Author Topic: Never in a million years…  (Read 160278 times)

Gus

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Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #125 on: 07 August, 2013, 05:54:30 pm »
Only sissies use bungy cords  :demon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvYtFwOnHFQ

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #126 on: 08 August, 2013, 06:23:12 pm »
No way Ho Zay


Avon Gorge is looking a bit deeper than normal. Tide must be out.
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Riggers

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Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #127 on: 20 August, 2013, 05:13:55 pm »
Norway's Trollunga

Scroll down the page. Don't think I'd be doing what they're doing. I'd feel a strong compulsion to throw myself off.
Certainly never seen cycling south of Sussex

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #128 on: 21 August, 2013, 03:50:04 pm »
Ooop. I think I could stand on it though I'd probably feel happier lying down, Svetlana-style. But sitting with my feet dangling over the edge? No way.
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Riggers

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Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #129 on: 20 September, 2013, 12:32:29 pm »
No Sirree Bob. God knows how you'd get down from there!!

Certainly never seen cycling south of Sussex

Pancho

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Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #130 on: 30 September, 2014, 10:24:35 pm »
FFS. Is it possible to block a thread on this forum? I keep dipping in whenever it gets added to - and instantly regretting it.

Mr Larrington

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Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #131 on: 01 October, 2014, 12:18:39 am »

The Skycoaster at Royal Gorge Park, Colorado.


Royal Gorge Bridge

Crossing the bridge was scary enough for me; the Skycoaster puts at least another 150' between you and the Arkansas River for a 1200' drop.  I witnessed an eighty year old grandmother on the Skycoaster :o
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Riggers

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Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #132 on: 01 October, 2014, 08:30:03 am »
Sorry to non-facebook forummers, this is a 46 second video on Facebook that I don't know how to embed here. It is a walk along a snowy summit of the Matterhorn.


I could only watch a few seconds of that Roaders, before my palms started sweating. That was enough thrill for me. I know I couldn't do that, even on my hands and knees!!!!! Thank God it wasn't windy. Bonkers.
Certainly never seen cycling south of Sussex

Steph

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Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #133 on: 01 October, 2014, 05:56:21 pm »
Both Fatbloke and I have been almost there. As in, on the shoulder. Shit.
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Jaded

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Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #134 on: 01 October, 2014, 08:41:11 pm »
Sorry to non-facebook forummers, this is a 46 second video on Facebook that I don't know how to embed here. It is a walk along a snowy summit of the Matterhorn.


I could only watch a few seconds of that Roaders, before my palms started sweating. That was enough thrill for me. I know I couldn't do that, even on my hands and knees!!!!! Thank God it wasn't windy. Bonkers.

windy is bonkers, yes.
It is simpler than it looks.

Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #135 on: 11 October, 2014, 11:32:42 am »
Unusually, this is on BBC iPlayer, Danny MacAskill cycling along the Cuillins ridge.  The entire programme isn't under this category, but definitely a few of the cuts made me very nervous!  The program ends with the final film, which I presume is also on YouTube.
Actually, it is rocket science.
 

Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #136 on: 27 March, 2015, 08:13:45 am »
It looks like El Caminito del Rey will no longer count in this thread.  They've rebuilt it, and it's due to be reopened tomorrow.  The new path is obviously a mixture of rebuilding the old one, and in places entirely replacing it with a new path, above the old one, which you can see below it in this video.

Still enough to make you nervous, but no longer in the "Never in a million years" category. ;D


Click image for YouTube video
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Andrij

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Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #137 on: 02 November, 2015, 09:30:04 pm »
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #138 on: 02 November, 2015, 09:44:51 pm »
Utter maniac!

Course, once you've done Clent Hill, that's nothing...
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Kim

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Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #139 on: 02 November, 2015, 09:48:32 pm »
 ;D

Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #140 on: 05 November, 2015, 06:59:59 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VPvKl6ezyc

Can't wait till the scallies start trying this at Speke.... (or Liverpool  John Lennon as its now known)
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Vince

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Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #141 on: 10 November, 2015, 01:31:16 pm »
They are the RAF's new interceptors after the next military spending review.
216km from Marsh Gibbon

Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #142 on: 10 November, 2015, 01:44:15 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VPvKl6ezyc

Can't wait till the scallies start trying this at Speke.... (or Liverpool  John Lennon as its now known)
Crimminy, I assumed that was CGI at first. That A380 must have been flying just above stall speed.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #143 on: 12 November, 2015, 01:39:06 pm »
That looks great fun! Though perhaps not quite so close to another aircraft...
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Riggers

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Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #144 on: 01 July, 2016, 09:32:18 am »
Driving trucks, laden down with granite stones, down from a quarry. Rather them than me.

Watch from 6 minutes in I say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naOHC8KnmjU
Certainly never seen cycling south of Sussex

Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #145 on: 01 July, 2016, 11:14:28 am »
Driving trucks, laden down with granite stones, down from a quarry. Rather them than me.

Watch from 6 minutes in I say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naOHC8KnmjU
balls of, um, granite.
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T42

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Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #146 on: 01 July, 2016, 01:25:34 pm »
Ahem. Marble. Marbles.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #147 on: 02 July, 2016, 05:54:26 am »
Have the Giro route planners seen this yet?

Vince

  • Can't climb; won't climb
Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #148 on: 02 July, 2016, 10:18:12 am »
Very Wages of Fear.
216km from Marsh Gibbon

Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #149 on: 17 July, 2016, 05:22:03 pm »
Only goats, not people, but they still made me feel nervous !

Actually, it is rocket science.