Re: Crazy Wheelie!
"Thumper" <roadapple@bigfoot . com > wrote in message
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> "Jeff Mayner" <jeffmayner@yahoo . com > wrote in message
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>> Beav wrote:
>>> "High Plains Thumper" <highplainsthumper@gmail . com > wrote in message
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>>>> * w w w .livevideo . com /video/0A6B147ECC93448081C5CB669F6F42BB/motorcycle-wheelies-past-cops.aspx
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>>> Patric Furstengurger, AKA Ghostrider. You can buy the vid's and there
>>> are currently 3 or 4 of them. In one, he rides in the rush hour from
>>> Stockholm to Uppsala (That's in Sweden btw) a distance of 42 miles,
>>> in a hair under 15 minutes.
>>>
>>> Average speed ... over 176mph.
>>>
>>> Hobbies... bainting plod and fliming them being left behind.
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>> Wow.
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>> That must be a cultural thing.
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> They had an article in the LA Times about the those guys, last week. Sorry
> I didn't post it. It seems one of them has taken up professional racing
> and is bored.
The man himself (Ghostrider) is a professional lunatic these days. He
started out just being a lunatic, but after his first video he was offered
enough money to stop doing his day job and begin working on his next vid.
He *does* push things though.
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Beav
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