{"id":16252,"date":"2019-11-25T20:55:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T07:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/?p=16252"},"modified":"2021-11-17T18:04:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T05:04:41","slug":"living-vicariously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/like\/living-vicariously\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVING VICARIOUSLY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Get a dose of speed.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Long ago in the 90&#8217;s I was into the new sport of downhill mountainbiking. Back then we started out riding hardtails with three inch travel forks and it was like racing kango hammers. We got punished!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>These days I&#8217;m a broken old fart who makes creaking noises walking down stairs, so to get a bit of a downhill adrenaline rush I look at go-pro vids on Youtube (one of the few things that Youtube don&#8217;t censor)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>This run by Dan Atherton is fucking madcore &#8211; in the top section if he wiped out all those tree stumps would turn him into pet food, and further down in the tree sections he is moving so fast its only after he pulls a move that you can grasp what he just did. Jesus this is full on &#8211; the most intense ride I&#8217;ve ever seen!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dan Atherton Sends It Down the Hardline MTB Track | Red Bull Hardline: GoPro View\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DhBPFr3RRso?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Now this world championship 2011 run by Danny Hart ( a different fast Dan) isn&#8217;t go pro but the commentators more than make up for it &#8211; they are hilarious &#8211; &#8220;How does he sit down with balls that big?&#8221; and the track is as slippery as it gets. This run has been described as a masterclass in technical wet riding<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Danny Hart&#039;s 2011 World Championship Winning Downhill Run at Champery\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EqYgAX6D43Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/danny-hart-2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/danny-hart-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/danny-hart-2011.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/danny-hart-2011-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/danny-hart-2011-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I really enjoyed watching this run by Rachael Atherton (sister of Dan) because I can sort of imagine riding it all, and I&#8217;m fully into the track. The spectators are a bunch of noisy numpties &#8211; cow bells, air horns, deranged screaming, and even chainsaws revving &#8211; but it all adds to the excitement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GoPro: Rachel Atherton&#039;s Record-Breaking Victory - UCI Mountain Bike World Cup 2016\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lhTFVa0h9Rk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rachael-atherton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rachael-atherton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rachael-atherton.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rachael-atherton-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rachael-atherton-500x334.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rachael-atherton-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Now if all that wasn&#8217;t exciting enough, next watch this vid of Led Zep doing Whole Lotta love, or just take some amphetamines&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love (Official Music Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HQmmM_qwG4k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>FROT WEBSITE<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>FROT BLOG<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/blog\">\u00a0https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/blog<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>GAB FROT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palnet.io\/@frot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.gab<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/gab.com\/frot\">.com\/frot<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>STEEMIT FROT <a href=\"https:\/\/steemit.com\/@frot\">https:\/\/steemit.com\/@frot<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>STEEMIT SIFT666 <a href=\"https:\/\/steemit.com\/@sift666\">https:\/\/steemit.com\/@sift666<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/www.frot_.co_.nz_.800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/www.frot_.co_.nz_.800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/www.frot_.co_.nz_.800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/www.frot_.co_.nz_.800-200x37.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/www.frot_.co_.nz_.800-500x92.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get a dose of speed. Long ago in the 90&#8217;s I was into the new sport of downhill mountainbiking. Back then we started out riding hardtails with three inch travel forks and it was like racing kango hammers. We got punished! These days I&#8217;m a broken old fart who makes creaking noises walking down stairs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[33,49,47,34],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dan-atherton-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9448,"url":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/computing\/cycle-services-newsletters-index\/","url_meta":{"origin":16252,"position":0},"title":"Cycle Services Newsletters Index","date":"October 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Cycle Services Newsletters Index The original Cycle Services Newsletters are all still online (All the links below will take you to the original CS Newsletters on the CS website) November 2000 One last CS Newsletter for the fans September 1999 Consume a substantial portion of roasted meat July 1999 Try\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;COMPUTING&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.frot.co.nz\/cs\/images_newsletters\/CS-Logo2.light.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12863,"url":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/conspiracies\/that-sinking-feeling\/","url_meta":{"origin":16252,"position":1},"title":"THAT SINKING FEELING","date":"January 10, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"GOING DOWN LIKE A SINKING SHIP Like all of us who have been around a while, eventually I've come to recognise that sinking feeling. 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