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#4291090 - 08/27/16 10:52 PM Riding a Unicycle around the top of a 840ft Chimney.  
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Watch this video full screen, if you can.

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



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#4291105 - 08/28/16 12:01 AM Re: Riding a Unicycle around the top of a 840ft Chimney. [Re: JimK]  
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I could stomach the first 40 seconds then had to quit when the juggling started

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#4291109 - 08/28/16 12:15 AM Re: Riding a Unicycle around the top of a 840ft Chimney. [Re: FrenchToast]  
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Originally Posted By: FrenchToast
I could stomach the first 40 seconds then had to quit when the juggling started

FT


It took me 3 times to finally sit through it. First 2 times just could not watch it anymore.
That journey down, OMG.


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#4291110 - 08/28/16 12:22 AM Re: Riding a Unicycle around the top of a 840ft Chimney. [Re: JimK]  
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yikes!


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#4291301 - 08/28/16 10:58 PM Re: Riding a Unicycle around the top of a 840ft Chimney. [Re: JimK]  
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I drove around a circular brick border around a flower bed yesterday, and thought about that video. So many things could go wrong...


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#4292261 - 08/31/16 08:06 PM Re: Riding a Unicycle around the top of a 840ft Chimney. [Re: JimK]  
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Watching it didn't bother me particularly (I used to work with Radio / TV towers for a couple years in my teens), but that said, the guy is still "bat-sh*t crazy".

Even on the towers, I used a belt / clip harness, and let's face it -- anyone who rides unicycles is a little weird, if not mentally suspect from the get go dizzy (in my book), never mind doing so on top of a smokestack... Sheesh!


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#4292274 - 08/31/16 08:44 PM Re: Riding a Unicycle around the top of a 840ft Chimney. [Re: JimK]  
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A crumbling smokestack for sure, watching the decent, makes you wonder how they got up there.


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#4292279 - 08/31/16 08:55 PM Re: Riding a Unicycle around the top of a 840ft Chimney. [Re: JimK]  
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I had no problems watching the video. If dumbarse or his idiot buddy had fallen, I doubt there would be a video on YouTube.

Also remember that the GoPro's "fish eye" exaggerates the sense of height considerably.

Try looking down from the edge of the Watzmann east face, which is 1800 m of straight wall. smile

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#4292284 - 08/31/16 09:08 PM Re: Riding a Unicycle around the top of a 840ft Chimney. [Re: JimK]  
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In Vienna we have a subway station with a circular light opening, covered by really thick plexy. About 50m or so between bottom floor and that glass. I hate going up there (on the surface it's an about 50cm elevated podium near to a well-known public place). Is however much fun to have a girl step on there with you (if they don't know what it is) and then have them look down.

#4292286 - 08/31/16 09:11 PM Re: Riding a Unicycle around the top of a 840ft Chimney. [Re: JimK]  
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Originally Posted By: JimK

That journey down, OMG.


When he looks straight down the ladder.....

Also, some of those rungs seemed rusted...

FT


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