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- From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
- Subject: Re: That T2 motorcycle jump... Not real, just magic
- Message-ID: <viking.727863304@vincent2.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <C18BvG.F3v@inform.co.nz> <1993Jan22.163808.8887@znext.cts.com> <1993Jan22.211908.18333@news.columbia.edu> <C1BIn8.A8K@javelin.sim.es.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 08:15:04 GMT
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- blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers) writes:
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- >Another trick: in the scenes where John Conner was being chased, he was
- >not riding the XR-80. There was a fancy motion rig (perhaps the "cage"
- >that the article Alex quoted was thinking of) fastened to the bike, and
- >the kid just sat there while a crew moved the bike from side to side
- >while the whole rig drove down the LA River. If they'd shown the XR's
- >lower half, you'd have seen the support mechanism.
-
- I didn't need to know this -- I figured it was fake when I had
- to take off my shoes to count the number of times he upshifted. Total
- number of downshifts? Zero. The two-stroke soundtrack was confirmation.
-
- >PS, Arnie really did shoot all those cops in the leg, I heard it on the
- >net.
-
- You heard that too?
-
- < 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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