Because I would (try to) do this too:
And yes... that was miles per hour. And yes... that was on one wheel.
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Jil Wrinkle (With One L)
Welcome to my jungle perch. From here, I grab vines and swoop around and crash into coconut trees.
Name:
Jungle Jil
Location:
Jasaan Village,
Mindanao Island,
Philippines
Originally From:
America, New York State
Political Mindset:
Libertarian, Social Liberal, Small Government Fiscal Conservative
Subjects of This Blog:
Thus begins part 2 of my overseas saga, as I moved to Cagayan De Oro in March of 2008 after 5 years in Thailand.
Name:
Jungle Jil
Location:
Jasaan Village,
Mindanao Island,
Philippines
Originally From:
America, New York State
Political Mindset:
Libertarian, Social Liberal, Small Government Fiscal Conservative
Subjects of This Blog:
- News and commentary about Cagayan De Oro
- My life and living in The Philippines
- U.S. political commentary (focusing on hypocrisy, contradiction, and dishonesty, and the struggle against it)
- Funny and amusing videos, photos, or articles found on the internet
Thus begins part 2 of my overseas saga, as I moved to Cagayan De Oro in March of 2008 after 5 years in Thailand.
7 comments:
Come on....I can not believe you would be that reckless and irresponsible. You are not a 20 years old kid who thinks he is indestructible. I would hope you would have the wisdom and experience to know that is just freakin crazy....and not to do it.
Oh, I'd only do it once. But I would do it eventually. That's why I will never own one: 99.99% of the time, I'm the most sober and careful person I know... but I only have to be "reckless and irresponsible" for about... well... how long is that video? 60 seconds?
And hey: Are you really going to buy that BMW and keep it under 70 mph at all times?
We're guys. We are designed to do stuff like what's on that video. Even when we're 60 or 70 years old, there's still a part of us that will go balls to the wall.
(My father is somewhere far north of 60 years, and he still has a cherry-red supercharged vehicle with a flame job that will beat Corvettes in the quarter mile, so it's definitely in my blood and it doesn't go away much with age.)
Hi there Jil. It takes me back to an absolute brute of a bike I bought in 2003. It was a Honda SP1 VTR and was an absolute powerhouse of a bike. It was a street bike that went like shit in the city and slow running but when you opened it up, man oh man.
It weighed 200 kilograms and you could pull the front wheel off the ground at stupid speeds. I think back at the idiotic and stupid things I did on the bike and thank god I never killed anybody or thankfully myself.
You cannot describe to anyone what it feels like to do 300 klms per hour. It is an adrenalin rush like no other. I raced it on public race days at Eastern Creek Race Track and after eventually moving up through the grades I could fly around the track thinking I was shit hot.
There were bad days when the bike was dropped and the fully chromed exhausts where wrecked and cost a fortune to replace not to mention the fairings and any other damage.
I shake my head as this was not so long ago and was still living like a teenager with a death wish. Thankfully I have grown up a bit.
I enjoy reading the new blog and chapter of yours and Epril’s lives and do so almost everyday. Sorry about your camera the other day mate, I am happy it wasn’t expensive.
Brunty
When I was 16 I owned a shitty little Yamaha 650. Once I got the bike up to 95MPH but the handle bar started to shimmy which scared the hell out of me. Never tried that again. Now I am glad I had no money back then to get a nice bike.
Now my car back then was another story...442 Oldsmobile, with a 351 rocket engine. Now that was fast. My friends and I did some crazy stuff with that car.
I will keep my insane reckless motorcycle craziness to GTA games, where when I slam head-on at top speed into a small car or shirt wall... I can feel nice knowing its not actually ME who is being thrown more than 300 yards...
Hi Jil and all, this is Mike in Thailand (for Jil's benefit). About 6 years ago I was stranded overnight in Miri, Sarawak and a friend offered to give me a lift back in to Brunei on his Kawasaki. I am not sure if it was 1100 or 1300 but it moved like s**t off a stick. We did some really hairy speed and I estimated it was 200Km/hr plus but was really shocked when he said "Well after we topped 300 and was still accelerating I stopped looking down!". As I usually did that journey at 130 plus in my car and with immigration stops usually it took about 1 hour, that day we did it in less than 20 mins overall. Scary!! I still do not know the top speed we made and maybe it is better not to know.
That was a fantastic display of actualy 'living life'; nice video Jil.
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