Megavalanche 2022

Skybird · 10-04-22, 01:20 PM

I just watched this, the full race, in VR, on the big movie screen in the Highmax Cinema in Sydney

What to say? Insane. Mad. Totally nuts. Impressive. Just watching it as a viewer is exhausting. I honestly think these drivers are all haunted by a hidden and never psycho-analysed deathwish.

Catfish · 10-04-22, 04:19 PM

I did not want to, but i watched the whole tour.
God

Platapus · 10-04-22, 04:50 PM

Is there a rule against using solid or air-less tires?

Skybird · 10-04-22, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

Is there a rule against using solid or air-less tires?

I have no idea. Skids instead of wheels might be more appropriate anyway. Or tracks.

Skybird · 10-04-22, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Catfish

I did not want to, but i watched the whole tour.
God

And I thought I know how to bike.

There is a lady in Berlin, you find her youtube channel via her name, "Radelmaus", extremely sympathetic, and a cute Italian accent (an married so dont start thinking foolish thoughts

). She starts just for fun to bike on her race bike: at 2am in the morning in Berlin, and then drives in one rush for "a daily tour"

- to Lübeck or Wismar, to the Brocken in the Harz, the Baltic coast and then into Poland, or Chech Republic, even Bremen. Even Amsterdam. In one rush, usually, 300, 400, up to 500km. Come rain or come shine, at day and at night, up and down - you cant stop the Radelmaus. You just can't.

I now know I only thought I knew how to bike.

I could not sit on a saddle that long. Pain starts after 6 hours, with 8-9 hours I'm done. 16-20 hours in one rush? Not for me.

Radelmäuse are the second cutest thing after red squirrels.

mapuc · 10-04-22, 05:16 PM

The video reminded me of my childhood-Fearless as I was then I could not get enough of bike down steep the steeper though better. Thinking at my age now I should have been afraid when crashing--But no I toke my bike ran up to the top and tried again.

Today I have become a coward.

I wouldn't dare to ride down as they are.

This is what it's all about
Having a good balance
Have no fear-If you fall you fall and take it from there.

Markus

Skybird · 10-04-22, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by mapuc

Today I have become a coward.

No, you only have become body-wise. At your age the body could not take that stress and could not live through crashes that in younger years it could have tolerated and survived somehow. With age comes body-wisdom.

Also, with age we loose sense of balance, some more, some less, but it fades in everybody. We also loose muscle mass if we do not actively and intensely work against it, and even that usually only delays and slows down that process

Climax of physical strength and ablity we reach - and that is frustrating - already somewhere in the mid-20s. From then on the show goes down the gutter.

Jimbuna · 10-05-22, 07:25 AM

There must be an element of insanity for anyone attempting this

Skybird · 10-05-22, 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

There must be an element of insanity for anyone attempting this

They start on a glacier at 3330m and then the ride goes over 20 km down to 2600m. Since there are also climbs, the total vertical meters add up to also over 2600m. It seems to be the hottest event in the sports. Nordschleife for Mountain Bikes, so to speak. Crazy mass starts, hundreds of drivers.

Jimbuna · 10-05-22, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

They start on a glacier at 3330m and then the ride goes over 20 km down to 2600m. Since there are also climbs, the total vertical meters add up to also over 2600m. It seems to be the hottest event in the sports. Nordschleife for Mountain Bikes, so to speak. Crazy mass starts, hundreds of drivers.

Many accidents or fatalities even?

Skybird · 10-05-22, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Many accidents or fatalities even?

I dont know.

Falls: yes, of course. Bike material breaking down, especially the tyres: happens as well, and no wonder on that terrain. But serious accidents? I dont know.

But at that age you dont feel the pain that much anyway.

Jimbuna · 10-05-22, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

But at that age you dont feel the pain that much anyway.

Nor consider the potential consequences of your actions

Skybird · 10-21-22, 08:25 AM

Thats why it is called "action cam". Owning one puts you under a spell to do stupid action things.

Platapus · 10-23-22, 06:29 AM

And how much property damage did this jerk do?

Skybird · 10-23-22, 07:01 AM

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And how much property damage did this jerk do?

Don't tell me you took it for real...!?

10-04-22, 01:20 PM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,604 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Megavalanche 2022 I just watched this, the full race, in VR, on the big movie screen in the Highmax Cinema in Sydney What to say? Insane. Mad. Totally nuts. Impressive. Just watching it as a viewer is exhausting. I honestly think these drivers are all haunted by a hidden and never psycho-analysed deathwish. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

10-04-22, 04:19 PM	#2
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,765 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	I did not want to, but i watched the whole tour. God __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

10-04-22, 04:50 PM	#3
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Is there a rule against using solid or air-less tires? __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

10-04-22, 05:16 PM	#6
mapuc CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 20,535 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	The video reminded me of my childhood-Fearless as I was then I could not get enough of bike down steep the steeper though better. Thinking at my age now I should have been afraid when crashing--But no I toke my bike ran up to the top and tried again. Today I have become a coward. I wouldn't dare to ride down as they are. This is what it's all about Having a good balance Have no fear-If you fall you fall and take it from there. Markus __________________ My little lovely female cat

10-05-22, 07:25 AM	#8
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,473 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	There must be an element of insanity for anyone attempting this __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

10-21-22, 08:25 AM	#13
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,604 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Thats why it is called "action cam". Owning one puts you under a spell to do stupid action things. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

10-23-22, 06:29 AM	#14
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	And how much property damage did this jerk do? __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.