Motorcycle Race Through Porto is as Extreme as it Gets

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Who ordered the extreme tour of Porto?

Red Bull (h/t Digg) released some stunning video of the recent Extreme XL de Lagares, taking dirt bike stars around a confined and extremely treacherous course, using a part of town that certainly seems far more serene by comparison.

Ben Hemingway gives us all an idea of what it's like to embark on a short but grueling ride through these Portuguese streets, battling Andreas Lettenbichler who gets out to an early lead:

With incessant huffing and puffing coming over the speakers; photographers taking up half the road and stairs that provide exhausting obstacles, we have ourselves one of the most arduous jaunts around town we have seen.

Now this is just a taste, because Red Bull also released the following, covering the same course from different vantage points:

For the rest of us with suspect balance and athletic prowess issues, we will stick to tour groups that take a far less, well, extreme course around the city.

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