Sooner or later, everything’s going to be a thing. Here’s a thing that didn’t used to be a thing.
It does lead to some questions, though. 1) That’s saltwater. How did you avoid the whole thing rusting out before the filming was done?
2) How did you keep the locals from beating the living hell out of the rider and the film crew for being noisy and horrific?
3) We know he must have ditched the bike at least once during filming. What did it take to retrieve that thing and get it running again?
4) How did the locals convince the emergency room doctor that their friend had, in fact, been hit by a motorcycle out at sea?
Thanks, KNO3, for sending the link to the video!
[face palm]
I know humans tend to go a little nuts trying to find the “next big sport nobody’s tried before” but seriously… Why? I’m all for fun but it seems to me that thrill seeking is more work than it is Actually Fun.
What’s the point if it stops just being something you do to unwind and turns into something that just winds you up worse?
Meh, maybe I’m just an old stick in the mud, but give me a good boat, a decent pole and bait and a nice smooth lake or a nice craggy cliff to spelunk, and I’m good.
I will never understand how people can intro a film by showing wonderful quiet, georgeus healty looking nature-scenes – just to cut to some larger-than-life deifivation of a kerosine-driven, stinking, noisy, destructive macho dummy-tool.
Cool Idea, though.
Hope it never takes.
He had a support team, and rebuilt the bike a lot.
http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/features/robbie-maddison-on-cheating-death-to-make-his-pipe-dream-a-reality-20150803
If somebody wanted to do this regularly, I think they would have to prep the engine like a jet-ski, and put a snorkel with a float on it for intake air and one for exhaust.
Commercially, for rentals, they could probably use different ski boards and an even smaller engine to save weight.
Hey, you’re in Memphis? Maybe you could surfbike the Mississippi. But it would basically be an upright jetski.
Let Bob do it.
Oh yeah, the saltwater. I had a PVC wheelchair for awhile, with sealed bearings so I could shower. That would change the wheels part of the equation. Yes, I can walk some now. Never break a leg in a Cat 4 Hurricane.