FabSwingers.com forum: Extreme sports.

By *ete vfr OP Man
47 weeks ago

Morley Leeds

We all know the thrill of swinging and nervous anticipation involved in the first meeting. But I am curious about what extreme sports people have taken part in.

Mine was Sidecar Racing in the 80s. one inch off the ground doing 165 mph on a platform not much bigger that a Tea tray and hang out by your balls for the corners. A very misunderstood sport.

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By *urkishcemalMan
47 weeks ago

yorkshire

I like sand dunes with buggies back home

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By (user no longer on site)
47 weeks ago

I can only assume it was your massive Cojones keeping the sidecar flat through turns! 😳

Given your username, I assume you're still gripping and ripping V4 Hondas? 800 or 1200 though?

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By *ete vfr OP Man
47 weeks ago

Morley Leeds

your right there its a Honda VFR 800 I ride on the road.

A bad accident in 86 brought the best three years of my life to an end, when my best mate the driver was lost and I suffered a blood clot on the brain

(now recovered)

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By *ete vfr OP Man
47 weeks ago

Morley Leeds

Like myself you will know there is a lot of hard work behind the scenes to make it to the start line.

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By *rad670Man
47 weeks ago

South Lakes

I've given up almost all now being 60 and tamed it down a bit to wing foiling but I've had a go at anything I liked the look of just like being on here really. Skydiving, paragliding, wakeboarding, kitesurfing, windsurfing, sailing, mountainboarding, hill climbing (motorsport), scuba diving, pretty much anything that could result in injury or death LOL. my kids joke with me on how I've managed to live to my age, life is very short with lots to fit in.

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By *iGuyForCouplesMan
47 weeks ago

Would running 100miles ultra marathons count as extre sports?

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By *hGlobbitsMan
47 weeks ago

Leeds

Road cycling at rush hour in Liverpool. Those taxi drivers are a law unto themselves

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By *ez188Man
47 weeks ago

Bromsgrove

Got an R1 that I take on track days as I can’t afford any more points on the license.

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By *007ManMan
47 weeks ago

Worthing

Scrambling on a Raleigh 'Chopper' bike.

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By *lderflowerAppleWoman
47 weeks ago

Hampshire

I jumped out of a plane at 15,000 feet once and freefalled for one minute at 125mph.

Thankfully I was strapped onto a very hunky chap with a parachute.

I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

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By *artorialMan
47 weeks ago

weymouth

Rebreather scuba, the environment and your kit are all out to kill you in imaginative and bizarre ways

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By *ete vfr OP Man
47 weeks ago

Morley Leeds

Great stuff, and like me you can say that you have lived a life.

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By *ete vfr OP Man
47 weeks ago

Morley Leeds

I have for a long time thought about doing a tandem parachute jump.

And you can say that you have lived a life rather than letting it pass you bye.

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By *gent CoulsonMan
47 weeks ago

Secret hideaway in the pennines

Free fall parachuting, when I was a lot younger, 120 solo jumps under my belt before a malfunction, which the then wife witnessed

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By *ete vfr OP Man
47 weeks ago

Morley Leeds

Scrambling on one of those buggers

I recently bought one of the Mk2 choppers

I tried riding it and I dont know if its my age or dodgy balance from head injuries. But the dam thing is lethal

wobbling all over the road.

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By *ete vfr OP Man
47 weeks ago

Morley Leeds

I guess that you used your reserve chute and survived that one. pretty much like me in 1986 at Cadwell Park we had a bad accident my best mate the driver was lost

and I suffered a blood clot on the brain

But once fit I had another go in 1993.

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By *ete vfr OP Man
47 weeks ago

Morley Leeds

That sounds like riding a motorcycle on the roads. Where every myopic car driver is out to kill you.

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By *ete vfr OP Man
47 weeks ago

Morley Leeds

Have you ever done a track day at Cadwel Park. The best circuit in the country.

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By *ete vfr OP Man
47 weeks ago

Morley Leeds

if you think that is bad try riding a Motorcycle in rush hour.

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By *ete vfr OP Man
47 weeks ago

Morley Leeds

At my age yes I would call it an extreme sport.

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By *rPunxMan
47 weeks ago

Hull

Ex full contract fighter

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By *angled up in twoCouple
47 weeks ago

West Mids

I once read that fishing was the participation sport that took more lives than any other sport, extreme or not.

Take that speedsters, not as extreme as you like to think you are.

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By *udandBryanCouple
47 weeks ago

Boston

Insurance companies class full contact medieval combat as an extreme sport. We don't, as we try to not hurt each other (though when we get it right, it looks like we're trying to kill each other)

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By *rPunxMan
47 weeks ago

Hull

"Insurance companies class full contact medieval combat as an extreme sport. We don't, as we try to not hurt each other (though when we get it right, it looks like we're trying to kill each other)"
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Always fancied a go at this

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By *udandBryanCouple
47 weeks ago

Boston

Always fancied a go at this "

Easily done (one of our new members is from Hull) just Google Knights of Skirbeck, and grey in touch with any questions

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By *quirrel!Man
47 weeks ago

Wirral

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By *aggy dollsCouple
47 weeks ago

bradford

I used to partake in inline skating (halfpipe and street) bmx (halfpipe and street) and also downhill mountain biking, that was until I discovered cars and got lazy.

Mr H

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