[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRasoZMirRc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]I know it’s a bit early to call this the Greatest Hoonage Moment Caught On YouTube for May as we’re only halfway through the run of it, but you’ve got to hand it to these kids. True hoonage lies in the innovative ways we apply too much horsepower to all the wrong devices. This time it was a merry-go-round. Next? Maybe one of those springy rocky things from the preschool yard and a steam piston off of an aircraft carrier. [Youtube]
This Month In Hoonage: Two-Stroke Roundy Round Goes Horribly Awry
By Hooniverse
May 12, 2010
Kamil Kaluski
You know how, on Mythbusters, when they can't replicate the results of a myth (or sometimes even if they do), they ramp up everything involved in the experiment well beyond what can be considered reasonable just to get a spectacular finale for the episode?
I want to see this done with a real motorcycle, and maybe a helmet or two.
I've got to wonder if he started to blackout a bit from the G's. His head goes back and then he's gone. If that were the case, the full-size motorcycle bit, as amusing as it might be, would otherwise be moot.
I believe with a real motorcycle you'd start reaching the limits of either the central bearing dealing with that kind of unbalanced force – or the limit of the attachment point to the ground.
Those big spinning Apples with the wheel in the middle make me sick. Race cars, sure, no problem. But spinning apples, screw all that.
Hey, at least he had the forethought to save his cigarette!
"Here, hold my cigarette and watch this!"
why couldn't it be the ginger…
Such perfect music at the end. Oh, greatness. Glorious departure.
I think a few years ago some kids in Britain did the same thing with a moped and it made national news for weeks. This, however, is much better. Leave it to the Germans.
Carousel…!
(They get younger all the time…)
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RENEW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJv5qLsLYoo
Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
Goodness, that brings back memories…!
Charles, I know you don't comment there much anymore but Jalop has a story that is begging for some of your classic commentary. It's right up your alley…
http://jalopnik.com/5537113/man-shows-ass-to-rall…
Needs more BMW S1000RR and fire. Hey, I am not easily entertained.
And just think that if he'd let off one second sooner the cameraman would have been knocked out, too…
OK, that's pretty cool. How about a fullsize merry go round hooked up to a top-fuel funnycar engine? That's what I'd like to see.
Where I grew up, we had traveling amusement park visiting my hometown every summer for month or so. Once policemen who's job was to guard this area decided to try fastest carousel on their own, during the night, when they were bored and probably drunk.
It seems they figured out how to start it, jumped on and were prolly thinking that it will stop after 1 cycle which was couple of minutes…..well, it didn't. Workers arriving in the morning stopped the still spinning machine, cops were dead.
While watching the slo-mo, I kept hearing the Bionic Man sound. I do that a lot when I watch YouTube and Break.com.