GoPro Mountain Bike Backflip Is a Downhill Thrill

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Sam Laird
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GoPro Mountain Bike Backflip Is a Downhill Thrill

Super-extreme freestyle mountain biking looks like a thrill. But it's also dangerous as all get-out, and something most of us are too scared (or smart) to try. So here's a solution: Take a virtual ride down a precarious mountain slope and even hit a soaring backflip off a clip via GoPro.

Pro biker Kelly McGarry had a camera attached to him for his silver medal run at the 2013 Red Bull Rampage competition in Utah. The resulting video just hit YouTube and is embedded above. It's stunning.

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But McGarry's GoPro footage isn't the only sweet Internet moment the Red Bull Rampage produced. Last week we brought you footage of Cam Zink's world record 78-foot downhill backflip.

And if all this doesn't satisfy your craving for vicarious adrenaline, we've got you covered right here:

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