stop for people / whose right of way I honor / but not for no one.
Originally Posted by bragi 
"However, it's never a good idea to overgeneralize."
I stop for people / whose right of way I honor / but not for no one.
Originally Posted by bragi "However, it's never a good idea to overgeneralize."
05-18-10 | 11:44 PM
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I wanna go fast!!!!!!!!!
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WOW...and that is my biggest fear of intersections displayed right before my eyes. You can take as many precautions as you want about where you need to be to avoid a moving vehicle that is actively being piloted by a driver, even an unpredictable one. But once those f*ckers make contact and start spinning and sliding all you have is luck (I guess, unless you have the space and the power/brakes to react aka car/motorcycle, and even then you're gonna need some luck). Dude truly has horseshoes up his butt. Things like this scare me in a car, on a bike or as a pedestrian.
05-19-10 | 07:40 AM
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Pedaled too far.
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From: La Petite Roche
The Force was definitely with him.
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05-19-10 | 08:54 AM
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You gonna eat that?
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05-19-10 | 12:34 PM
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There's another thread with a different animated gif of this same event, in the A&S forum. I was pretty sure it was a fake, but ( without knowing much about 4D modeling software ) I'm guessing it would be twice as intensive two make two fake videos.
Pretty insane. That's a lot of debris to go through the wheels...!
Pretty insane. That's a lot of debris to go through the wheels...!
05-19-10 | 07:58 PM
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05-19-10 | 08:41 PM
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05-20-10 | 12:17 PM
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Is this real?! Why was there no reaction elicited from the biker? Did it just happen too fast? I mean it seems like he didn't even divert from his path! I think I soiled myself...