---- Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > Christian Skofteland wrote: > > >On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 07:22:46PM -0000, Bob W wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > >> > The real question is why would you want to go to France ? > >> > > > >> > > http://bil-tv.23video.com/video/551798/rendezvous-in-paris > >> > > >> > Cool ride, but you know damn well if I tried something like > >> > that, we'd be segueing into a thread about the cooking in > >> > FRENCH JAILS. > >> > >> I forwarded this to a few friends, one of whom replied with an > >> explanation. > >> > >> I thought it was a motor bike, but apparently it was a Ferrari 275 gtb > >> fitted with a gyro-stabilised camera on the bumper and driven by a F1 > >> driver, whose name has never been revealed by the director, Lelouch. > >> > >> Apparently Lelouch was arrested when the film was first shown in public. > >> > >> No roads were closed, the driver ran a lot of red lights, nearly hit a lot > >> of pedestrians, and drove the wrong way up a lot of one-way streets. > >> > >> So nothing special for France in the 1970s. > > > >Almost but not quite. "A photo has surfaced that seems to reveal an Eclair > >cam-flex 35mm camera with a wide angle lens, and a typical "speed rail" hard > >mount - no gyros - on a Mercedes... A making-of-the-rendezvous documentary > >indicates that Lelouch himself was the driver, that the car driven was the > >Mercedes, although the sound track is from a Ferrari." > > Definitely dubbed engine sounds and tire squeals. And I don't think > the top speed was anywhere near some of the 200kph people have > speculated. The very low camera position exaggerates the speed and it > still doesn't look very fast to me. Find a copy of "Pascal's Ride on > La Peripherique" for comparison.
I wouldn't fancy doing it on a bike because of the lovely, greasy cobbles. But you don't have to go quickly for things to be scary..... http://wimp.com/scarytrail -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
