Cycling the eye of hurricane?

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Cycling the eye of hurricane?

#1 Postby BReb » Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:21 pm

Any reason a person could not get in a bicycle on a road heading north, in the eye of a hurricane travelling north at 12 mph and just have a very interesting bike ride for 50 miles or so? I'm not planning on doing this, but it's interesting to think what it would be like.
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#2 Postby Canelaw99 » Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:22 pm

Hey Breb - pass over some of what you've been drinkin' or smokin' bud!!!! LOL j/k
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#3 Postby Eyes2theSkies » Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:23 pm

there has been reports in the past of flocks of birds stuck in the eye of a storm out at sea..
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#4 Postby Guest » Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:24 pm

What do you do when the eye closes over land?
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#5 Postby Scorpion » Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:25 pm

Lol that would be interesting to do with a car. Get out of the house right when the eye passes. You're going to have to be very careful what routes you take, because a wrong turn could mean death. Also the debris on the roads, and the flooding. Still, im sure some people have done it before.
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#6 Postby Canelaw99 » Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:27 pm

NCstateWOLF wrote:What do you do when the eye closes over land?


Duck??? LOL
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#7 Postby Guest » Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:28 pm

lol I know right
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#8 Postby Possum Trot » Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:30 pm

Better hope the hurricane follows a road.
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#9 Postby Guest » Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:41 pm

or you could jog.... :P
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#10 Postby Buck » Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:46 pm

The eye will fill in after too long on land, though. ;)
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#11 Postby kokomo » Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:51 pm

Run Forest runnnn! LOL

Only trouble with that theory is, your going to have downed trees and debris all over the roads. How about a rocketcar instead...hehe
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#12 Postby BReb » Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:59 pm

"Only trouble with that theory is, your going to have downed trees and debris all over the roads."

That's why I said bicycle and not car. Get a mountain bike and you can get past such unpleasantess. I'm talking an extreme sport here, guys. I guarantee you if some daredevil mountain biker did it and made a video out of the trip, it'd make a pretty penny.

Just imagine- the camera would pan around and you'd see an active hurricane while the hero cyclist struggled to stay in the eye. Uh, oh- there's the eye wall closing fast (see debris flying nearby). Time to go offroad! (Rock music blaring in the video background). Crap, not fast enough! (You see the cyclist getting blown around and diving for cover.)

I'd buy the video. So would a lot of you, I'm sure.
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#13 Postby LuckyStrike » Wed Sep 15, 2004 6:10 pm

BReb,
Make it dirtbikes and I'm so there with you. At least, I'd do that before jumping from a plane like my girlfriend is trying to have me do. That would be just idiotic
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#14 Postby al79philly » Wed Sep 15, 2004 6:11 pm

At least, I'd do that before jumping from a plane like my girlfriend is trying to have me do. That would be just idiotic


Does she want you to wear a parachute? If not, I would find a new girlfriend....
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#15 Postby The Dark Knight » Wed Sep 15, 2004 6:13 pm

hahahahaha..... So far: bikes, dirtbikes, cars..... anything else?????????????????....lOL
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