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    Default Re: Best use of road disc brakes

    Good grief. I've seen this before but can't stop watching it In my dreams I can do about 1% of that ;)

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    Mad skills! Somewhere on the Youtube there is a behind the scenes video and they were using another bike with traditional brakes, IIRC.

    Road discs are a passing fad, according to the 14 people I rode with today.

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    Pooch sent me a note and said that one of the riders in the video suffered a severe spinal and is now paralyzed... playing roulette with the law of averages I suppose as the pressure mounts to do bigger and more risky things with each new video.

    The scene on the bridge made me cringe.

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    I didn't know that (^^) but it's not surprising. I've been showing the video to all my non-bike colleagues and they've all commented how risky some of the stunts seem; in particular, the scene on top of the train cars where if you fall you are certainly breaking a rib or vertebrae. Some of the stunts might involve camera trickery to make them seem "higher" than reality but a few (the trains and the bridge) are scary because we know the scale of things.

    I'm sad to think someone was permanently injured making that video.

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    Martyn Ashton had that accident back in September.
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    Default Re: Best use of road disc brakes

    Quote Originally Posted by Bobonli View Post
    I didn't know that (^^) but it's not surprising. I've been showing the video to all my non-bike colleagues and they've all commented how risky some of the stunts seem; in particular, the scene on top of the train cars where if you fall you are certainly breaking a rib or vertebrae. Some of the stunts might involve camera trickery to make them seem "higher" than reality but a few (the trains and the bridge) are scary because we know the scale of things.

    I'm sad to think someone was permanently injured making that video.
    He wasn't injured making the video. It was during a demo at a Moto GP event. Trials superstar Martyn Ashton has sustained a life changing spinal injury | Dirt

    Absolutely sucks for anyone to sustain such an injury. And whether it's making videos or during other events, these folks keep pushing the limits and injuries this severe will become more common. I find myself watching this stuff less and less, especially live. I just don't want to be watching the day something really bad happens.

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