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Pete @ Mar 27th 2008 2:11PM
sounds smart to me... let's sink a motorcycle full of fuel, oil, and other environmentally unfriendly stuff at the bottom of a lake. even if they do recover the bike, what about the fluids that leaked out of it?
FSM @ Mar 27th 2008 2:36PM
I agree with you. But lets now prepare ourselves for the envirohippy insults in 3 ... 2 ... 1 .....
why not the LS2LS7? @ Mar 27th 2008 2:45PM
Been there, done that. Travis Pastrana already had to deal with your like back when he jumped into the San Francisco Bay during the X-Games.
One motorcycle in a lake for 20 minutes isn't a bigger deal than a couple boats with outboard motors moored at a dock for several months.
why not the LS2LS7? @ Mar 27th 2008 2:47PM
see here.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/1999/07/07/MN60909.DTL
Andre @ Mar 27th 2008 3:01PM
You making the motorcycle sound like an Oil tanker, lol..
It's a Motorcycle, not enough a gas or oil in it to cause cause an environmental concern, Now if 100 - 1000 people did it then yeah..
Scorch @ Mar 27th 2008 3:03PM
I agree. Let's call the UN and inform them that someone has just jumped a bike containing approximately one gallon of gasoline/oil into a lake containing millions of gallons of water.
But seriously, if everyone were doing it, it would be a problem. I seriously doubt after seeing this stunt everyone with a dirtbike is going to flock to Costa Rica and try it for themselves.
Be rational.
Disgruntled Goat @ Mar 27th 2008 5:43PM
RE: "sounds smart to me... let's sink a motorcycle full of fuel, oil, and other environmentally unfriendly stuff at the bottom of a lake."
Not taking sides one way or the other, but you do wonder why they couldn't simply tether a float to the thing so they could retrieve it. How hard is that?
ryan @ Mar 30th 2008 9:39PM
When he did the SF bay jump, they drained nearly all fluids and gas just so the bike hand enough to last for the two minute run - the impact on the bay from the bike was nilch. He probably did the same thing this time.
I know this because I see said bike every day in the front lobby at my office.