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Old 01-09-2011, 05:55 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Old 01-10-2011, 05:27 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Whenever I rode my motorcycle this way...people always shouted at me.."YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!!"

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...one wrong "slip" and I'll bet his voice was a lot higher-in-pitch after the race!
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Whenever I rode my motorcycle this way...people always shouted at me.."YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!!"

Good ol' Rollie Free...

This picture is far more famous though:


He tore his leathers, so for his final run he did it in just a speedo.

Good thing he didn't wreck...

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You know they could've made a safer bike design to get the same effect... instead of having a rubber table saw blade inches from his crotch. Yikes!
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