The RIP thread.

[Mick Dempsey]

Can’t blame him tbf. 

[Stool master]

Still sore about missing out on the Tebbit job 20 odd years ago, when someone ran him off the road in a pickup 

[Stubby]

Felix Baumgartner ( the bloke who jumped from a space craft 24 miles above the earth ) has died in a powered paragliding accident . He fell to the ground near a hotel swimming pool apparently .  Jumping from the edge of space , all fine . Something a little closer and he has karked it . 

[Mick Dempsey]

Well, if you continue to do death defying stuff, at some point death won’t be defied. 
 

[Stubby]

4 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Well, if you continue to do death defying stuff, at some point death won’t be defied. 
 

You are still alive Mick . Hope your time is a way away ....Being a climber and all .....

[Mick Dempsey]

14 minutes ago, Stubby said:

You are still alive Mick . Hope your time is a way away ....Being a climber and all .....

I know, and there is a debate to be had about it.

 

I saw some bloke who video tapes himself mountain biking in the Dolomites along perilous ridges fell off and met his maker.

 

If none of these adrenaline junkie sorts didn’t lose no one would watch.

 

I have no time for people who gamble their lives for fun or clicks.

It’s all you’ve got, and all you’ll ever have.

 

[Mick Dempsey]

 

last line of my post ‘stolen’ from this film.

[Mesterh]

I cant watch any of those extremely risky risk takers for long. The base jumping with wings flying through holes in rocks or just skimming the sides of mountains. Cliff jumping into a pool just missing the rocks or the mountain bikes and motor bikes along the ridges. Its a split second/brain fart wrong move and its goodnight Vienna. Not for me. Although I did piss about on scramblers in my youth but that was different.

 

 

[sime42]

It's an adrenaline addiction I think with most of them. Just the same as any other addiction. If I was that way inclined I'd choose to go jumping off a mountain or something, instead of on the end of a needle in some filthy squalid drug den. Thankfully I'm not that way inclined.

 

 

[Oldfeller]

25 minutes ago, sime42 said:

It's an adrenaline addiction I think with most of them. Just the same as any other addiction. If I was that way inclined I'd choose to go jumping off a mountain or something, instead of on the end of a needle in some filthy squalid drug den. Thankfully I'm not that way inclined.

 

 

I had an addiction for speed,,, no not that one,, the flat out on a motorcycle or car kinda speed, I had a bike 155mph straight out the factory, after a while became boring, started tuning it got it up to 178mph, then built a car 0-60 2.8secs top end 150mph, it would beat a fireblade off the line,  then fitted nitrous oxide, another 100hp, on cheater slicks it would lift the front wheels 2 feet in the air on a launch,  mate bought a real projectile of a Porsche, let me have a go in it, 162mph still got a gear to go, another mate built a bike up over the year he got banned for ,,yep you guessed right,, speeding, had it on the road first day of the licence back 212mph through the traps, didn't catch this time ,fold up plate.

I have a chipped discovery 2 now, on 35"s goes anywhere ,,in comfort, probably get a ton out of ,never tried.

people ask me why did you give up speed? is it 'cos your old,?

no, when the fear of death is greater than the thrill of speed. you just change your driving style. that and the wisdom to know everyone has a camera now, even the five o.