Decisions, Decisions...?500?

[Fawbish]

Right, might add a poll if I get enough suggestions.


Basically, I'm doing a few things this year.


In the last two weeks of June, I am hoping to bugger off and ride down to Italy and back over two weeks. Yussah. I'll be doing this no matter what tbh.



But. I have £500 in premium bonds. I wont be adding any more, and they've got fuck all chance of winning anything more than 50 quid within a year tbh.

So I'm gonna use them later on this year.


Now I has decision.





Do my first part of my AFF (Accelerated Freefall) Course (of which there are 8 parts) and go Skydiving, my first jump being from 18,000 feet...



or...



Go to Cartegena for four days trackday in Sunny Spain, hotel etc paid for...



Also, if you had £500 and wanted to "experience" something and really make it memorable, what would you do?

I'm open to ideas.


I could do the Skydiving for Charity, which is a bonus, or I could be selfish. Choices.


I'd like to hear some thoughts

I dont particularly want to use the money to buy a thing though if it sounds worth it...fill me with ideas BCF.
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[Seb]

Personally... I'd find the skydiving more memorable than a trackday, even in spain. Tough call though
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[Fawbish]

Aye, thats what I was thinking. Plus it will get me on the path to becoming a Skydiving Instructor.


But four days in Spain, thrashing the shit out of my bike...that would be fucking awesome.
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"Oh....it looks like Average Joe's is forfeiting the match!" - "Yeah, its a risky strategy but lets see if it pays off for 'em Cotton."

[Bendy]

Skydiving.

Cartagena wasn't 'all that' to my mind, and inevitably ended up costing lots more than the list price. The hassle:fun ratio was a bit off.

[Fawbish]

Aaah, ok. Some experience Thats good to know.

May I ask about the specifics of the hassle? I assume you mean bike transport etc?
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"Oh....it looks like Average Joe's is forfeiting the match!" - "Yeah, its a risky strategy but lets see if it pays off for 'em Cotton."

[D O G]

So the toss up is between a four days on the track (open pitlane?), plus about three days riding through Gay France to get there (or are you having the bike shipped?), over one 18,000ft skydive?

Whassat, about 1 1/2 min of freefall, then floating down for four mins or something??

I know which one I would choose.

Then again, I have never skydived, and my favourite thing in the world is to be on track.

Actually, my favorite thing in the world is to be on track at the Nurburgring. Do that instead, definitely do that. Do it.

Fuck Spain, hot, dusty and full of spicks. The French all smell of garlic too, you only have to be in France for around 2 hours on the way to the ring, then 2 hours through the rain in Belgium, then GERMANY!!! Two more hours and you are at the best place in the world.

Do it.

Might even come with you!

[chillpill]

withouht a doubt skydiving

the adrenaline rush would be amazing

[Bendy]

[mr-inteligent]

Do your AFF in Spain then hire a bike and find some nice roads.
Have you ever done skydiving before? or have you ever been on a track day?

[st3v3]

I'll be honest Nath, when I sell my bike a large amount of it will be going toward a skydive I plan to do in a month or 3. That's selling my bike to get a few seconds adrenaline rush jumping from a plane, but I can ride a bike anyday... My votes on this.
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[Polarbear]

The rush I get when I hit a corner too fast but get round it with just about everything grounding is a big enough adrenalin trip for me thank you very much.

But then I can't see a reason to jump out of a perfectly good aeroplane, only to find your parachute doesn't work and you have a couple of minutes to contemplate your own demise
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[Blue_SV650S]

[chrisjacks]

if your chute doesnt work you wont even have a couple of minutes

either way its ace id recomend it

[Fawbish]

Well i'd be doing something similar to what Bendy was describing if I did do it...its not sounding like the cleverest idea ever.


The skydiving is something I just think will be utter adrenaline, and believe it or not SV650, I want to do the base jumping wingsuit thing, and thats why I wanna become competent at Skydiving!

[Fawbish]

[Finglonga]

Skydiving,








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[Fawbish]

[Fawbish]

[The Shaggy D.A.]

Skydiving. Any monkey can ride a bike, but it takes balls to throw yourself out of a perfectly good plane.
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