James Ellison save of the century ( race footage no spoiler tho)

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  1. blade1980

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  2. ColinBR

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    The best 1 I've seen
     
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    Well its certainly up there with colin edwards low side save
     
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    Randy Mamola comes to mind.Great piece of recovery mr Ellison.
     
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  5. Carl

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    Soft hands, cool head?
     
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    Errrr wow!
     
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    I'd have been straight off. Awesome work keeping that upright.
     
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    Amazing!! These guys are very talented, but can't help think that was more sheer hanging on for dear life than skill!

    I've been thrown out of the seat and smashed visor on clocks before... There was no skill in saving it, just luck lol
     
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    brown pants anyone !!
     
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  10. billo01

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    There was a similar one in the Laguna AMA Sportbike practice session recently during the WSBK weekend with JD Beach rodeoing on an R6. He smashed the screen with his head then went up the road hanging off the side and managed to get back on.
     
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    Are you forgetting this one

     
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  13. glynn

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    Was a great save. The guys on eurosport thought so too.
     
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    Yup fantastic save and very randy ish .What I noticed was the upper body strength from feet on the ground to raising the full weight of himself by basically using his arm strength. Also no spoiler but top marks for Shakey even attempting to race after walking to the bike on to walking sticks .
     
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    He was clearly trying too hard to get his knee down , but ended up getting them both down at once!! Good work!!
     
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