another not for the faint of heart

[Fritz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXC8r1xiaQ

yeow

[lost in space]

Sheesh! What cajones!

Did a little digging - here's some coverage of one of the events there, to give a sense of scale:

Red Bull Rampage

[Kraniac]

Damn..not without a rope attached to a different planet.

That other vid where the dudes were riding that trail along that Canyon (did i see that here?) was much scarier for me..it got me EXTREMELY uncomfortable as I was a watching it...was wondering if the guys in the other video had technical parachutes on their backs. I was lurching in and gripping in my chair watching that canyon deal...felt a bit queasy too.

[DeusxMac]

While not diminishing the inherent danger, the narrow, almost tunnel-like field of view in this and similar "gopro" cam style videos makes them more nausea-producing than the rider's full field of view and control of where to be looking at any instant would be.

[jdc]

DeusxMac wrote:
While not diminishing the inherent danger, the narrow, almost tunnel-like field of view in this and similar "gopro" cam style videos makes them more nausea-producing than the rider's full field of view and control of where to be looking at any instant would be.

I agree. Not take away from what these guys are doing, but its not as narrow as it looks via GoPro.

back int eh day I raced some pretty narrow singletrack -- you might be surprised how little space was actually needed.

[lost in space]

DeusxMac wrote:
While not diminishing the inherent danger, the narrow, almost tunnel-like field of view in this and similar "gopro" cam style videos makes them more nausea-producing than the rider's full field of view and control of where to be looking at any instant would be.

If you look at the vid on the Rampage site, you get a more realistic perspective that still makes me cringe. Not so nauseating, just makes my palms sweat.