Sky diving?

[ricardohardo]

Which puckers up your sphincter tighter .... Tweaked out sports bike and over shooting the corner or ....jumping out of a plane @ 15'000ft ? (With a dude piggy backing you)


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[Akzle]

Which puckers up your sphincter tighter .... Tweaked out sports bike and over shooting the corner or ....jumping out of a plane @ 15'000ft ? (With a dude piggy backing you)


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i see no reason to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft.

[Akzle]

btw, a cb500 is not a 'tweaked out sportsbike'

[pete-blen]

Which puckers up your sphincter tighter .... Tweaked out sports bike and over shooting the corner or ....jumping out of a plane @ 15'000ft ? (With a dude piggy backing you)


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have jumped out of a plane 4 times.. was fun in between the panic trying to remember what to do ..So figgered it would be better to learn to fly them instead..

[SMOKEU]

i see no reason to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft.

Unless there are ragheads on board, in which case the aircraft won't be good after the bomb detonates. Jump out while you can!

[Swoop]

i see no reason to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft.
There is no such thing...

[george formby]

Que?
Trying to reach terminal velocity on a sprot bike, well, bottling out, keeps me off the Armitage Shanks for a week or more. Jumpimg out of a plane, no issue. Only one thing to hit if you fuck up. Only one way to fuck up.

[AllanB]

Plane is worse - as above, anything goes wrong you are fucked. On the bike at least you can get a tricked out wheel chair to have some nurse push you around in.

[Mushu]

My old boss was a skydiving fanatic, we used to have amusing conversations where I would accuse him of being insane for jumping out of planes and he would say I'm insane for riding those death machines, in reality we were probably both right.

As far as I'm concerned I wouldn't jump out of a plane I expect to land intact. But if the plane is not going to land I'll be the first one at the door ready to jump

[SMOKEU]

There is no such thing...

Some of them are pretty damn close though.


Plane is worse - as above, anything goes wrong you are fucked. On the bike at least you can get a tricked out wheel chair to have some nurse push you around in.


My old boss was a skydiving fanatic, we used to have amusing conversations where I would accuse him of being insane for jumping out of planes and he would say I'm insane for riding those death machines, in reality we were probably both right.

As far as I'm concerned I wouldn't jump out of a plane I expect to land intact. But if the plane is not going to land I'll be the first one at the door ready to jump

Skydiving is probably safer than riding a motorbike. At least these days you have reserve parachutes and stricter SOPs. I still wouldn't have the balls to jump out of a plane though, unless I was on meth.

[Grashopper]

Skydiving is great fun. Overshooting a corner, not so much.

Skydiving is an amazing feeling. You're really nervous going up in the plane, but the jump itself you totally forget about it. It's just so exhilarating, the view is amazing, your adrenaline is rushing and at 15,000 or even 12,000 feet your brain does not compute the distance to the ground and it doesn't actually feel like you're getting any closer so you don't really feel like you're falling aside of the rush. I was just screaming "This is so cooooool" lol It's a very funny video...
You land and think OMG I have to do that again. Have only done it once so far, though.

You're totally depended on the instructor and whoever packed your chute, so for me hanging outside of the plane, attached to my instructor, while he was still sitting at the exit, was the point where I decided that now it was to late anyway so I might at least enjoy it and stop being scared. lol.

So skydiving is more of a rollercoaster-high-and-happy feeling, while overshooting a corner is an oh-shit feeling.

[Berries]

There are no cops at 15,000ft and only one fundamental law of physics to deal with.

600 jumps and I can still remember the buzz I got from the good ones. Riding a bike on the road is just riding a bike on the road, you're not even close to being on the edge.


Only one thing to hit if you fuck up. Only one way to fuck up.
There are many ways to fuck up and quite a few things to hit. I have the x-rays to prove it.

[unstuck]

You wouldn't catch me doing something that dangerous.:weird:

Would love to try skydiving though.:msn-wink:

[Ender EnZed]

Tweaked out sports bike and over shooting the corner

You mean crashing? I'll take the plane.



Skydiving is probably safer than riding a motorbike.

It's definitely safer than falling off one.

[HenryDorsetCase]

I've done one tandem skydive. Kind of a spur of the moment thing and we landed in Hagley Park.

To be honest I didnt like the "I am not in control of this" part of being strapped to a Strapping Young Lad and dangling out of the aircraft. That spiked my adrenaline quite high. I did enjoy the freefall and the view and the landing but if I was ever to do it again I would have to be doing it myself. And holding hands with Roberta Mancino. (google: thank me later).

I think I got more of an adrenaline buzz, but far more focussed feeling and a lot more personal satisfaction from whitewater kayaking. Standing at the top of a gnarly rapid and knowing that if you fuck it up you're going to have a bad time. I don't really do tht sort of paddling anymore. Actually I have been retired now for a couple of years. Like riding a bike though: I'd be happy in a 3 or 3+ I think.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Sky diving is FUCKING awesome. Over shooting a corner is FUCKING stupid.

[Ender EnZed]

A better comparison to a tandem skydive might be riding pillion for a few laps behind a much faster rider than yourself.