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Old 11-13-2014, 08:53 AM   #1040 (permalink)
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^how the hell...

He's dropping seemingly hundreds of feet through the air, dropping down onto the bike. How is he/the bike not utterly destroyed from the impact?!
Aerodynamics and great shocks. You wouldn't believe the amount of technical preparation goes into his stunts. An ex-coworker was one of the tech advisers on this stunt he did in Vegas a few years back. They did months of prep, simulations, and practice runs prior to the actual filming.

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