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I`ve found the time to watch it all now ........ a couple more amusing tales ........

Keith found a print out from 1979 showing prize money from a UK race meeting .......... Kenny Roberts was there at the top of the list , and did well , pocketing £10,000 ........ Keith was right at the bottom , with just £25 .........

Neil Hodgson showed this list to Kenny during an interview ......... " Look , there`s you at the top with £10,000 ...... and Keith at the bottom with just £25...........

Roberts looks at the camera , and drawls " Well , I guess we both got overpaid that day ......... " ............
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That'll encourage me to watch it.
 

Another one for those who like heights ....... "road " created by locals using hammers back in 1991 ......... repaired modern road below , but she says some elderly still prefer to go this way because they get car-sick .... !

I think I`d rather get car -sick ..........

Apparently apart from the height , you can also get monkeys throwing rocks at you from above ........

Chinese a lot braver than me ..... but with a population of 1.42 billion , I guess they can afford to lose a few off the edge of a cliff every now and again ........
 
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Social media bullshit.
People have probably been doing it for hundreds of years without all the bullshit. Just a part of life living where they do. Think of the crew that actually carved that track. Bet they didn't make a big deal about it.
 

.... forget whatever I posted before ...... I`ve just found something a hundred times worse ...........

Some say when they did it 40 years ago , there was no safety harness ........
 
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I would shit myself. I have a curious relationship with height. I don't mind being far off the ground and have happily dangled under hang gliders, but I can't stand being near the edge of something. A precipice seems to create a weird force that turns the back of my knees to jelly and pulls me to the edge, and an imagined splattery doom. Not for me, eeek, just watching the vid is bad enough 😱
 
I have a harrowing story involving an open-ended crane box I was squatting in at said open end and a crane on a 68 storie building that still gives me PTSD 47 years ago. It was a very long 15-minute ride. If the sling on that box had slipped ...
 
You`d have to shoot me before I would even consider doing anything like that Hua Shan plank walk ........... In fact , if I had a choice , that would be the preferable way to go .........

What gets me is this appears to be just ordinary visitors / tourists ...... being young and having a lack of imagination obviously helps .

Other things ........ the harness guy in the blue jacket with the wad of bank notes in his hand ....... people actually pay to do this ? .......... and the way you have to unclip your harness every couple of feet whilst holding on with one hand .........

And then there`s having to squeeze past other people coming back the other way whilst clipping and unclipping your harness on a plank just 12 " wide ........... and the even narrower SLOPING narrow ledge you have to transverse before you reach the plank itself ...........

I also wonder how many cases of people freezing / getting panic attacks they have ........ There is a video short of one guy going into panic mode on this very walk ......... although the general opinion is that he`s just hamming it up for the camera ........ probably not a good idea seeing how crowded it is , and how close he was to other people .......... some might think it`s for real ...........

If it were me it definitely would be for real .......

No No No ..................
 
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I once mistakenly said yes to a rock climb and very much regretted it. I had done some climbing before and enjoyed it - always scared at some point of a climb, but the enourmous thrill of getting to the top was the dividend.

Having enjoyed a climb earlier in an 'adventure outdoors' week away, I was flush with confidence and chose another climb as my end-of-week special event. But, this time I was up there with the proper boys, with their big balls, ridiculously defined muscles and long limbs. I was way out of my pebble-climbing league.

Anyway, I did indeed freeze on the rock face, half way up and was stuck for about 20 minutes. I was doing OK until I glanced over my shoulder to the bottom and my world went into a spin. A leader had to make his way back down to me and talk me around into sensibility. It was a master class in physiological manipulation. I was physically locked-hard on to my holds and just could not release, or move, even when my mind told my fingers to let go This was probably lucky because the first few guys (piss takers) that tried to ‘help’ me would have had their heads torn off if my hands were free - I was utterly terrified. Going back down was not an option and the only way was up – done very very slowly. And, yes, the urge to jump off and end the emotional agony was real.

The point of my little story - yes, as rocketonarail says, those folk on the Chinese rock face were taking a risk that some prick (me) could panic and cause all sorts of calamity and mayhem.

My fateful last ever high climb was on the Llanberis Pass in Snowdonia. Never, ever, again. This kinda fuckin’ madness… roped-on by professionals, lots of holds, but a certain 'verticality' to unsettle the soul....
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rocketonarail said:
.......... and the way you have to unclip your harness every couple of feet whilst holding on with one hand .........

No No No ..................
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Not as bad as it looks - the harness has an interconnected clip system so that you are always attached by one or both ropes - you can't open both clips at the same time. I'm terrified of heights without a rope or harness, but I've abseiled off a 180m cliff in Freycinet and off the top of Wrest Point Casino in Tasmania. I've used that special clip system on a tree ropes course (with young kids at a birthday outing). Once you knoiw you can't fall (ie die) it's a lot easier.
 
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Anyway, I did indeed freeze on the rock face, half way up and was stuck for about 20 minutes. I was doing OK until I glanced over my shoulder to the bottom and my world went into a spin. A leader had to make his way back down to me and talk me around into sensibility. It was a master class in physiological manipulation. I was physically locked-hard on to my holds and just could not release, or move, even when my mind told my fingers to let go
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My exact experience in that Crane box. I asked the DOGMAN for a ride, I had done it once before in a bigger box standing up and against a solid side. Good fun, this time he said duck down squatting in the open end and holding onto the end of the open box. Fine till halfway up. I looked up at the sling and suddenly thought if it slipped a little bit and tipped a little bit there was no way could hold on. That resulted in me clenching my hands REALLY hard. onto the ends of the box, I couldn't move, and standing up would not happen. Time seemed to stop, it seemed like I was there for hours. Anyway, I didnt fall to my death onto Martin Place, but I did lose any desire to get close to any high place for a very long time. Even now I get THAT FEELING, never had it before that event. BTW in those days, the DOGMEN rode the hook all the time. That's now banned.
 

..... want excitement ? ........ get yourself a Harley ............ or a Gay Couch , as the `Glides are otherwise known in the USA .........

600 lbs , 45 bhp , plus a milkshake , won`t necessarily result in a burnout .........

... " why would they do that ? "......... why do pyromaniacs light fires ? ..........
 
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..... actually , Harleys can be fun as well .... as this guy from NYC shows ............

Watching this almost makes me want to go out and find a Tour Glide just like his ........... In fact , I would say these `80`s Harley Davidsons have much in common with the Breganze Laverdas .........

Both are simply designed , robustly built , easy to maintain , and easy to fix .......... and both are capable of covering vast mileages with minimum effort .........

In fact , at the moment , my dream garage would consist of this Tour Glide , plus my old Mirage ......( not much hope of getting that back though ) ........... and that would be it ............. although by this time tomorrow I will have probably changed my mind / started thinking sensibly again ...........
 
When the Evos first came available a few mates bought them and I snaveled a ride. They were ok, just a bit boring. What did surprise me was the Shovel I also rode. I really liked it a lot. It handled pretty well, and had huge toque sorry Brett TORQUE out of corners and rumbled in a really pleasant way. For some odd reason as I usually dont like bikes that vibreat as again for some odd reason I seem to only buy bikes that do vibrate a lot, I missed the vibrations that rubber-mounted Evos didn't have and that solidly mounted Shovels do. My biggest complaints were shit brakes and lack of ground clearance. The Shovel did feel a bit Laverda-like,
 
Charley said:
Completely unashamed of my joy of riding my Sportster. Like my Laverda 3CL it’s a very immersive experience. Love it.
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I had an XLX 1000 sportster ( like that but with flat bars and triple discs) I bought to see what all the Harley thing was all about. I rode it to work everyday, all weather for a year and to be honest it wasn’t particularly good at anything. I gave it a fair crack of the whip to see if it would grow on me..it didn’t. To each his own as they say.
 
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