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Bluffboy says: My mate cheated death and burned his eyebrows off looking down the barrel of a potato gun. Tell us about your brushes with the Grim Reaper through stupidity.

(, Thu 12 Feb 2009, 20:01)
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It's called brake fade. Too much braking on the way down would have caused your brakes to heat up, thus reducing their effectiveness. 10 minutes later, they'd cooled again.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_fade
(, Mon 16 Feb 2009, 21:15, Reply)

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