Holy SHIT!! Just watched this, and had to recalibrate my whole concept of ballsy. I dont care how brave I will ever be, I couldnt imagine having the cojones it must take to ride passenger on one of these F1 sidecars. They call the passengers monkeys, because theyre literally climbing all over the backs of these things at up to 180 mph, with nothing but thier grip on the handholds keeping them in. No seatbelt, no crash protection, no nothing. And these things DO crash, spin out and flip on a pretty regular basis. Granted, the drivers pretty screwed too if the thing flips, since the only way off the bike is to climb up and out of the body shell. But those people crawling all over the backs of these things while theyre pulling 3 G turns, braking, accelerating up to 180 mph, about 2 inches away from bikes on either side and behind...JESUS. Talk about massive, titanium balls. (Note: better than half of the monkeys are female; in which case, titanium ovaries.) https://youtube/watch?v=bZRFkywIoto
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 03:59:44 +0000