MooChooser

In fact, what about the bugs in your face? I cant see anything positive about not wearing a helmet. Im not even going to bother talking about leathers.

[EDIT BY REMSTER: NO PERSONNAL ATTACKS... YOU RE 1 WARNING] Do you think you look cool without a helmet? Because you actually look like a fucking wanker! I never understood it. Ive crashed my motorcycle 7 times on the street in 3 years and 3 of those were in my opinion totally unavoidable and happend whilst I was riding in a sensible manner, obeying the rules of the road. As someone said, you can highside at 20mph. Ive done it and on my way down I hit my head hard enough to crack my Arai. I was walking around confused for a while even having had a helmet on. If id been dumb enough to ride without a helmet Id have killed myself more than once. You dont need to be riding fast or hard because its not necissarily going to be your fault. I'll be amazed if you survive 20000 miles.

I think the Mach 3 power is a gimmick. I've found a regular mach 3 to be just as good. Youve probably tried everything but just in case: I get bad razor burn and find wet shaving painful unless i shave after a shower. Stand in a hot shower and hold your face in the stream whilst youre in there. Make sure the water you shave with is hot also and make sure that shaving is the first thing you do when you get out.. I cant shave with electric razors because they give me acne.

I seem to remember that theory pertains only to those items if they were in a vacuum I could be wrong, been awhile since I took physics... its probably true up to the point that one of them starts approaching terminal velocity. A can of beer and a tennis ball will both fall together for at least a story and probably more before the beer takes the lead

Its a matter of the surface area to weight ratio. Gravity exerts the same force on everything but not everything falls at the same rate unless youre in a vacuum. Short and fat probably means you fall fast Tall and skinny (like me)probably means you fall Slow. If youre a tall skinny slow faller, you can arch, allowing the air to pass you by more easily thereby exerting less drag on you. This helps you fall faster through the air. What falls faster, a ton of sponge or a ton of lead? the answers obvious because a ton of sponge is huge compared to the lead. Unless of course the lead is a sheet 1 atom thick or something, but you get the point.

Sorry man, in my opinion that doesnt look good.

Me either. So, what are you going to do about it?

Smashing pumpkins- Siamese dream

I ride a GSXR-600. Its done a lot of miles now and is getting on a bit but I dont see the point of upgrading when it still seems to be the fastest bike on the track.

Catch a fly, pull its wings off, get in the bath, poke the end of your nob out the water and put the fly on it. The fly will run around in circles creating what ive heard are exquisite sensations.

9pm where? I'll play if im up, but im 8 hours ahead of PST here in the UK.

I don't. I've jumped a lot of different places (12 so far) and while I have some that I like better than others, each has had their charms. I cannot believe you bothered to correct her spelling in that way. Kind of weird?

Obviously it either wasnt turned on or he didnt have one.

My reply was toungue in cheek. You are aware though that an accident that would be nothing more than a pain in the ass in a car can be fatal on a motorcycle right?

I know, thats why I used the word most.

Yes im a new jumper but ive been a pilot at Drop zones for a few years. At a guess id say ive flown maybe 1200 lifts in that time and had maybe 9000 people jump on them. Add onto that the other many thousands of decents made infront of me whilst other pilots were flying. Out of the whole bunch ive seen two injuries. One was a tandem passenger who put his feet down and broke an ankle and the other was me. I broke my ankle on AFF1. (expecting the manta to flare like an aircraft is what I put that down to.) If I make a conservative guess at a total of 15000 descents, that works out at about 1000 hours of airborn jumper time. If you want to include the climb to altitude and any injuries/deaths related to this, were looking at about 5000 hours of airborn jumper time. thats 2500 hours per broken bone. As a comparrison, ive ridden about 30000 miles at probably an average of 50mph. Thats 600 hours on the bike. Ive crashed it a fair few times but only broken myself once. Thats 600 hours per broken bone. Look at the figures here people, motorcycling is over 4 times more likely to cause a broken bone than skydiving. Seriously though, im only basing my opinion here on my own personal observations. Its just the way it seems to me. Obviously the dangers involved in skydiving vary hugely depending on where youre jumping, what canopy youre jumping, what kind of jump youre making etc. Some people are at a higher risk than others and its the same in everything. edited to add: Dont assume the dangers of motorcycles are always because of the rider. Ive been hit by a car through absolutely no fault of my own and lost control on sand in a corner in the past. Im lucky to have escaped with my life let alone uninjured. Just because you dont agree with my point of view shouldnt mean that you need to insult my riding skills which, may I add, are highly developed.

Im not saying its safe, all im saying is that many people percieve skydiving to be far more dangerous than it really is.

Im sorry to hear about your friends. Most skydivers who are injured or killed, are injured or killed under a good canopy. Most of these occur after a deliberate low turn. If you have no intention of performing deliberate low turns then the statistics suddenly look a whole lot different.

Its a motorcycle and yes i ride it through traffic How can you say that your statement is factual? You have no idea how far I ride or how i ride. If youre talking about low pulling, hook turning amateurs thats a different matter, but to be honest, and ive been around both sports for quite a while, motorcycling generates more injuries than skydiving. p.s. I know that its impossible to compare the 2 sports properly. I plan to do about 300 jumps a year as well as the 3000 road miles and 3-5 track days I take part in each year and if one of them is going to kill me, the smart money is on my motorcycle.

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Some people on here will argue that it is safe I dont think its as dangerous as its percieved to be. You can make it more dangerous by being careless but in my opinion im in a hell of a lot more danger riding my bike to the DZ than I am actually jumping there.

Its the same deal at Chatteris with the rounds. I asked about why there arent AADs on the rounds and apparently its because aeroconicals never mal. Doesnt help with the issue of cutting off an unconscious hang up though. Thats where the whole "instructor sliding down with a knife" scenario comes in I guess.

I used to think they were stupid before I knew anything at all about the sport. (and this was in the early 90's when I was a kid.) When you realise that jumpsuits are a tool to help improve your skydiving, what is there to hate about them? Why do you hate jumpsuits by the way? Is it purely a fashion thing?

I keep buying Dean Koontz books but I dont know why. I have read almost every book hes written but can only remember the tinyest fragment of a couple of his books. Im almost always disappointed by the weak endings. His books are all the same. Man and woman team up whilst on the run from evil, they fall in love then defeat their enemy. 70% of the time an unusually intellegent dog will make an appearence. Im reading one called life expectancy at the moment. I don't know why. Its rubbish. I think I have some sort of mental illness that makes me keep on buying his shite.

No, hes right.