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Learn how to ride your bike off a 3,000 foot drop and live to tell about it

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Answer: Use a parachute. That's exactly what Stefan Oberlander did (you knew there had to be a catch, right?).

 

It's called Base-jumping

and Oberlander was the first man to successfully land a base-jump on a

mountain bike. Just in case you think that sounds easy, I'll let Stefan

explain:

Keeping the bike and landing on it

changes everything. If you keep it, you enter a totally different level

of commitment as you must attach the bike to you; with all the

possibilities for entanglements of your gear and only 1 parachute quite

a step.

So far, everybody who has tried Base-jumping on a bike dropped it due

to the complexity and the dangers involved in keeping the bike during

freefall, deployment and landing.

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old news as it happened in July of 2006, however, I don't remember it getting much coverage at that time.

 

 

 

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