Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:47 am
Just watched that YouTube vid... My assumptions have been confirmed. I just don't see too many of the dirt-bike "Bro types" studying snow. Maybe now they will... it makes dirt look like pre-school.
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Dingus Milktoast wrote:Some people are just too stupid to live.
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Couldn't agree more.John Duffield wrote:Something I think about from time to time as I cycle around NYC. The difference between an ugly accident and a rude gesture can be a fraction of a second. Someone that doesn't have quick reaction times simply isn't going to survive. Same thing in the mountains. It is, as you say, Mother Nature selecting between those that think they're fast enough and those that really are (fast enough).
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That which did not kill me...
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Brad Marshall wrote:Guess you'd have to know these folks to answer that question. Take a look at this video from 2006 and you tell me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4suGjQS9gf0