Mt. Whitney Portal Store & Hostel Forums General Mt. Whitney Portal Store Message Board A New Twist on "Ridge Running"

Yes, it's real. Foxnews just interviewed the guy riding the motorcycle. Here's the link:

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-friend...-balancing-act/

Why without the fisheye lens?

to correct the perspective to real and make you realize that it's totally easy and anyone could do it?

Love wasting my lunch time...

The Media has never had the "wool pulled over their eyes?"

The rider says it's a ridge near Grand Junction, CO. The link to the summer ride is a ridge down near Jawbone Canyon...

Just too many questions to believe it... I want to see a side view before I change my mind.

I wonder if you could run it (on foot) with the $20 micros?

I was curious as if it was fake or not, so I just snooped around YouTube and found the original. I'm assuming it's the original, because the poster's other videos are similar (same helmet, same left sided helmet cam mount, same bike) although not nearly as jaw-dropping as this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE8o4sVLRBc

But if you watch the video carefully from the beginning and kind of observe where the hill starts and where the ground is mostly flat, you can kind of interpret how badly the fisheye lens distorts things and how high the guy is actually up. Still a great feat of riding and cool video none the less. I think most of the people in this forum probably cringe more because they have been on knife-edge ridges that steep (without the distortion) so the awareness of risk and danger is present. =)

I figure the site is near Grand Junction, CO. I've ridden there before between GJ and Fruita. If someone believes this is real perhaps they can explain why no snow and dirt seems to be coming up from the front tire. If you have ridden a mc in snow you would realize how much stuff gets kicked up. Also, how does one explain how a persons head remains perfectly still while riding a dirt machine? Still not buying it.

Thanks Scott...

I didn't want to seem like I was Beating a Dead Horse by bringing up the same subject... I've ridden in the snow quite a bit, and one of my Big Flaws in Maintaining Balance on A Slick Track is that I'm constantly Throwing My Head Around to keep the spray off of the front tire from hitting my goggles/shield.

Also, if I actually was good enough ride something like this, I would have panned the camera around to show that I had put tracks across it. Common Practice among those of us who love to claim First Tracks... whether on our feet, snowshoes, skis, motorcycles...

His head isn't still...it's actually flailing rather wildly. I'm sure the fact that the camera is mounted to his helmet is messing with your own personal experiences riding a bike. Just remember years ago, everyone used to think the Sun was the thing that was moving across the sky. Maybe this video might help with the skepticism:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coLT20dtB_s&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

You can see a lot of the things people have been questioning. He gets on the bike, sees his own shadow, doubles back on his own track, turns his head, and even falls off the bike. Need any more proof?

Scott M - wondering about you judging this as unreal.

Motorcycle helmets with cams mounted on the side rather than the top are not beyond the ability of consumers to install.

That such mounts are made purposely sturdy so they do not wiggle thus imaging the front part of that particular helmet as an unmoving object in the field of view.

And the riders helmet is obviously bouncing all over the place -along with the camera mounted solidly to it!

The helmet cannot move in the field of view for these reasons yet you think it should move?

I rode probably 6-700 miles down in that area last Winter/Spring (I'm talking Red Rock/Mojave, climbing about 30 "not worth the time" far-southern Sierra peaks - just wanted to be able to say I've climbed them...) and thought I had a photo of the ridge in the "summer video."

When you watch the full sequence of videos posted in the link above, the ridge ride actually becomes believable. Someone apparently did a crappy job of editing for the one posted at the start of this thread.

I know that feeling of watching the bike get away from you...