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One awesome spotlanding, sort off.

Near misses, close calls, and lessons learned the hard way. Share with others so that they might avoid the same mistakes.
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Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:47 am

One awesome spotlanding, sort off.

http://specials.msn.com/msnvideo/video? ... snhpvidmod
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Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:52 am

Re: One awesome spotlanding, sort off.

Holy Shit!

What a combination of balls, brains, and stupid.

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Sun Oct 28, 2012 8:13 am

Re: One awesome spotlanding, sort off.

PT Barnum, modified: There's another fool born every minute.

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Sun Oct 28, 2012 8:24 am

Re: One awesome spotlanding, sort off.

GumpAir wrote:Holy Shit!

What a combination of balls, brains, and stupid.

Gump


Yeah, also luck and some skill. But I guess you said that.....just more colorfully! I mean look at the clearance he had to those trees when his canopy opened, and how would you practice for that landing?? I don't know how long that vid has been out there but damn it sure popped my eyes open :shock:
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Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:21 am

Re: One awesome spotlanding, sort off.

Wonder what the ramp looked like, shit load of trees to top!! Landing strip not all that wide coming from his angle!!
Way better than the photo shopped water slide into the hot tub!
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Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:34 am

Re: One awesome spotlanding, sort off.

That dude is excellent! These amateur daredevils deserve more credit than they get. I am not excellent but tried to be back in '91 or so. Somehow, at an auction, we scored the first Honda three-wheeler invented--the kind with the big balloon tires with no sidewall. Not doing my math like the guy in the video i was going to ramp it in our new muddy pond.

So, without the math your ATV never really becomes airborne. At full speed it sort of just noses down into the water and you follow it. We sacrificed the engineering for a safety crew. My buddy who was an EMT chucked a tractor inter-tube near the spot of immersion. I came to the surface just in time to be knocked back under.

We learned a lot. It became clear that if we could get some BIGGER TIRES it would work. Luckily, by the time we got the water out of the carburetor we had moved on to black powder.
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Sun Oct 28, 2012 1:21 pm

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Great find. Close to getting on the Darwin Awards.
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Sun Oct 28, 2012 2:31 pm

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The EPA is gonna get on him like stink on shit, for dumping his bike into pristine waters.
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Sun Oct 28, 2012 6:19 pm

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exodus wrote:The EPA is gonna get on him like stink on shit, for dumping his bike into pristine waters.


Since it was in Finland, one would hope its outside EPA's reach..... :lol:
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Sun Oct 28, 2012 6:31 pm

Re: One awesome spotlanding, sort off.

Sig220 wrote:
exodus wrote:The EPA is gonna get on him like stink on shit, for dumping his bike into pristine waters.


Since it was in Finland, one would hope its outside EPA's reach..... :lol:


Jeeez... I should have read the small print. Thanks
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Sun Oct 28, 2012 6:52 pm

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That was freaking AWESOME !
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Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:38 am

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The best thing about that video is that this was what it looked like when everything went RIGHT!

Just like any other batshit crazy stunt, I'm sure the list of other potential outcomes was as long as it was unattractive.
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