| Author | Message | ||
     Barker |
Whatever I might try to write can never fully describe how kick a$$ this was. Right after I finished shooting the women's world championships today, I got to ride a 4 man bobsled with a USA's olympic team dirver at the wheel. I rode as brake man.  Me telling a olympic medalist how to drive a sled.    (Message edited by barker on February 21, 2009) | ||
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| Bluzm2 |
That is TOO cool! Something on my bucket list I'll probably never get to do... | ||
| Boney95 |
That's pretty sweet man! Lucky ******!! Did they tell you what your top speed was? | ||
| Barker |
We hit 69mph. We did not push off ourselves. We got a little push to get going. IMHO I would have blacked out if we went any faster. They said we pulled about at 4Gs one point. Here is little vidja I made, It has alot of inside jokes from work. I wish we had more footage/pix of our races, but we were the camera crew and riders. We shot each other as much as we could. Available in HD (Message edited by barker on February 23, 2009) | ||
| Krjoseph |
That's SO cool. I'd love to try that sometime. | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
Ft keeps asking me to do a 2 man luge. Obviously, I'd be on top. | ||
| Seanp |
That looks like an awesome experience. Think you'll need an assistant in ten or fifteen years when I retire from the Army? You seem to have a pretty kick-ass job. | ||
| 65460 |
Thats cool, and had to be a blast, now go do this and get back to us: http://www.nzskeletonracer.com/What_is_Skeleton_Ra cing.htm  | ||
| Barker |
65460, Guess what I'm doing tomorrow???? Head First! FYI: That driver is Mike Hohn, 2002 Bronze Meadlist and team USA's 2 and 4 man bobsled driver and National Guard Soldier. (Message edited by barker on February 21, 2009) | ||
| Nevrenuf |
you keep on posting all this cool snizit that you get to do, i'm gonna have to lay in front of a steam roller to keep me from thinking my life is so lame in comparison. | ||
| Carparts009 |
Glad to see our sponsorship being put to good use...I work for Vilter(can see our logo in the fourth pic) and we've got a lot of pictures of that sled all over work...they even brought one in and we got to sit in it though I know that's nothing compared to going for a ride | ||
| Xl1200r |
Barker - How do you like my neck of the woods? I've never done the bobsled track in the winter, but during the summer months they run the bottom half on a wheeled bobsled and I've done that. Pretty neat. Check out the Ski Jump complex if you have time - the views from the high tower are spectacular. | ||
| Barker |
Yep, the towers were nice, but it snowed most of the time, it killed visibility. Yall got some ruff roads! |
