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
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What about the mad French motorcycle hill climbers !!!!
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Hill and Stewart doing some formation flying at the Nurbugring;
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24 litre Napier Bentley enjoying not having launch control;
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worth looking at the full size version of that Bentley image for detail;
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Does that Hill/Stewert photo look photoshopped to you? The shadow under the car looks all wrong to me
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mentalists
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Always thought these things to be awesome and terrifying in equal measure!
Alex Honnold
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Dean Potter
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French nutters
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Gotta love those crazy Icelandic nutters
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i was mesmerised by this on The World Of Sport, on a saturday, when i was a kid.
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24Hr Track racing 😯 😯 😯
"World Record for men over 50 in a 24-hour track race of 247.59 km"
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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
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This photo gave me a little bit of vertigo/adrenaline just looking at it. Some people are amazing, thanks for posting it up.
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Fridtjof Nansen
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Not many things amaze me as much as these guys !
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Anyone who has been up close, or skied a World Cup downhill run will appreciate what it takes to ski one like this !!
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He's upside down!
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He's let go of his bars!
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He's...er..
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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.
Probably my favourite film of 2012! Travis Pastrana is kind of annoying though. The opening scene is incredible.
Geoff Rowley
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Mega ramp drop-in anyone?
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tuck knee styles... bob burnquist
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If videos are allowed:
the whole "riding down cliffs" thing is slightly insane to begin with, but 52 seconds is where it gets proper mental
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backflip whilst outrunning an avalanche. classy.
hard to beat terje for a true nutjob...
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Kittinger the man the legend
Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, OBE
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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?
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Sir Edmund Hillary
John Britten
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...perhaps
backflip whilst outrunning an avalanche. classy.
When you're that good it's probably a more convenient way of checking what's behind.
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Simon Dumont. Going postal!
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no one gets close to Ranolph Fiennes for me, as mad as a bag of monkeys.
no one gets close to Ranolph Fiennes for me, as mad as a bag of monkeys.
I like the way that whenever he's interviewed the story of him taking off his own fingers in his shed comes up, yet he never seems bored to telling it without being big headed. Can't think of many 'celebrities' who'd manage the same.
The definition of batshitmental though!
Here, here this is batshitmental. Ok so it's sitting on stilts at the moment, but if you've ever sailed one or seen one sailing, or indeed on YouTube or followed the Volvo Ocean Race, then you'd agree with me, a very sleeping Giant.
Taken on today's ride, down at Endeavour Boat Yard....
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How do you make your bike lighter before the days of carbon fibre ?
Drill holes in it. 😛
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Sailrocket.
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Very, very batshitmental. And very, very fast!