Swan Lake Smells of Two Stroke

If you wake up today and you are feeling a little 'edgy' then I would like to suggest an activity that will test your dexterity, poise and resolve. 

If you have children, just pop out to the garage and grab one of their bicycles. If you don't have children, or a bicycle of your own, just steal one - kids often leave them lying around in playgrounds.

Grab your outdoor table, or if you don't have one of those then drag your dining room table out onto the lawn.

Now extricate your ladder from the bowels of the garden shed and lean it up against your gutter. 

Climb (with your bicycle) up onto the roof of your house. 

With caution, make your way to the edge of the roof - be careful. Can you see the table? Good. 

Dial 000 and state your name and address.

Now straddle the bike, jump off the roof, land on the table remaining upright and balanced with both feet still on the pedals.

How did you go? Did it hurt? Much? 

If you lack the resolve to try such a feat, but you would still like some perspective, see image below. Now, imagine doing a very similar feat on a motorbike. It may be a struggle to comprehend but people actually do this!!!! They did it last night and they will be doing again tonight at Barbagallo Baseball Park in Thornlie.

The fact that anyone can do what is basically PARKOUR on a motorbike simply staggers me. The fact that pro-athletes in extreme sports crash hard, get up and keep riding (often with what would normally be considered debilitating injuries) baffles my brain. Neil Price did both last night.

Riding what they call the Titan Tyres (about a dozen mine machinery sized tyres layed sideways and upright), Neil lost the front end of his bike into the centre of a tyre and went over the handlebars, planting the front end of his body into the turf. He got up, got his s%%t back in one sock and was the first and only rider to tackle an insane set of concrete columns without one foot coming off the bike.Watch it - . Australian XTrials - it makes bits of my brain dribble out of my ears.

And if that is not crazy enough check out the Nolan Brothers - Nolan Bros Circus

The capacity of the human mind and body is beyond reckoning and I was witness to that last night.