Are you all amazed at what they are doing on 2 wheelers now?

[Moretorque]

I have been out of the loop for about 20 years on paying attention to what was happening in the world of rad on 2 wheels. Anything on 2 wheels but mainly dirt/trials motorcycles and I am just blown away at what people are doing today. It makes 4 wheeled stuff look so mild as far as being on the edge and practically anything else. Just amazing times as far as people showing off how far the human can take things. 20 years ago the single back flip and now it's like no way, and I mean all the 2 wheeled stuff. Who ever invented the bicycle would not believe it.

 

[Apartunis]

I have been out of the loop for about 20 years on paying attention to what was happening in the world of rad on 2 wheels. Anything on 2 wheels but mainly dirt/trials motorcycles and I am just blown away at what people are doing today. It makes 4 wheeled stuff look so mild as far as being on the edge and practically anything else. Just amazing times as far as people showing off how far the human can take things. 20 years ago the single back flip and now it's like no way, and I mean all the 2 wheeled stuff. Who ever invented the bicycle would not believe it.

In another generation those daredevils will be dead or broken or aged out. Other fools will be playing the tempting fate game by doing something else. Elsewhere in ten more generations the same kinds of non foolish people who use bicycles and motorcycles for practical reasons will be doing the same things they do today, for the same reasons. Everybody will believe it because it will continue to make sense.

 

[Moretorque]

It's the skill level that are possessed not by just one but many, it used to be like yaa you had this dare devil like Evil Knievel. Now you have the multitudes doing all this new stuff like it's just in a days work like it's nothing and would leave Evil and even his son Robbie scratching their heads in disbelief. These riders just look at something on the spot and say lets do this and bunches of them just do it and it's like over the top skill and stuff you cannot do on any other vehicle showcasing how 2 wheels for certain things is completely superior to any other vehicle mostly the modern off road motorcycles I am referring to.. Regular Joe's are downloading this stuff they are doing just riding about and it's just amazing is all. It may have alot to do with why moto cross has been gaining popularity and selling out events but the stuff these back yard Joe's are doing is beyond even what the pro moto x er's will do in some cases..

 

[OlderGiantFan]

just young idiots for the most part, caught up in the Red Bull fanboi vortex. Redbull sales go up and they go into a hospital bed in traction. I remember the crusty demons madness of a generation ago, 11 year old kids flying 20 meters in the air while their dads cheered on. I knew one, had a midair over a jump and he still limps to this day, leg full of metal plates and screws. I'd just as soon watch Israeli and US missiles hitting civilian targets in Iran. It's the skill level that are possessed not by just one but many, it used to be like yaa you maybe landed your missile within 200 meters of the target, but now it's right on the button

 

[DingusMcGee]

(MODIFIED) Big Air and Enduro are not the same sport. One takes skill and the other is done when a risk taking personality needs some exercise.

 

[Moretorque]

It's a combination of everything, occasionally I will pull something up and you see new stuff nobody has really ever done before, I see it in alot of forms of sport today but the 2 wheeled stuff overall takes it to a broader scope.

 

[Moretorque]

just young idiots for the most part, caught up in the Red Bull fanboi vortex. Redbull sales go up and they go into a hospital bed in traction. I remember the crusty demons madness of a generation ago, 11 year old kids flying 20 meters in the air while their dads cheered on. I knew one, had a midair over a jump and he still limps to this day, leg full of metal plates and screws. I'd just as soon watch Israeli and US missiles hitting civilian targets in Iran. It's the skill level that are possessed not by just one but many, it used to be like yaa you maybe landed your missile within 200 meters of the target, but now it's right on the button

They are just starting WW 3 over there for their depopulation agenda. America will be next if our rulers have their way.

 

[Moretorque]

(MODIFIED) Big Air and Enduro are not the same sport. One takes skill and the other is done when a risk taking personality needs some exercise.

It's like they mix both together, you'll have guy's doing back flips on like part of a Enduro circuit or moto x track today with no prep practice or nothing.

 

[DingusMcGee]

The most risky sport: extreme skiing

 

[Moretorque]

The most risky sport: extreme skiing

It's not the risky part, it's what they are doing on these machines. Take like down hill bikes. The Red Bull course which is supposedly a real hard one for DH bikes was done by a guy in 1 try on a motorcycle and was within 3 seconds of the best DH bicycle time. The difference is the guy on the Motor bike can then ride back to the top and shoot up vertical walls while getting there.. These guys are shooting up hills that have sections that are straight up and the same thing on DH and there not on prepped courses any longer..

 

[Moretorque]

Watch Robbie Madison Jump the Ski jump, the jump he did in Las Vegas where he jumped the tower and then came back down was nuts, he said he would never do that again. You cannot do that on any other machine except a helicopter or Harrier.

 

[99t4]

Early days hillclimbing.

 

[Papa]

Two things are infinite:
The universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
~ Albert Einstein