Don't run out of gas!

[Cavman]

This Daredevil Is Using His Dirt Bike To Surf The Waves
http://wimp.com/bike-surf/

 

[Cruzr Joe]

Think "SHARK"

 

[Deer Slayer]

no Nanny!:yikes:

 

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

It really is real!!

This Daredevil Is Using His Dirt Bike To Surf The Waves
http://wimp.com/bike-surf/

When I first saw this I figured it was some sort of video editing stunt, but it actually was a real performance. The engineer, Bill King, who put it together for Robbie Maddison, the daredevil bike rider who did it, lives and works here in Idaho about 30 miles from me! Here's the article in today's Idaho Statesman!

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2015/08/20/3947931_eagle-engineer-helps-daredevil.html?rh=1

 

[Bob Denman]

First; they had snowmobiles on the water...

And now; it's motorcycles?? :shocked:
What's next? :shocked:

 

[PW2013STL]

First; they had snowmobiles on the water...

And now; it's motorcycles?? :shocked:
What's next? :shocked:

Spyders:2thumbs: you game Bob?

 

[Bob Denman]

:shocked: I float about as well as the Thresher did... :yikes:

 

[wyliec]

:shocked: I float about as well as the Thresher did... :yikes:

Not funny.

 

[BLUEKNIGHT911]

REALLY

:shocked: I float about as well as the Thresher did... :yikes:

Robert, that comment is disgraceful and a real slap in the face of all who serve ( past and present ).....Mike

 

[Bob Denman]

Wylie,
Who said that I was joking? You've never seen me in the water...

Mike,
Thanks! Knowing that you don't like it just makes it better!
And since you quoted it; it'll remain in here even if the Boss removes my post!

 

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

I worked in the Navy nuclear program right after college from 1967 to 1973, the last two years at the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory in West Mifflin, PA. While there I went into the library that held classified documents of all sorts. One of them was an English translation of a Soviet magazine about military stuff, I think. Anyway, it had a complete accounting of the Tresher disaster, including some transcriptions of the communications between the sub and the surface ship that was monitoring its activities. It was on a test dive of some sort. As I recall there was a piping failure that allowed sea water to come into the sub, the weight of it sinking the sub. The audio from the sub recorded crunching of the steel hull as it went down. I don't know, since I haven't looked, if that much info has ever been released in American documents.

I just thought it was kind of ironic I learned a lot more about a US Navy tragedy from a Soviet publication than I had from US publications.

 

[wyliec]

Just something to note:


"Having been "lost at sea", Thresher was not decommissioned by the U.S. Navy and remains on “Eternal Patrol"."

Now, back to the real topic- Don't run out of gas.

 

[Doktor]

My uncle was supposed to go out on the Thresher that day. He was one of the supervisors on the build. He got up with a sinus infection that he felt might be affected by being in the sub when it was submerged. That was probably the best sinus infection he ever had.
It was shortly after that the he retired from ship building.


Doc

 

[Bob Denman]

Spyders:2thumbs: you game Bob?

How about these?? :thumbup:

 

[sidecarrick]

First; they had snowmobiles on the water...

And now; it's motorcycles?? :shocked:
What's next? :shocked:

Submersible Spyder