Has anyone else had an adrenaline rush experience? - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

alamostation · #1 09-30-2010, 09:25 AM

32 years ago I had an adrenaline rush experience.

I was converting my Sunbeam Alpine from steel wheels to wire wheels, which involves changing out the wheel hubs. I did not have jack stands, but had bricks stacked on both sides of the front end to within an inch of body. I had a jack lifting the body about an inch above the bricks.

My father-in-law-at-the-time was under the car to hold the wrench on a bolt on the back side of brake rotor. He wiggled to get better leverage and kicked out the jack. The car fell to the bricks and my father-in-law wasn't in danger of being killed, but he was pretty squished, and he yelled like Hell.

I still don't how I did it, but I grabbed the front bumper and lifted the car so he could squirm out.

The wheels were off the front. The car weighed around 2100 pounds, and was front end heavy. I figure I lifted between 1000 and 1200 pounds. I know I would be hard pressed to lift 200 pounds today.

LandYaghtLover · #2 09-30-2010, 09:32 AM

Scary! But thats not an adrenaline rush experience. Skydiving, snow boarding, mountain bike racing, all provide that over and over. Even being on a roller coaster provides hours of spiked adrenaline levels.

What you describe is "Hysterical Strength".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysterical_strength

#3 09-30-2010, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by LandYaghtLover

Scary! But thats not an adrenaline rush experience. Skydiving, snow boarding, mountain bike racing, all provide that over and over. Even being on a roller coaster provides hours of spiked adrenaline levels.

What you describe is "Hysterical Strength".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysterical_strength

It doesn't count unless there is some real risk involved.

WVOtoGO · #4 09-30-2010, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by LandYaghtLover

Scary! But thats not an adrenaline rush experience. Skydiving, snow boarding, mountain bike racing, all provide that over and over. Even being on a roller coaster provides hours of spiked adrenaline levels.

What you describe is "Hysterical Strength".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysterical_strength

X2 on both replys.

As far as "adrenaline rushes" go...
That's what we do around here almost every day !!

They usually start right after we yell: "CLEAR !!" and end when we put the chocks back around the tires.

WVOtoGO · #5 09-30-2010, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by alamostation

32 years ago I had an adrenaline rush experience.

I was converting my Sunbeam Alpine from steel wheels to wire wheels, which involves changing out the wheel hubs. I did not have jack stands, but had bricks stacked on both sides of the front end to within an inch of body. I had a jack lifting the body about an inch above the bricks.

My father-in-law-at-the-time was under the car to hold the wrench on a bolt on the back side of brake rotor. He wiggled to get better leverage and kicked out the jack. The car fell to the bricks and my father-in-law wasn't in danger of being killed, but he was pretty squished, and he yelled like Hell.

I still don't how I did it, but I grabbed the front bumper and lifted the car so he could squirm out.

The wheels were off the front. The car weighed around 2100 pounds, and was front end heavy. I figure I lifted between 1000 and 1200 pounds. I know I would be hard pressed to lift 200 pounds today.

I’ve often wondered about these sort of events.
Did you experience any reactions afterward?
Sore or torn muscles? Back issues?

I’ve heard of these sort of events happening. I’ve always wondered about the actual mechanics of it all. I'm thinking that on average, the human body wasn’t designed to do this sort of thing, but obviously sometimes it can.
At what cost though (if any)?

E150GT · #6 09-30-2010, 10:39 AM

What about when your cruising in your car and you exit the highway and a biker from the access lane juts out in front of you and you slam on your brakes and he slams on his so hard the back end of his bike is sliding and you come uber close to nailing this idiot and then you hear screeching tires from behind you and you look back a car barely escapes from hitting you? Is that feeling of elevated heart pounding and supreme awareness of your surroundings for the entire rest of the drive home an adrenaline rush? If so then yes. If not, then no.

#7 09-30-2010, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by E150GT

What about when your cruising in your car and you exit the highway and a biker from the access lane juts out in front of you and you slam on your brakes and he slams on his so hard the back end of his bike is sliding and you come uber close to nailing this idiot and then you hear screeching tires from behind you and you look back a car barely escapes from hitting you? Is that feeling of elevated heart pounding and supreme awareness of your surroundings for the entire rest of the drive home an adrenaline rush? If so then yes. If not, then no.

Maybe if you're the one on the bike; in a car, not so much.

WVOtoGO · #8 09-30-2010, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by E150GT

What about when your cruising in your car and you exit the highway and a biker from the access lane juts out in front of you and you slam on your brakes and he slams on his so hard the back end of his bike is sliding and you come uber close to nailing this idiot and then you hear screeching tires from behind you and you look back a car barely escapes from hitting you? Is that feeling of elevated heart pounding and supreme awareness of your surroundings for the entire rest of the drive home an adrenaline rush? If so then yes. If not, then no.

Yep.
Ya gotta love those rushes that leave your legs all rubbery for twenty minutes.

& Good point Craig.

rocky raccoon · #9 09-30-2010, 02:52 PM

It took you 32 years to calm down enough to write it up?

davidmash · #10 09-30-2010, 07:09 PM

About 20 yrs ago I was driving from LA to Tucson. I was west of Phoenix on I-10 at night. Pitch black on a 2 lane doing about 70-75 or so. Something shoots out in front of me and I instinctively tried to avoid it. Car did a 360 from the fast lane to the right shoulder. Scared the living daylights out of me. Ended up separating the tread on one of the tires. That was fun.

elchivito · #11 09-30-2010, 08:09 PM

I've had lots of close calls over the years, but the one that stands out in my mind is blowing a front tire at 65mph in a Ford 14 passenger van...arguably one of the most roll-over prone vehicles in common use...loaded FULL with other people's children. My angels were watching me that day for sure, somehow we didn't roll but the adrenaline leftovers took forever to dissipate. Not only that, 90 miles later a back tire started thumping and had also formed a bubble and was ready to separate. Luckily I got off the road before it blew. Two brand new Bridgestone tires in less than 100 miles. What are the odds? I was in Phoenix and still had an hour and a half drive to get home, so off loaded the kids at a McDonalds with the chaperones, limped the van to Costco and used my school district credit card to pay for 5 new Michelins. They guys there thought I was nuts, until I told them what had happened.
My school district superintendent called me on the carpet for an unauthorized expense of almost 1800 dollars and I told her where she could put the receipts if she ever wanted me to take kids on any more trips on Bridgestone tires.

#12 09-30-2010, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by davidmash

About 20 yrs ago I was driving from LA to Tucson. I was west of Phoenix on I-10 at night. Pitch black on a 2 lane doing about 70-75 or so. Something shoots out in front of me and I instinctively tried to avoid it. Car did a 360 from the fast lane to the right shoulder. Scared the living daylights out of me. Ended up separating the tread on one of the tires. That was fun.

My scariest was some guy blowing through a stop sign in the middle of no-place and missing my bike by a couple of feet. We were both driving much too fast on a back road, I hit the brakes and he stomped on the gas, I barely missed his rear bumper with the brakes locked. I had to take a minute.

t walgamuth · #13 09-30-2010, 09:05 PM

I was in my 74 bmw bavaria driving to lunch with a client. A car shot out from my left between some stopped in traffic cars and would have t bonered me right in my door but my (future) autocross reflexes caused me to switch lanes really fast and avoided the knucklehead. At the next light I was shakey. Same thing happened on my 73 harley 350 once. And a couple of months ago here on PU campus I had a near miss. The latest did not provoke any adrenaline.

First autocross of the season usually gets adrenaline up....after that it is just pure fun...unless I make a bonehead move and ruin an otherwise excellent run.

TheDon · #14 09-30-2010, 09:47 PM

accidentally skiing down a double black in Vail and making it down alive!

Jim B. · #15 09-30-2010, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by alamostation

32 years ago I had an adrenaline rush experience.

I was converting my Sunbeam Alpine from steel wheels to wire wheels, which involves changing out the wheel hubs. I did not have jack stands, but had bricks stacked on both sides of the front end to within an inch of body. I had a jack lifting the body about an inch above the bricks.

My father-in-law-at-the-time was under the car to hold the wrench on a bolt on the back side of brake rotor. He wiggled to get better leverage and kicked out the jack. The car fell to the bricks and my father-in-law wasn't in danger of being killed, but he was pretty squished, and he yelled like Hell.

I still don't how I did it, but I grabbed the front bumper and lifted the car so he could squirm out.

The wheels were off the front. The car weighed around 2100 pounds, and was front end heavy. I figure I lifted between 1000 and 1200 pounds. I know I would be hard pressed to lift 200 pounds today.

An incident almost EXACTLY like this was depicted long ago in a 1955 film called "Wee Geordie" that I saw when it first came out when I was 8 yeazrs old.

I think the car was an old Austin, maybe an A40 .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIMVeBlePtk