Redbull Hardline this weekend
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Re: Redbull Hardline this weekend
I think I enjoy watching the stuff from during the build up more than I do the event itself 
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Re: Redbull Hardline this weekend
I might be wrong, but is it all about skill, bollox all suspension. 
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Re: Redbull Hardline this weekend
Nope, that looks like something a stunt team on a film set would design.
Q though, how big and 'hard' can they go before someone gets seriously injured or killed? I get that they want to outdo the previous years, but surely at some stage, enough is enough?
I enjoy watching it, but it also scares me stupid on occasion ... and i'm only sitting on the sofa.
Q though, how big and 'hard' can they go before someone gets seriously injured or killed? I get that they want to outdo the previous years, but surely at some stage, enough is enough?
I enjoy watching it, but it also scares me stupid on occasion ... and i'm only sitting on the sofa.
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Re: Redbull Hardline this weekend
I'd like to see the disclaimers that the riders have to sign! (Same for most of the Red Bull stuff tbh. I saw them racing aircraft threading around Canary Wharf. OK most of the time they were supposed to be on a course over water but it is an obstacle course. It only takes one mechanical failure.....and the buildings aren't far away).
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Re: Redbull Hardline this weekend
It's a tricky one isn't it... it's not called Easyline... but i can see how there ought to be a modicum of sanity to it. Make it incredbly tricky, but without insane consequences, there was a rocky section on the older course (may be on this one still) which was proper tricky, but you're falling off and losing time, not shattering your spine.
Last year though was a 95' gap... even if that's lower in terms of height, if you land short the consequences are still high, but unlikely life threatening.
However, these are the best of the best... at riding but also at these particular types of riding... There's been plenty of coverage of Jim Monro ... his attempt was... eventful !
Last year though was a 95' gap... even if that's lower in terms of height, if you land short the consequences are still high, but unlikely life threatening.
However, these are the best of the best... at riding but also at these particular types of riding... There's been plenty of coverage of Jim Monro ... his attempt was... eventful !
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Re: Redbull Hardline this weekend
Too much IMO. Get that wrong, mechanical, gust of wind etc and it’s 
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Re: Redbull Hardline this weekend
A step too far for me. It's all a bit Evel Knievel, never liked all that stuff very much either.
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Re: Redbull Hardline this weekend
Apparently they've gone with plan B and the jump is no longer being used
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Re: Redbull Hardline this weekend
It's a whole different world. The thing that some people forget is that most of these features to them are actually OK. the road gap to me, you, 99.9% of people is INSANE.. but to these lot, well it's not too bad... Just hit it. LOL.
I'd be inclined to agree on the consequences though, i don't feel consequences should be a major factor in race tracks. Sure things can go wrong of course with just about everything, but this really is pretty dramatic in terms of possibilities.