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Off to Paris
Any of you frenchies want to lend your bike to a squidly american for 3 weeks or so. Will trade one california blonde that speaks french for the chance to tear up france.
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pics for clicks of the the california blonde....
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When you drive two wheels round the streets of gay Paris you take your life in your hands, litteraly. I used to courier there for a year on an old Honda 500. One thing I learned about driving in Paris............KILL OR BE KILLED
Good luck man
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hey, it's not that bad if you simply do what everyone else does: close your eyes, ignore the horns and just go. try to stay on the street, but sidewalk surfing is accepted at times.
and it's not just the bike riders who are nuts. there's a supercross race in bercy (part of paris) every november and the usa riders go over as a group, requiring that we be shuttled around in a bus. ever hear a whole bus load of pro racers squeal like little girls? it's not pretty. i used to think they discouraged us from renting cars because the stadium is right next to the hotel. now i know the truth: we'd probably be mostly dead if we drove around there.
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So brad if you do ride there, perhaps a supercross bike might be just the ticket by the sound of things....
Just jump over that car coming at you the wrong way down a one way street.... Or pop it up on the curb and grab a 'cafe late' off someones table on the way through... Ant
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people already do all that stuff there.
from what i was told by research guys, the actual supermoto thing was re-created in the paris area. invented in the usa for tv by trippe/cox it died after a few years. as the story goes, a bunch of hooligans in the paris area took their mx bikes, swapped wheels, slapped a borrowed plate on it and went blasting around late at night. next time you're there, look around. besides those round-abouts, there's a whole bunch of fun things to jump into, onto, and down. i can easily see where a game of "follow the leader" could break out at about 3:30 am (right after dinner in some parts of that town!). there's also a "stunter's park" in france. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1585581/superbikes_uniting_the_world/ it's a designated area of asphalt surrounded by fencing where riders can go to practice and people can sit and watch. haven't been. they don't loan us motorcycles to ride on the street on the paris trip. possibly because someone tried to ride up the side of the stadium once and the promoter got stuck with a hefty bill for new grass. yea, grass. bercy omnisports stadium is mostly buried in the ground. looks like a green volcano. those stairs and steep uphill grass are just too tempting...  before you ask: the sides are a 45 degree slope. they mow the grass with a cable and pulley system rigged to a standard push lawnmower. it's one of the world's largest "living walls".
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well i was hoping that would be a fair trade ! and Blonde in french refers to a woman usualy |
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