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- From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
- Subject: Re: That T2 motorcycle jump... Not real, just magic
- Message-ID: <viking.727599177@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <C15t3M.4Fy@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 06:52:57 GMT
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- weaver@castor.cs.uga.edu (Mike Weaver) writes:
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- >|> No, it was real. What was bullshit is him riding away from it.
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- >No they didn't trash the bike in the movie. The jump was indeed bullshit.
- >They had guy wires on the bike to guide it gently to the ground. They then
- >digitally edited the frames and wiped out the wires. Just another example
- >of the use of computers in mainstream movies.
-
- That's not what I read in rec.moto when the movie first came out.
- If you can't trust the net for facts, what can you... Oh. Sorry.
-
- Well, anyway the bike did make the jump. Just very slowly. How
- did they get the suspension to compress that much when they showed the
- landing, though, not to mention the sparks and the like?
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- < Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu viking@iastate.edu >
- < ISU only censors what I read, not what I say. Don't blame them. >
- < USENET: Post to exotic, distant machines. Meet exciting, >
- < unusual people. And flame them. >
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