And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Hell of a lot better to bail into the grasses than bounce along the asphalt though...after just missing a head on that would've had him getting scraped off a vehicle and into a body bag.
You don't know you have a problem until you go fast enough to generate the condition. Easier to deal with on skates than a board, I think. Now I'm sitting here thinking of ways to remotely change the truck tension. Thirty years since I took my skates out, sigh...
Should have used a longboard. High speed oscillations wait in hiding for you. I bought a used Yamaha that was wonderfully smooth and stable at 70mph. One day I gave it full throttle to pass several cars and it went into a tank-slapper at about 90mph (I was way too busy to look at the speedo). New steering head bearings sorted it out. Al_in_Ottawa
Doesn't seem to be physically adept enough to master the fine art of fast downhill skating. Wiggle/overcorrect/wiggle becomes unrecoverable really quickly. Maybe he'd do better on roller skates? CC
That's what happens when fat goes too fast.
ReplyDeleteSumfink to do with harmonic resonance....
And ill-equipped for such a fa(s)t ride...no knee, elbow guards, and that footwear???
DeleteHell of a lot better to bail into the grasses than bounce along the asphalt though...after just missing a head on that would've had him getting scraped off a vehicle and into a body bag.
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ReplyDeleteStupidity Spotlight
ReplyDeleteMaybe you shouldn't show off your wiggle.
ReplyDeleteBetter tighten down the trucks a little more next time.
ReplyDeleteYou don't know you have a problem until you go fast enough to generate the condition. Easier to deal with on skates than a board, I think. Now I'm sitting here thinking of ways to remotely change the truck tension. Thirty years since I took my skates out, sigh...
DeleteYou know the older you get the more pain hurts. Ditch the skates and wait for the hoverboards to come out.
DeleteIt doesn't look fast enough for high speed wobbles. That he could make the turn at the end has me thinking it was rider induced oscillations.
ReplyDeleteShould have used a longboard. High speed oscillations wait in hiding for you. I bought a used Yamaha that was wonderfully smooth and stable at 70mph. One day I gave it full throttle to pass several cars and it went into a tank-slapper at about 90mph (I was way too busy to look at the speedo). New steering head bearings sorted it out.
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That was about the best ending possible for that guy.... He could have been REAL unlucky!
ReplyDeleteThe sad part is he wasn't going more than about 30 mph.
ReplyDeleteDumbest sport ever. No way to control speed or stop safely. Darwin is having a ball with those idiots.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't seem to be physically adept enough to master the fine art of fast downhill skating.
ReplyDeleteWiggle/overcorrect/wiggle becomes unrecoverable really quickly.
Maybe he'd do better on roller skates?
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