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09/03/2012 11:51:29 PM · #26 |
| In Northern Maine, we just call it driving for about 5 months.... |
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09/03/2012 11:59:18 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by levyj413:
Originally posted by Cory:
It's the Arab drifting that's stunning. The death rate is stupendously high. |
OMG - video. Look especially at 0:45-0:53. That's on an open highway with other cars nearby. |
When it goes wrong, it goes really wrong too - packed crowds on the roadside, no seatbelts, open roadways, people hanging out the windows of the cars, etc... It's pretty spectacular Darwinism in action. |
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09/04/2012 12:01:00 AM · #28 |
Originally posted by apercep:
In Northern Maine, we just call it driving for about 5 months.... |
Just not at 100mph... :)
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09/04/2012 12:05:42 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by Cory:
Originally posted by levyj413:
Originally posted by Cory:
It's the Arab drifting that's stunning. The death rate is stupendously high. |
OMG - video. Look especially at 0:45-0:53. That's on an open highway with other cars nearby. |
When it goes wrong, it goes really wrong too - packed crowds on the roadside, no seatbelts, open roadways, people hanging out the windows of the cars, etc... It's pretty spectacular Darwinism in action. |
Yep. The Wikipedia article references a Saudi Arabian guy who:
1) killed two people while arab drifting and
2) has been sentenced to death by beheading |
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09/04/2012 12:08:02 AM · #30 |
Originally posted by LydiaToo:
Originally posted by levyj413:
Originally posted by LydiaToo:
Good golly.
I wonder why I never see women on these types of things... like the whole "do stupid stuff" video shows and such...
*rolleyes*
Life insurance on your man, ladies! Life insurance! |
Umm, just search for "women fail" videos. Plenty of stupid bike tricks and other bad ideas. |
*grin* It was a joke.
(kinda) :D |
I was about to say "bordering on", but actually, that original remark was pure sexism (a generalisation blown out of the water by the subsequent post by Jeffrey). Shame... love the no-reaction tho as female to male sexism is considered socially acceptable, but saying something like that with the tables turned would instantly earn me a flame - even if it was a joke "(kinda)". |
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09/04/2012 12:17:08 AM · #31 |
IMO, he may do some calculation before going for that extra ordinary angle. Photographer/videographer choose to do this quite occasionally but the way he do it are too dangerous and amateurish. Look like he is trying adjusting OOF focusing through VF. He got to be extra alert for this kind of fast racing track. I don't have fast racing track of this kind to share but here video of taken with mostly wide angle.
4 x 4 challenge
This is the shot from minute 1:16
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09/04/2012 12:31:32 AM · #32 |
| Driving around San Francisco a few months ago I saw all these tire marks includin a patch in the middle of the bay bridge upper deck which puzzled me to no end until I found this video. If you like drift videos Ken Block does dome amazing things here, the most impressive is at 5:45 where he rotates to take a corner while catching air. Very technical driving, plus it is beautifully shot. |
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09/04/2012 12:37:57 AM · #33 |
Excellent use of an already endangered ecosystem.
Originally posted by alexlky:
IMO, he may do some calculation before going for that extra ordinary angle. Photographer/videographer choose to do this quite occasionally but the way he do it are too dangerous and amateurish. Look like he is trying adjusting OOF focusing through VF. He got to be extra alert for this kind of fast racing track. I don't have fast racing track of this kind to share but here video of taken with mostly wide angle.
4 x 4 challenge
This is the shot from minute 1:16 |
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09/04/2012 12:45:43 AM · #34 |
Originally posted by BrennanOB:
Driving around San Francisco a few months ago I saw all these tire marks includin a patch in the middle of the bay bridge upper deck which puzzled me to no end until I found this video. If you like drift videos Ken Block does dome amazing things here, the most impressive is at 5:45 where he rotates to take a corner while catching air. Very technical driving, plus it is beautifully shot. |
LOL, I had wondered what the locals thought.... |
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09/04/2012 12:48:49 AM · #35 |
Originally posted by Cory:
Originally posted by apercep:
In Northern Maine, we just call it driving for about 5 months.... |
Just not at 100mph... :)
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you might be horrifically surprised.... |
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09/04/2012 12:57:50 AM · #36 |
| Holy cow. How in the world did they shut down San Francisco for that? Bet he goes through a lot of tires... Best part - it's a freakin' Ford Fiesta. |
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09/04/2012 01:00:12 AM · #37 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
Holy cow. How in the world did they shut down San Francisco for that? Bet he goes through a lot of tires... Best part - it's a freakin' Ford Fiesta. |
Well...... It LOOKS like a Ford Fiesta anyway. |
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09/04/2012 12:40:58 PM · #38 |
I guess it's an alien concept here to steer with the gas pedal. A full-lock drift is a whole lotta fun!
There is absolutely, positively, no substitute whatsoever for brutal, raw power.....
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09/04/2012 12:46:15 PM · #39 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
I guess it's an alien concept here to steer with the gas pedal. |
I only do that when I'm accelerating using the radio buttons, and I tell ya, that makes it very tricky to tune the radio using the left window control. |
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09/04/2012 01:06:17 PM · #40 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
I guess it's an alien concept here to steer with the gas pedal. |
We get a lot of practice at it here, in a low-key way, since for some reason most of the freeway on- and off-ramps are decreasing-radius turns...
R. |
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09/04/2012 01:12:43 PM · #41 |
It seems us men here can agree that RWD > FWD.
On a similar tangent... I've personally never understood this philosophy with new tires:
Well, I guess I kind of follow it for people that don't remotely understand physics. |
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09/04/2012 01:23:20 PM · #42 |
| The silly thing about assuming that the cars will all follow the same drift line, is that you don't know when they will pop out of the drift. If you guess wrong, you might pop out of your shoes. |
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09/04/2012 02:16:43 PM · #43 |
Originally posted by inshaala:
Originally posted by LydiaToo:
*grin* It was a joke.
(kinda) :D |
I was about to say "bordering on", but actually, that original remark was pure sexism (a generalisation blown out of the water by the subsequent post by Jeffrey). Shame... love the no-reaction tho as female to male sexism is considered socially acceptable, but saying something like that with the tables turned would instantly earn me a flame - even if it was a joke "(kinda)". |
I am sorry. I beg for your forgiveness. |
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09/04/2012 03:21:10 PM · #44 |
Originally posted by LydiaToo:
Originally posted by inshaala:
Originally posted by LydiaToo:
*grin* It was a joke.
(kinda) :D |
I was about to say "bordering on", but actually, that original remark was pure sexism (a generalisation blown out of the water by the subsequent post by Jeffrey). Shame... love the no-reaction tho as female to male sexism is considered socially acceptable, but saying something like that with the tables turned would instantly earn me a flame - even if it was a joke "(kinda)". |
I am sorry. I beg for your forgiveness. |
Accepted and forgiven, I realise the comment was light hearted and not intentionally ill meaning. I just thought i would raise the issue as it is a bit of a bug-bear for me, when anything i say (even in jest) is scrutinised for being "Politically Correct" it seems people forget that sexism is a two way street... |
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