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1. I hate writing lists like this.
2. but only because I'm afraid I don't have enough cool stuff to put on them
3. I swear.. a lot, but I get away with it... in person, because I'm Irish, and in writing, because I'm an eloquent motherfucker
4. When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a space shuttle pilot. My entire room was covered in space posters, until I was eventually convinced this wouldn't happen in my early teens (kinda hard to be a shuttle pilot when you live in a country with no space program or even an airforce).... at which point....
5. I started listening to heavy metal and for years I wanted to be a touring musician. Played in a few bands, even recorded some stuff, but I was never really that good, but I did teach my brother to start playing
6.... who is now waaaay better than I ever was, has a degree in music and releases some of my favourite music.
7. I am by a long way the most level-headed member of my family.
8. I like to think I'm resourceful (read as "watched one too many episodes of macgyver as a kid") and set myself little challenges all the time (like trying to break into my own house)
9. I've been arrested once and spent a night in a cell
10. I love the mountains (snowboarding, mountain biking) but didn't realise this until my late 20s. It's one of my great regrets that I didn't start these things sooner.
11. I'm a 3rd dan (soon to be 4th!) black belt in Aikido, but....
12. I haven't been in a fight since high school.
13. A small immature part of me really wants someone to attack me so I can find out.
14. The rest of me isn't nearly that stupid.
15. I love to cook (especially BBQ), and will happily spend all day preparing a meal for my wife or my friends.
16. I don't have or want kids, but I get on great with them (I suspect they think I roughly as mature as they are).
17. I teach a kids Aikido class.
18. I'm very good at my job, but it's just a means to an end for me. If I never needed to work again, I wouldn't.
19. No-one will read this far.
20. I think people are basically good, but they're also stupid and easily manipulated... this goes for me too.
21. I really want to travel again, but life keeps getting in the way.
22. I'm a total geek.
23. I like to look at everything from all angles, but there are somethings I have no time for (homepathy, racism, homophobia, climate deniers, etc). I don't believe in debating these people.
24. I sometimes wonder if I should put my money where my mouth is and run for public office, but then I remember that that would seriously cut into my snowboarding/mountainbiking/aikido-ing time.
25. I am very tempted to delete this list.

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Mountain Biking Army

*ban
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaKUer9ZaSQ

I bring links!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B62HbIFu-vI

http://petapixel.com/2015/07/30/unreal-an-entire-mountain-biking-run-captured-in-a-single-shot/

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Only time you'll ever see a road biker with flat pedals

My initial response was that this is mental, but it isn't that insane when you think about it. Trials bikes are almost closer to road bikes than mountain bikes these days (rim brakes, no suspension, etc), so the skills would transfer.

Just goes to show it's the rider, not the bike. (which explains why I still suck at mountain biking even on my flash new bike )

BTW, just to clarify, this isn't a road bike who decided to try these stunts, it's a (world class) trials biker who decided to try it on a road bike.

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In off road racing (which I used to do), equipment failure was really usually more of an issue than driving speed. Something broke in almost every desert race I ran, it's not letting that stop you that the sport was all about, even more so when you are a lone wolf racing team (one man driver/owner/mechanic-no pit crew). I have to think the same goes in mountain biking.

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Here's a short where he rides a mountain bike:

Well, no. He isn't, he's standing on the 2x6 and -obviously- stupidly using the platform to balance himself to get the last couple chunks. As a matter of fact, the video starts with him completely on the 2x6.

If you notice the 2x6 is stuck into a hole in the far wall, and never moves. If he had never put his right foot on the platform, and just balanced on the 2x6, the platform would have fallen and left him standing on the 2x6.

I figure the video was being recorded to show his Boss-ness, and merely captured his stupid mistake. The whole idea wasn't idiotic, just the brain fart of putting his foot wrong.

It's like those mountain bike riders tearing down the ridgebacks then jumping out in the air and spinning around. If he fucks up the spin and breaks his ass, he's not an idiot, he just made a mistake.

Hmmm, Not sure it's possible to do a flip twice on this course. I'm guessing you may be confused and thinking of this, which was one backflip, but if you're not please provide link. I'd love to see it as i'm having a tough time buying your claim, and it would be AMAZING i'm sure. http://videosift.com/video/Mountain-bike-backflip-over-72ft-gap