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over a year ago
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"I once wrote to Jim'll fix it asking he could fix it for me to have a ride on a big dipper..... I think he must have read my letter wrong tho. "
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over a year ago
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The coach out of Stevenage and then from Milton keynes after Christmas 2009. Leaving my ex who had failed to tell me she was a psychotic ex head with urges to cut herself with glass and tendencies to rage quit.
That was a good ride. I got hypothermia from leaving the flat at 5am in minus ten degrees weather and having to wait for a train from Knebworth to Stevenage and then also wait for the first coach til 9am.
By the time the first coach arrived, I couldn't make a sentence or even words. Got to Milton Keynes and then got a space on an early coach and fell asleep. Woke up drooling on the shoulder of a black guy that looked and dressed like Cleveland Brown. Was also later told by another passenger that I'd also been sleep talking.
....ohhhhh you meant motorbikes? |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"The coach out of Stevenage and then from Milton keynes after Christmas 2009. Leaving my ex who had failed to tell me she was a psychotic ex head with urges to cut herself with glass and tendencies to rage quit.
That was a good ride. I got hypothermia from leaving the flat at 5am in minus ten degrees weather and having to wait for a train from Knebworth to Stevenage and then also wait for the first coach til 9am.
By the time the first coach arrived, I couldn't make a sentence or even words. Got to Milton Keynes and then got a space on an early coach and fell asleep. Woke up drooling on the shoulder of a black guy that looked and dressed like Cleveland Brown. Was also later told by another passenger that I'd also been sleep talking.
....ohhhhh you meant motorbikes? "
Thank you for sharing that. |
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The owner of a very famous race horse used to come where I used to work up in the midlands and new I had a soft soft for the said race horse, he arranged for me to visit the yard the horse was at and to meet more famous race horses, and to top it off I got to take him out into the school for half an hour!! ( horse not owner )  |
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"My first operational HALO jump...
High Altitude Low Opening para jump? Insane, I'd love to but that must have taken a lot of practice"
I was a Para...lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My first operational HALO jump...
High Altitude Low Opening para jump? Insane, I'd love to but that must have taken a lot of practice
I was a Para...lol"
Awesome, i hear HALO is a very precise manoeuver, easy to miss the point of no return with such a short space of time for accuracy? Read that about the SAS I think or maybe it was Delta Force back in the day |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Galloping bareback down a beach through the sea in Wales.
I did that in Northern France at dawn on the most gorgeous chestnut horse."
We are lucky to have beaches here, so ride quite often along the beach and into the sea bareback! Lovely feeling |
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By (user no longer on site)
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My "first solo" on my way to getting my PPL... Line up, open the throttle, pull back on the stick.... Any cock up and you're dead..... Very good for the old adrenalin rush! |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"My "first solo" on my way to getting my PPL... Line up, open the throttle, pull back on the stick.... Any cock up and you're dead..... Very good for the old adrenalin rush!"
 He said "any cock up" |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My "first solo" on my way to getting my PPL... Line up, open the throttle, pull back on the stick.... Any cock up and you're dead..... Very good for the old adrenalin rush!
He said "any cock up" "
Well within reason! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My first operational HALO jump...
High Altitude Low Opening para jump? Insane, I'd love to but that must have taken a lot of practice
I was a Para...lol
Awesome, i hear HALO is a very precise manoeuver, easy to miss the point of no return with such a short space of time for accuracy? Read that about the SAS I think or maybe it was Delta Force back in the day"
I was 1-Para SFSG and jumped with the SAS regularly as we supported them on ops.
The ponr is very fine and the slightest miscalculation ends badly, you can't just pull your chute either because of the velocity you're traveling at so you begin a routine several thousand feet before you deploy your main. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"riding a unicorn over a rainbow...ahhh what wonderful stuff that fly agaric is"
Tried that when i was young and not so wise, did nothing but spew for 2 day solid lol
Best ride i ever had was on the back of a huge motorbike when i was in my teens, cant remember what bike it was exacty but it was a yamaha and looked like a harley, hit 130 down the m4 though.
the other best ride was a derestricted BMW M5 down the same stretch of the m4, went faster than the 155 they supposed to do anyway lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My first operational HALO jump...
High Altitude Low Opening para jump? Insane, I'd love to but that must have taken a lot of practice
I was a Para...lol
Awesome, i hear HALO is a very precise manoeuver, easy to miss the point of no return with such a short space of time for accuracy? Read that about the SAS I think or maybe it was Delta Force back in the day
I was 1-Para SFSG and jumped with the SAS regularly as we supported them on ops.
The ponr is very fine and the slightest miscalculation ends badly, you can't just pull your chute either because of the velocity you're traveling at so you begin a routine several thousand feet before you deploy your main."
Has got to be the freakiest feeling ever, plummetting to your potential doom and having to keep a good mind for calculation. Though I suppose a certain kind of people are calmer in crazy situations; like the kind of soldiers they screen for the SAS |
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Best ride I have had is on a stallion I used to have, he was a handful and very challenging and unpredictable especially when around mares,but was always an exciting ride |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My first operational HALO jump...
High Altitude Low Opening para jump? Insane, I'd love to but that must have taken a lot of practice
I was a Para...lol
Awesome, i hear HALO is a very precise manoeuver, easy to miss the point of no return with such a short space of time for accuracy? Read that about the SAS I think or maybe it was Delta Force back in the day
I was 1-Para SFSG and jumped with the SAS regularly as we supported them on ops.
The ponr is very fine and the slightest miscalculation ends badly, you can't just pull your chute either because of the velocity you're traveling at so you begin a routine several thousand feet before you deploy your main.
Has got to be the freakiest feeling ever, plummetting to your potential doom and having to keep a good mind for calculation. Though I suppose a certain kind of people are calmer in crazy situations; like the kind of soldiers they screen for the SAS"
Not really what I'd call freeky, obviously you have a considerable number of jumps under your belt and the training is drilled into you over the course of weeks before you even attempt it.
It is a rush, falling towards the earth at over 450mph knowing that if your main fails your reserve really won't do anything to help.
HAHO jumps are what I'd call freeky...lol |
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I've got two (is that allowed?). The first was a zipwire down Wildcat Mountain in New Hampshire last year and the second was the first time I used a Kamagra Jelly. The thrill was similar though, although the second one lasted way way longer!
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Galloping bareback down a beach through the sea in Wales.
I did that in Northern France at dawn on the most gorgeous chestnut horse.
We are lucky to have beaches here, so ride quite often along the beach and into the sea bareback! Lovely feeling "
Are you allowed to say bareback ? |
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Two for me (greedy) first was on the back of a motorbike where I was told to keep my head down and hold on. I wondered at the time (I was about 10) why all the cars had stopped. They hadn't, we were just going so fast it appeared that way. Second was when I piloted a small aeroplane by myself for about 15 minutes. I pretended I was in a Spitfire. |
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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago
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"Galloping bareback down a beach through the sea in Wales.
I did that in Northern France at dawn on the most gorgeous chestnut horse.
We are lucky to have beaches here, so ride quite often along the beach and into the sea bareback! Lovely feeling
Are you allowed to say bareback ? "
Reckless and irresponsible, the pair of you ! |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"Galloping bareback down a beach through the sea in Wales.
I did that in Northern France at dawn on the most gorgeous chestnut horse.
We are lucky to have beaches here, so ride quite often along the beach and into the sea bareback! Lovely feeling
Are you allowed to say bareback ?
Reckless and irresponsible, the pair of you ! "
Julie and Lucy I assume he means you two. |
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