Not none of me....
Posted on 01/02/2012 8:56:37 AM PST by navysealdad
I have seen insanity and it happens on the streets of Valparaiso, Chile. The Valparaiso Cerro Abajo Race is a legendary urban bike race and is more extreme than skydiving. The rider must brave jumps, stray dogs, and flights of stairs along the steep downhill path.
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Mmmmm. That’s very similar to my bike route to school when I was a kid- only we had snow. The hard part was going back home.
FWIW, he wasn’t wearing a helmet cam, that was me on the back holding the camera.....(and he got all the credit).
I would have been a pancake in the first few mins. LOL!
That is insane! And the video is part of it - you can’t quite see what’s coming up until the rider hits it so you get all kinds of crazy vertigo every time he hits a jump. That russian motorcyclist who made a video of himself racing through rush hour traffic in Moscow had nothing on these guys.
Wow
Absolutely insane. Made my day watching that. Nice break from the hum-drum of politics. Thanks!
gnip
At forty I would have given that a whirl. 15 plus years later, it’s great to watch. Some great side jumps!
I rather run with the bulls.
I wanted to, but my ex nixed the idea.
It was worth the wait for the high resolution download. What a ride... my shoulders got tired on the stairs and my stomach rotated on the blind jumps.
Not none of me....
Wow, we must have grown up on the same mountain!
It was a real *itch going back up while dragging my sister in her wheel chair.
Pfffftttt! You only had one sister in a wheelchair?
Only one morbidly obese (very sweet) sister but couldn’t afford wheels for her two-by-six/plywood chair.
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