Dirt Bike Stunt
Fremont Street Experience, Las Vegas
May 15, 2008
Fremont Street Experience, Las Vegas
May 15, 2008
We like staying in the old downtown section of Las Vegas, usually at the Four Queens Hotel & Casino. They always treat us nice. Their service is always friendly, the rooms clean and the casino a lot of fun to be in. The nice thing about staying downtown is I feel comfortable walking to other downtown casinos under the cooling canopy of the Fremont Street Experience and watchful eye of security. You can't walk along the FSE without seeing one or more security personnel either walking or on bicycles and while you still need to use common sense, it's a nice feeling that they are there to help with any problems. Transients (street people) are common but are left to go about their business providing they don't bother others. Each morning of this trip I sat on the patio of the Krispykreme Doughnuts at Fitz Casino & Hotel (formerly called the Fitzgeralds). They offer free Wi-Fi for their customers so I was able to keep up a few of my online activities while enjoying a cup of coffee. It was a pleasant way to greet the day as well as do a little people watching and let me tell you, Las Vegas is a perfect place to people watch!
Friends arrived later the same day as our arrival. A couple of the girls and I decided to mosey on down to the Las Vegas Club near the end of the FSE. It's the only casino we saw this trip that still had the Beverly Hillbilly slot machines, one of my favourites from a few years back. There are three versions of these machines but the Las Vegas Club only has the Bubblin' Crude and The Clampett's Cash. Almost directly in from of the Las Vegas Club door was this huge metal mesh ball. I had seen it earlier and wondered what it was for. This time there was a crowd gathering and I could hear the noise of dirt bikes so I put two and two together. We got there just in time to see the warm up then watch as one bike entered the ball to do stunts. By the time this free show was over there were three riders inside the ball! The video of the three riders is a little over a minute long but well worth watching. Only in Las Vegas can you stumble upon such interesting and free entertainment!
Garden Gnome
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Incredible. I have seen pictures of the stunt, but the video really gives you the feeling of being there. Those guys are nuts. Can you imagine the crashes they have had?
ReplyDeleteIt was absolutely amazing to watch. Before each rider went into the ball for their warm-up they told a bit about them. One young lad was a third generation stuntman. I shudder to think about the crashes and I'm sure they have had a few!
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