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Call me absolutely fucking retarded, but I want to do this:

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I don't have any sound on so I may have missed this, but was the redbull mixed with a lot of vodka?

WAFS? You, are ABSOLUTELY FUCKING RETARDED.

That's just silly. I LOLed out loud, really.

piccini9 wrote:WAFS? You, are ABSOLUTELY FUCKING RETARDED.

That's just silly. I LOLed out loud, really.

+1

I would love to know what the collective hospital and repair bills were for that event.

--Jaeger

that looks fucking jangleplatz! And hell no! Ah, if I was only 15 years younger and less crippled, it would be worth just for the lovely Romanian women and bragging rights. Damn that looks fun.

FUCK FUCK FUCK!

How soon until we can grow new limbs in a lab for transplant again?

OH, and WTF is with the ambulances? Volxwagen buses? No shit? Those things are as reliable as um.... a Yugo?

"You'll be fine, just keep pressure on it, the hippies with band-aids will be up to the top of the mountain as soon as they can get a tow truck."

It's all fun and games until someone loses a torso, then it's just fun.

Oh, that's just fucking...THUNDERDOME!!!

I mean, they have fucking bears and wolves in the carpathian mountains - and they think it's necessary to add danger with a stage on an concrete deathtrap. Wow.

BTW, Dan, that was a T3, with the watercooled pushrod engine these things are able to take a punishment. Friend of mine had one, bought used from the city where the work-crews basically didn't bother about maintenance at all. Had been running without coolant for several years, and eventually he figured out that the nasty knocking noise was from the oil not having been changed in a bout a decade. He eventually sold it to an enthusiast who pimped it out. Still running.

There are tons of them around here, definitely more than of pretty much all other cars they stopped making nearly 20 years ago (apart from Mercs and Toyotas, mind).

WOW! Why does Europe keep all the good stuff for itself?

That race looks like the awesome. That urban start looks brutal.

DerGolgo wrote:Oh, that's just fucking...THUNDERDOME!!!

I mean, they have fucking bears and wolves in the carpathian mountains - and they think it's necessary to add danger with a stage on an concrete deathtrap. Wow.
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Dude, we have bears in the City of Seattle!

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/l ... ar17m.html

I don't run into bears that often, but I know when they are around!

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Rabbit_Fighter wrote:I don't run into bears that often, but I know when they are around!

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I thought they did that in the woods?

OK, so after a good deal of time watching the youtube videos on the Romaniacs website, I've decided that there's no way in HELL I could do half of the stuff in that race. If I had the next year to dedicate solely to saddle time, then *maybe* (big maybe). Unfortunately, I have to spend all of my time doing school work, instead of riding my motorbike and DH bike, so probably not.

Not to mention the fact that it's, well, in Romania. I'd have to get there, pay the thousand euros for entry/accommodations, plus buy a bike that would likely end up completely fucking destroyed by the end of the race.

Epic? Yes.
Doable? Doubt it.

I think it's badass. Those are some pretty awesome obstacles. Doubt I'd ever ride it, but...fun to watch.

That was awesome, looks like brutal fun! Europe seems to have all of the super gnarly off-road races. The terrain looks tough but doable, the kick is 1,000 miles of it. I think just finishing day one would be major bragging rights.