In honour of the rather marvellous thread about bikes on the ‘Bay…..

Let’s have a thread to celebrate the bonkers in sport, the slightly unhinged lunacy, the eccentric oddity. Etc.

Like these idiots

What about the mad French motorcycle hill climbers !!!!

Hill and Stewart doing some formation flying at the Nurbugring;

24 litre Napier Bentley enjoying not having launch control;

worth looking at the full size version of that Bentley image for detail;

http://www.wfmu.org/Gfx/user_images/napier_20bentley_3588776882277605.jpg

Does that Hill/Stewert photo look photoshopped to you? The shadow under the car looks all wrong to me

mentalists

Always thought these things to be awesome and terrifying in equal measure!

Alex Honnold

Dean Potter

French nutters
[video]http://vimeo.com/31240369[/video]

Gotta love those crazy Icelandic nutters

i was mesmerised by this on The World Of Sport, on a saturday, when i was a kid.

24Hr Track racing 😯 😯 😯
“World Record for men over 50 in a 24-hour track race of 247.59 km”

24 Hr xc run\MTBing\road bike\adventure race yes
yep I can get those but 24hrs running around a track “batshitmental”!!!!! in my book anyway.
impressive though

This photo gave me a little bit of vertigo/adrenaline just looking at it. Some people are amazing, thanks for posting it up.

Fridtjof Nansen

Lean about him here

Not many things amaze me as much as these guys !

Anyone who has been up close, or skied a World Cup downhill run will appreciate what it takes to ski one like this !!

He’s upside down!

He’s let go of his bars!

He’s…er..

Anyone who has been up close, or skied a World Cup downhill run will appreciate what it takes to ski one like this !!

Hell yes! Utterly batshitmental! To just ski it at a decent pace is one thing, but at the speeds they go? Bonkers.

Ha ha sidecar moto x utterley certifiable 😆

Been to the Fram museum in Oslo, brilliant to see.

Great thread will post some photos when I get home from work.

Martin Schanche anyone??? another mental Norwegian.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6ojnBLJZZc[/video]

Probably my favourite film of 2012! Travis Pastrana is kind of annoying though. The opening scene is incredible.

Geoff Rowley

Mega ramp drop-in anyone?

tuck knee styles… bob burnquist

Dem boys 😯

If videos are allowed:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EyiO2dFym0c[/video]

the whole “riding down cliffs” thing is slightly insane to begin with, but 52 seconds is where it gets proper mental

backflip whilst outrunning an avalanche. classy.

[video]http://vimeo.com/6328896[/video]

hard to beat terje for a true nutjob…

Kittinger the man the legend

Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, OBE

Over 60? Had a double heart bypass operation? Amputated your own fingertips due to frostbite?
Why not run seven marathons in seven days on seven continents? Then climb the north face of the Eiger and Everest?

Sir Edmund Hillary

John Britten

…perhaps

backflip whilst outrunning an avalanche. classy.

When you’re that good it’s probably a more convenient way of checking what’s behind.

Simon Dumont. Going postal!