From: mike wilson
---- 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
That ain't scary at all. THIS is scary!
http://www.wimp.com/balancingrubiks/
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