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May 1st, 2009, 02:13 PM
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Live Life
Name: Don
Location: Lincoln, NE
Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): 2009 Green SE Ninja 250 Posts: A lot.
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Cannonball Run - Paris Style
If you haven't seen this you won't believe it. If you have, enjoy again.
On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris early in the morning. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur. No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit. The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140 MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real one-way streets. Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch was arrested. He has never revealed the identity of the driver, and the film went underground.
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May 1st, 2009, 02:26 PM
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Name: Rick
Location: Alexandria, Louisiana
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WOW!!! That was some awesome footage. He was doing some major downshifting just before the turns. That was some skillful driving!!!
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May 1st, 2009, 08:20 PM
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Back on the Black!
Name: Alan
Location: Gastonia, North Carolina
Join Date: Jan 2009 Motorcycle(s): 2006 Kawasaki Ninja EX250 (Black) Posts: 831
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WOW! That's some serious driving!
I think he actually took out a couple of pigeons there at one point ... |
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May 2nd, 2009, 12:32 AM
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Name: Wade
Location: Sydney, Australia
Join Date: Feb 2009 Motorcycle(s): Black 2009 Ninja 250 Posts: 52
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Nice. now look up Ghostrider from sweeden and watch someone do similar things on a hyabusa turbo.
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May 2nd, 2009, 01:10 AM
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dirty old man
Name: Chris
Location: Hazel Green, AL
Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): Blue '08 Ninja 250 Posts: A lot.
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kewl, fancy driving,
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May 2nd, 2009, 06:30 AM
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Back on the Black!
Name: Alan
Location: Gastonia, North Carolina
Join Date: Jan 2009 Motorcycle(s): 2006 Kawasaki Ninja EX250 (Black) Posts: 831
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Quote:
http://www.ghostridermovie.net/start.html |
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May 2nd, 2009, 11:26 PM
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ninjette.org member
Name: Wade
Location: Sydney, Australia
Join Date: Feb 2009 Motorcycle(s): Black 2009 Ninja 250 Posts: 52
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May 6th, 2009, 02:16 PM
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ninjette.org certified postwhore
Name: Alex
Location: Belfast, ME
Join Date: Jul 2008 Motorcycle(s): 2010 Honda NT-700-V, formerly, Green 2008 Ninja 250R Posts: A lot.
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Enzo would have been proud. Great drivig in a great car. I have always maintained that anything after Ferrarri is footnote.
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May 6th, 2009, 02:28 PM
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Ms. Personality
Name: CB
Location: Murvill, TN
Join Date: Jan 2009 Motorcycle(s): Depends on the week you ask Posts: A lot.
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That was extremely irresponsible, immature and reckless. But very freakin cool!!! What skills. It's much harder to drive on a non-groomed street with pedestrians, birds and other vehicles than it is on a race track. Wow!!
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