Is this really possible?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQm5BnhTBEQ
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/two-wheel-change-drive-2014-4
QuoteHere's An Insane Video Of People Changing Tires While Driving On Only Two Wheels
Paul Szoldra Today at 9:19 AM 5
Hagwalah driving
There's no need to pull over to swap tires when you can just pop up on two wheels and keep on moving.
Well, at least in this instance. A video posted to YouTube appears to show a Toyota FJ Cruiser lifted on two wheels — which is only the beginning — as it gets considerably more insane after five people hop out of the car and start changing the tires.
This illegal sport, if it can be called that, is apparently referred to as hagwalah in Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries, and this latest video is just one of many we've seen.
This could be the most amazing or dumbest thing you see today. Watch and decide:
How does the car manage to stay on two wheels that long? :wacko:
James Bond could do it.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 23, 2014, 02:27:40 AM
How does the car manage to stay on two wheels that long? :wacko:
The choice of car is important.
Also roads in SA are very very smooth.
I'm wondering how the tires survive this. They aren't riding on the part of the tire designed to carry weight... let alone half the weight of an SUV plus a full load of passengers.
Meh, I'm not impressed. They're not really changing tires, they're just unbolting them and putting the same ones back on. That kind of misses the point of changing your tires.
Chuck Norris alone could manage that.
Quote from: DGuller on April 23, 2014, 08:58:24 AM
Meh, I'm not impressed.
As we discovered in an earlier thread, the average languishite doesn't know how to change tires at all.
Quote from: DGuller on April 23, 2014, 08:58:24 AM
Meh, I'm not impressed. They're not really changing tires, they're just unbolting them and putting the same ones back on. That kind of misses the point of changing your tires.
Yeah, I'm waiting for the video "Changing radio stations while driving," that will be something to see.
I look forward to F1 crews implementing this method.
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on April 23, 2014, 10:12:32 AM
Yeah, I'm waiting for the video "Changing radio stations while driving," that will be something to see.
I've seen videos that start with texting while driving, or the more classic feat, drinking while driving. Those are mostly PSAs and snuff films.
This is old. Those crazy fucks have been doing shit like this for many years. For some reason since a couple years ago when they started selling the FJC in the middle east, they have used them a lot for this.
What sucks is they don't show off the videos of when it does not go well. :mad:
Far more surprising that they can fit four people in the back seat.
Quote from: alfred russel on April 23, 2014, 10:03:40 AM
Quote from: DGuller on April 23, 2014, 08:58:24 AM
Meh, I'm not impressed.
As we discovered in an earlier thread, the average languishite doesn't know how to change tires at all.
pffft...easy peasy. Drive to dealership. Leave car. Come back an hour later. Fork over couple hundred bucks. Tires changed.
Quote from: alfred russel on April 23, 2014, 10:03:40 AM
Quote from: DGuller on April 23, 2014, 08:58:24 AM
Meh, I'm not impressed.
As we discovered in an earlier thread, the average languishite doesn't know how to change tires at all.
Yeah, what's weird is I've probably got more experience of changing car tyres than the majority of Languishites (the ones who drive too)
To be fair, it's not a particularly often-needed skill. The fact that I've had to swap tires on the fly four times within 10 years of driving is in and of itself pretty surprising, and probably a testament to how shitty the roads are in my county. Tire change #4 sucked tremendously, though- that was the time the tire blew with the car pointed downwards on a hill, the car slipping off the jack, and it ending up needing me, three Mexicans, and two jacks to get the job done. :angry:
Quote from: mongers on April 23, 2014, 05:23:38 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on April 23, 2014, 10:03:40 AM
Quote from: DGuller on April 23, 2014, 08:58:24 AM
Meh, I'm not impressed.
As we discovered in an earlier thread, the average languishite doesn't know how to change tires at all.
Yeah, what's weird is I've probably got more experience of changing car tyres than the majority of Languishites (the ones who drive too)
Rugged individualism or performer of tasks one doesn't need to do for oneself?