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.
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.
22 Comments
7EP6vuI@feddit.org · 54 pts · 144d
if you think "at least he wears a helmet" you are wrong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollie_Free#Biography
zakobjoa@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 144d
The fuck kind of Temu ass leather tears from wind at that speed.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 144d
I think he may have fallen down and torn them that way. Which only highlights how insane this is.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 144d
I dunno, that’s a super shiny rounded shower cap with a little bevel around it.
LordMayor@piefed.social · 8 pts · 144d
Falls in the shower are no joke. People die from that. Always wear a shower cap.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 144d
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.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 144d
Extraterrestrial Interviewer: And what might be a good representative example of the . . . “common Earth male”?
Me: *points*
PugJesus@piefed.social · 15 pts · 144d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollie_Free
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 144d
Imagine the road rash if he were to come off while trying to break the speed record...
SARGE@startrek.website · 15 pts · 144d
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 144d
Well it probably wouldn’t be his problem what with the being dead and all.
Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 144d
Rollie Free seems like a really apt name for this guy
mbp@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 144d
That fender must be hot as hell with a 10billion rpm tire under it, no?
Crazy fucker, Rollie.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 144d
It's not the tire that makes it hot, it's the sun on it before he slapped his massive balls there.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 144d
Glad he's not known as a meat crayon. On salt, no less.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 144d
Meat crayon jerky.
Headofthebored@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 144d
Your username is an apt description of this fella.
Cataphract@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 144d
"clothed" isn't really the word I would use, more like "stripped".
oporko@piefed.social · 7 pts · 144d
How was he able to stay balanced on the bike with his massive balls in the way?
humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 144d
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.
kalpol@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 144d
1952 Vincent Black Lightning, Richard Thompson
ulmpiglet@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 144d
His pecker touches that tire, it's getting yanked right off.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 144d
Rollie Free rolling free. What's it like not having an amygdala Rollie?