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Old 12-09-2013, 06:25 PM   #1
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Stupid? Cool? But not 80km/hr. Even on straightaways, he's definitely not going that fast.
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That's pretty nutty, one wrong move and it's game over. Your equilibrium is so off when you're looking backwards.
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Old 12-09-2013, 08:50 PM   #4
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Stupid? Cool? But not 80km/hr. Even on straightaways, he's definitely not going that fast.
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I am happy to see that only 5-6 people out of 230 thousand are stupid enough to doubt the speed.
Probably just the usual ones without balls enough to do anything out of their life.
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1) The speed was max 80 km/h at the fastest lines, not all the time. Anyone with a bit of brain capacity understand that you got to use brakes through the curves.
2) The parts that look very speedy are filmed with another head camera by a guy who rode besides and behind me.
That makes the camera shaking by every little stone or bump, since those cameras do not come with stabilisator.
3) I am ready to ride again anytime.
Seems like the guy isn't happy people are doubting the speed. lol
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I don't know what the reason would be to even bother trying to do that. What's he trying to prove? Un necessary and extremely unsafe.
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80km backwards?
pff ... gtr would beat that.
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Pfsh......I used to ride like this when I was a kid albeit not at 80kph. I remain unimpressed.
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80kph claim is sensationalized anyways. For all we know he could have hit the 80kph speed for only 1 second.

This is just plain stupid.
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Old 12-10-2013, 10:43 AM   #10
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How did he know it was 80?
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Id like to see him ride like this going uphill.
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Seems like the guy isn't happy people are doubting the speed. lol
He does absolutely nothing to PROVE anything. I've done 60km/h on my road bike going forwards and it's an absolutely insane, I just simply don't buy for a second that he was doing 80 going backwards, and nothing short of a radar gun, GPS verification, or something with a speedo pacing him is going to change that!
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Yeah this is true Markymark. On my roadbike on the flats going 40-45kph is pretty damn quick. And that guy is on a mountain bike. Not skinny road tires...
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