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First-Person Video: Take an Insane Ride Down a Snow-Covered Mountain on a Dirt Bike
- Posted on January 24, 2012 at 4:47pm by
Liz Klimas
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With nearly 90 degree vertical climbs and barely wheel-width horizontal ridges, this video of a man on a motor bike will leave you biting your fingernails.
As the Daily Mail reports, riding on a motor bike (or dirt bike) can be dangerous in and of itself as it is “only the bare essentials on wheels” with few safety precautions. This is why the point-of-view footage of the anonymous rider taking the bike to an extreme mountain top posted on YouTube in December has garnered more than 79,000 views and is beginning to get more play now.
Check it out:
Laughing Squid reports that the rider is in Colorado and states the footage is was taken by a GoPro video camera attached to his helmet.
[H/T Gizmodo]
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Comments (72)
burrner0
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:41pmOh I miss ridding single track in Colorado looks cool but really not that impressive if he’s tryin to win the contest gona have to try a lot harder. Was doin that when I was 15.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 12:11amAt age 15 you say, that must have been before you ended up in a wheelchair having dinner through a straw then waiting for the nurse to come in and change your diaper.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 8:00amDamn I remember the day I broke my collar bone and tore my rotocup doing basicly the same thing. Then I had to suck up the pain and ride almost 15 miles back to house.
Report Post »Lagnar
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 11:10amFor those of you not familiar with the GoPro helmet cam, they have a very wide angle lens which distorts the view. Notice how the horizon curves. So, the mountains are not quite that steep. Dirtbike riders do this stuff all the time.
Want some real butt-pucker, try the slickrock at Moab Utah where the cliffs are real and the drop-offs are hundreds of feet.
Report Post »M1A2_Tanker
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:22pmAs someone who lived in Junction and worked on the motorsports complex located there I can tell you that although the video makes it look scary it really isn’t as steep or high as the fish eye lens makes it look. At any given time there are multiple people riding that trail all day long 7 days a week. Those folks grow up riding those trails from the ages of 5 and up. It really isn’t much to anyone who lives there. You can these guys riding from I-70.
Report Post »M1A2_Tanker
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:23pm“You can SEE* these guys from I-70″
Report Post »chfields62
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:38pmNow that was amazing!!
Report Post »bpodlesnik
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 9:28amI bet it was a huge thrill!
Report Post »REVerse
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:35pmDang that made my ******** pucker!
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 1:38amLOL!!!!! At least it was censored, but I know where that was headed.
Report Post »justn
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:32pmblink and your dead
Report Post »SageInWaiting
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:16pmThe first 2012 Darwin Award honorable mention nominee… He hasn’t qualified for nomination for an official place in the finals, but given this video, it’s just a matter of time. Idiocy has no bounds.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 1:39amyep.
Report Post »Those drop offs were pretty frikkin steep a coupla times.
paperpushermj
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:10pmIf you where to read on page 27 section D of your local paper of a Motor Cyclist falling to his Death. You would discover Paperpushermj General Rule of Life #1.
Report Post ».’
LIFE WEEDS OUT THE STUPID
ohmy2u
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:55pmWow! When this guy was a baby, he was probably trying to ride his tricycle around the top of his crib!
Report Post »This is an amazing video, but even the most daring things humans can do doesn‘t compare to God’s holy angels. They can fly light years in a split second… Heaven will be awesome!
http://www.izoominews.blogspot.com http://www.ohmywu.blogspot.com
paperpushermj
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:11pmDon’t be in such a hurry
Report Post »carbonyes
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:20pmWow! Light years in a split second. Now that is truly amazing. As some of our young people of today would say, “Awesome dude!”
Report Post »CulpepperJosh1638
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:32pmNutzzzz I say
Report Post »wordweaver
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:15pmNotice he wasn’t texting while driving?
Report Post »@RCHER
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:14pmkewl video. GoPro or go home!
Report Post »DoubleThrowDown
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:28pmIt looks like the badlands in CO, it’s great place to ride in the summer. I’m not that big of a fan of snow but it sure makes me ready for summer so we can get back into riding season.
Report Post »@RCHER
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:12pmkickazz ride and video. GoPro or go home!
Report Post »WAKEUPUSA2012
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:11pmInsanity
Report Post »ValdostaMRA
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:04pmHow is he going to turn around?
Report Post »Black Manta
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:25pmLol
Report Post »integrican
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 3:01amProbably on one wheel. LOL!
Report Post »mbck1491
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:08pmWatching that video made b***s go up into my abdomen, and my voice get squeaky.
Report Post »beatobama
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 8:22pmWhy doesn’t the helmet move with the motion of the bike? Could this have been created with something akin to Photoshop?
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 8:49pmBecause camera is attached to the helmet, not the bike.
Check it out:
http://gopro.com/
Report Post »Armyof One
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 8:49pmThe camera is attached to the helmet, there can be no change to the relation. Where the head looks, the camera looks.
Report Post »408 CheyTac
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:32pmBecause the helmet is on your head, not the fender… but that should be obvious to even the most 1d1otic people… also the cams made specifically for helmet-cams are digitally stabilized.
This is helmet-cam vids look. duh.
Report Post »11
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:43pmI think this would be a hell of a lot easier to do for real than with a computer. This guy is still nuts though. Cool stuff.
Report Post »Chromo200
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:38pmOk 408 CheyTac but the helmet, person does not move. I just don’t believe this, but fun to watch.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 1:46amWith the cam being fixed to the helmet, he can spin his head 360 degrees and all you would see is the changing of the sky / view. But the helmet would appear to not move—that’s be the helmet and cam are together. This isn’t trickery, it’s just the way it is.
Report Post »My nephew mountain bikes with his helmet cam all the time and it’s the same look. He’s not photoshopping anything.
thelowerslower
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 3:41pmThe same reason that the front tire does not spin, and the bike accelerates with the clutch lever pulled in.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 8:11pmwow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Nomoreozone
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 8:06pmThe GoPro makes it looks like shear cliffs, it’s the lens. Still a cool ride.
Report Post »greenherring
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 8:09pmGod I miss my dirt bike! I know right where this is…used to run this ridge myself….always in the summer though. Winter would be a little harder…….
Report Post »Awesome video, it made me want to get another one!
poorandstupid
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 8:13pmyou‘re kidding yourself if you think that it’s all the lens…one wrong move and that guy is falling all the way to the bottom for sure.
Report Post »Sapience
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 1:41amI was just wondering the same thing. It looks crazy, but, there is a trail there, and though I’ve never ridden in snow, I’ve done similar back when I thought I was invincible.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 8:05pmWOW!…better him than me – thank you for the video dude!
Report Post »Xplorer
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 8:02pmI don’t think I could do it especially if the handlebars sway and jerk that much!
Report Post »Mitch64622
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 7:53pmIs he insane? Oh my goodness.
Report Post »proantisocialist
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 7:48pmhow can he sit with balls like that!
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 7:42pmMy palms are all sweaty watching this!
Report Post »willbedone
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 7:37pmHoly CrapOla!
Report Post »gipb
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 7:29pmman what if he had to sneeze…. cool video!!!
Report Post »aquablue
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 7:19pmRazorback!
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