How extreme is your life? Take the test

What do you have for breakfast? Do you know what do the letters in BASE jumping stand for? And when did you last go skydiving? Find out if you’re GoPro or go slow with our high-octane quiz

A friend asks if you’d like to go for a bike ride at the weekend. Do you …

Accept, but suggest upgrading to a car ride?

Accept and propose a nice leisurely 60km?

Tell them how you built all four of your bikes until they remember that, actually, they already have plans?

What is a carabiner?

A crab-flavoured cordial.

Something you use to connect ropes and harnesses.

Something you use as a nosering.

What would be a typical breakfast for you on a weekday?

A choc ice.

Half a wholemeal bagel with peanut butter.

Fourteen raw egg whites.

Where are your metal pins?

In my pin cushion.

In my collarbone.

Hang on, I’ll just go and get the x-rays…

How do you get to work every morning?

Segway, car, Segway, train, Segway, lift, Segway, desk.

A quick triathlon.

Wingsuit.

What did you do with your children during the summer holidays?

Cinema, Minecraft, board games, a bit of everything really.

Camping, swimming, Pokemon Go.

Left them naked in a forest with a knife.

You agree to run a charity marathon with some of your colleagues. How do you prepare for the race?

Hire a bear suit, show it round the office laughing, then pay some kid to put it on and run in your place.

Controlled diet, 10km daily run, building up the distance as the race approaches.

Stockpile clean urine samples.

What does the acronym Base jumping stand for?

Best Attempted by Someone Else

Building Antenna Span Earth

Bugger All Safety Equipment

How often do you go skydiving?

About as often as I go snowboarding.

Most weekends.

I’m skydiving right now.

What do you use a GoPro for?

Oh, so many things, I lose count. I don’t know how I ever lived without whatever it is. It’s a camera, right?

Recording mountain bike routes and studying other people’s technique.

So strangers can watch me nearly dying on YouTube.

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