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PugJesus@piefed.socialM to HistoryPhotos@piefed.socialEnglish · 2 days ago

Rollie Free breaking speed records on a motorcycle, positioned and clothed to minimize wind resistance, Utah, USA, 1948

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Rollie Free breaking speed records on a motorcycle, positioned and clothed to minimize wind resistance, Utah, USA, 1948

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PugJesus@piefed.socialM to HistoryPhotos@piefed.socialEnglish · 2 days ago
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    if you think “at least he wears a helmet” you are wrong:

    [W]hen his leathers tore from early runs at 147 mph (237 km/h), he discarded them and made a final attempt without a jacket, pants, gloves, boots, or helmet. Free lay flat on the motorcycle wearing only a bathing suit, a shower cap, and a pair of borrowed sneakers.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollie_Free#Biography

    • 𝔄 𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔭𝔦𝔢𝔠𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔢𝔰𝔢@lemmy.world
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      The fuck kind of Temu ass leather tears from wind at that speed.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
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        I think he may have fallen down and torn them that way. Which only highlights how insane this is.

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      I dunno, that’s a super shiny rounded shower cap with a little bevel around it.

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        That’s totally a helmet. It’s probably mostly just there to hold his brains in during an accident, but it’s not a fucking swim cap.

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        Falls in the shower are no joke. People die from that. Always wear a shower cap.

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    “clothed” isn’t really the word I would use, more like “stripped”.

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    Extraterrestrial Interviewer: And what might be a good representative example of the . . . “common Earth male”?

    Me: *points*

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    Rollie Free seems like a really apt name for this guy

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    How was he able to stay balanced on the bike with his massive balls in the way?

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollie_Free

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    His pecker touches that tire, it’s getting yanked right off.

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    That fender must be hot as hell with a 10billion rpm tire under it, no?

    Crazy fucker, Rollie.

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      It’s not the tire that makes it hot, it’s the sun on it before he slapped his massive balls there.

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    Imagine the road rash if he were to come off while trying to break the speed record…

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      The road rash as in “the road now looks red like it has a rash”?

      Those speeds aren’t Road rash, they’re meat crayon territory.

      And I don’t know if there would be much meat left by the time the crayon stopped.

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      Well it probably wouldn’t be his problem what with the being dead and all.

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    Glad he’s not known as a meat crayon. On salt, no less.

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      Your username is an apt description of this fella.

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      Meat crayon jerky.

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    There is a radical song about a guy who is dying of a desparato lifestyle and he says to his lover she can have his Vincent to ride… I always thought it was a car. Now I get it.

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      1952 Vincent Black Lightning, Richard Thompson

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    Rollie Free rolling free. What’s it like not having an amygdala Rollie?

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