[MMike]

Did you see the guy who went 104 mph down the side of a volcano? First he did it on what I could have sworn looked like a Giant DH Comp. Then he tried it again on one of those Jan Karpiel type snow DH bikes. The thing snapped in two at about 100 mph. Wasn't pretty but he was basically ok.

 

[llkoolkeg]

Old footage, but yes- I've seen it. Must be fun rag-dolling in a skinsuit at that speed. He's lucky to be alive.

 

[MMike]

Yeah I've seen most of that stuff before. (towing the boat with a helicopter etc...) I hadn't seen that one though.

 

[derekbob]

I remember reading how the bike speed record was broken on a Giant team DH.

 

[Kornphlake]

Originally posted by derekbob
I remember reading how the bike land speed record was broken on a Giant team DH.

Well then I guess they really are the fastest bikes on the planet.

 

[bushwacker]

If it's the one I saw, the second bike he used, the one he 'went for the record' on, was built in his garage by him and his buddy.

One show had some shots of it in process. scary looking sh1t

 

[Tenchiro]

Sounds like the show on TLC or Discovery called 'More than Human'. The one I saw shoewed a guy that was trapped in that double decker bridge during the last big earthquake in the bay area.

They went as a far a recreating the accident and everything.

 

[punkassean]

Originally posted by MMike
Did you see the guy who went 104 mph down the side of a volcano...on one of those Jan Karpiel type snow DH bikes. The thing snapped in two at about 100 mph. Wasn't pretty but he was basically ok.

Did you mean Dan Hannebrink? I don't know of any Karpiel snow bikes?

 

[MMike]

Originally posted by punkassean
Did you mean Dan Hannebrink? I don't know of any Karpiel snow bikes?

No idea who it was. But Jan Karpiel broke some speed records on on of those funky carbon fiber, straight line type bikes. I just meant it was that kind of bike.

 

[punkassean]

I didn't know Jan did that, cool