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Fabien
Barel Jumps from Heli
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It seems that some of the DH talent on the Kona Clarks Les Gets Factory team has thrown down a challenge to the Kona Clump team. Fabien Barel has successfully jumped his Dawg Primo out of a helicopter on the Reunion Islands. I don’t have an exact height of the jump, but I’m guessing it was ‘really high’. I have an email into Fabien to get his estimate and will let you know when I get an answer. Fabien’s report follows. Michael Geraci
FROM FABIEN:
Reunion Island is a paradise in the Pacific ocean. It’s essentially on a volcano called the “Piton de la Fournaise”. The idea of this trip was to do some heli VTT (VTT is French for MTB) instead of heliskiing. Our plan was to ride all the best places on the island where no one else has ridden - or even walked! We rode the Piton des Neiges (3300 meters altitude), the Trou de Fer (center of an old Volcano with waterfalls all around), and the centre of the Volcano call the Piton de la Fournaise. Each place was amazing, different and beautiful.
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The main idea of this project was to be the first person in the World to jump
from a helicopter with a bicycle. The helicopter was pretty small and
the bike could not fit inside unless it was dissassembled. So we had to
land on the Volcano, build the bike and take off with the bike outside
of the Helicopter. It hovered over the top of the Volcano and I
had to hang on outside with all the rotor wash that the machine was making. |
 The Reward |
No word on whether this was caught on Video
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