Video: Friday Fails #169

 Unleash your inner Peter Pan

 @oldfaith: What an appropriate way to describe half the people riding the Jackass loop in Truckee

 "Hey Dad, can we make a small jump in the backyard..."

 Lord of the Flies.

 this dude should be on Saturday Saves or sunny send, definitely not a fail section

 trunnion mounted shocks: apparently more than just marketing bs!

 The Rockshox Product Dev and FA team will count it as a failure. They'll want to understand what happened tout suite.

 I liked seeing the mechanical aftermath of this. I hope more clips show the mechanical aftermath in the future. The medical aftermath, hard no on seeing that.

 ....he was completely ready to ride away from that like it was no big deal. Man has ankles of steel

 @SATN-XC: @SATN-XC: looked like rubbery boy ankles to me

 @VtVolk: I think the shock broke, because the rocker broke.

 get this man a super monster t

 Opening sequence should be the opening for every FF LOL.

 "Bro have you heard about gravel bikes? It's totally hot right now!"
- Two guys who haven't sat on a bike since they were 14, talking in a Seattle taproom a week before "the incident".

 @number44: "Hold my dangle mug and watch this!"

 @klazzymoto: I agree!

 @VtVolk: My dangle mug & I feel attacked.

 Saw synchro cyclecross bikes, full-lycra and fenders. Felt a little bit good when he crashed (but wasn't hurt). I'm a bad person.

 @plyawn: I once wrecked on my gravel bike passing a jogger. Hopped off the sidewalk connecter I was on and when I went to hop back on the pavement I did not get the 2 inches of air I needed to clear the elevation change back up. Barrel rolled over the sidewalk to the grass on the other side, unclipping in flight, and wound up laughing my ass off in the grass. The jogger was a bit freaked out as this unfolded in front of him.

 Yeah, maybe leave jumping on gravel bikes to Yoann and Akrigg.

 Wheels on the ground Roadies, wheels on the ground!!!!!

 @VtVolk: cheers for introducing me to the $50 Dangle Mug ridiculousness

 @frorider2: Wait till you see the $140 titanium DangleBong

 Opening sequence deserves a slomo replay of his face.

 Had my worst crash in a year on Friday. Nothing too serious, but could have been a collarbone with a little less luck. This comment was basically all I could think on the way back to the car.

 Yeah, they should just go ahead and spray paint "Friday Fails" on that ramp as there will be more videos from that yard

 needs more fireworks in the mix

 Who didn’t grow up with a sketchy ramp in the back yard? Me and the guys were quite proud of what we built. Photo evidence of takeoff ramp somewhere on PB

 @klazzymoto: Perhaps the video isn't doing your craftsmanship justice. When viewed from the comfort of my iPhone, the setup conjures images of a BMX track designed by an Indiana Jones villain. Growing up in a household of lawn care and landscaping fanatics, backyard jumps were not an option, and I opted for riding my BMX off of retaining walls at the local office park.

 @rodeostu: I can relate. My mother is known for her pristine yard. I had the privilege of growing up an a farm with enough area “out back” to do some digging. That being said I never got a real chance to ride off retaining walls at the local office park.

 I honed my skills on a pallet propped against an empty oil drum, with special “superslippywhenwet” ply as the launch surface. Damn, thinking back, snapped a pair of handlebars schralping that huck*.
*these terms made no sense in ‘78.

 @rockhopper70: How the terms have changed. I wasn’t alive in ‘78 but 2009 we definitely weren’t schralping anything around here.

 I love how after all that wood work they just gave up on making an actual landing out of dirt, a knee high pile should do the trick.

 hahah... cracked me up too.

 Sounds like the dude was disappointed of himself haha

 Please explain this.

 @iamamodel: swearing in quebecois 101: tabarnak, crisse (from Christ), sacrement and, finally, calice. All these words have a religious origin (catholic). Kind of our F words.

 @francoiscorriveau: That's crazy. We just use F and C words.

Tabernacle? Chalice. That's crazy. Goes to show how sacred such things are.

 RIP Bailey

 @bikeskibikeski: I saw that step down clip and just got so bummed. We have no idea what we just lost.

 @bikeskibikeski: back story? not familiar

 RIP Bailey Mtn...

 I dunno, to summarize, I would call this the "why did you and the missus decide to never have kids edtion"? Seemed to be more nad imprints on top tubes than normal.

 @SATN-XC: It was a grassroots-type DH park that was open year round north of Asheville, NC. they just closed this spring. ...something-something "I want to spend time with my family" blah blah blah.. was the reason, I believe. They were super nice folks, so whatever they chose to do, I support. but it is sad they are gone.

 @SATN-XC: Family with a teen son bought a parcel of land north of Asheville on a ridge after inspring trips to Crankworx. Got consultation on how to build the bike park, the facilities and to sell land/home package lots on the mountain as a bike in/out community.
Ran into massive hurdles to get buildings, septic and water all on the super steep slopes and control runoff for nearby trout stream.
Intermediate & advanced trails only.
Layout (combo of the parking situation, the dead end nature of the shuttle & the heavy burden of maintaining the park and equipment on such a steep pitch) capped the number of riders per day so they could only sell maybe 60 tickets daily.
The dad still had a full time, good paying job on top of running the park sometimes 3 days a week.
Couldn't sell the lots without the infrastructure so they made it work for as long as they could because they fell in love with DH, the people and the scene, but had to stop hemmoraghing money and move on.

It's gonna get turned into a couple mega-million dollar viewshed lots.

 so that was a bell - I thought I was hearing things!

 ...I think there is a kind of innocence in watching this stuff and not knowing the injury outcome. Would feel more like a snuff film if we knew how bad some of these crashes ended up being. I would rather not know and keep enjoying FF

 @SATN-XC: These are user summitted correct? If that's the case I'd have to assume that most don't end in very serious injury.

 @sino428: I don't know....but you are probably correct.

 I've seen someone explode their ankle on a curb in parking lot just trying to dismount a bike. Cousin exploded her face walking up a slick rock at a swimming hole. I snapped my ACL coming to stop at a National. Apologies for what happened to your friend. I came to the conclusion decades ago that the most dangerous thing we can do is to stay home.

 @blowmyfuse: like I always say, “Safety top 10. If it were first, we wouldn’t be doing this. “

 @blowmyfuse: True. Friend's uncle just fell flat on his face in front of his house while riding a razor scooter on the sidewalk. Died from the head injuries. Another one this spring was sedentary and had a heart attack. Another killed herself after being depressed with too much time on instagram. Another drank herself to death during this isolation/covid. Riding definitely isn't worth refraining from.

 My overall picture is that I can "sorta" watch the Friday Fails and have a chuckle, but it's always from the "walks away" viewpoint. I doubt we see many permanently crippling injuries on here to somber things up, but they are there.

Just wanted to try to cheer @woofer2609 up and give a "don't die from fear of having lived" perspective. Not wanting to change how he views things, b/c obviously his filter is shaped by his friends injury.

Just encouraging people to stay positive about the things worth enjoying since anything can bring us to halt, but don't pass up fun because of it.

And bikes are definitely fun.

 About 10 years ago I lost 4 teeth in an OTB to rocks. I count myself very fortunate to have video of it and be able to show it to people. I "enjoy" Friday Fails as entertainment, and most of the crashes look like standard issue MTB life. But those rag doll crashes that come up every other week or so are a bit jarring.

 need more of this for sure

 That's if they can find the iPhone I assume was mounted on his stem so they can pay for it.

 I expected the fail to be the roll-in ramp collapsing; that shit looked way too sketchy!

 I was almost ashamed of myself for the number of times I hit the zero on my keyboard. Almost.

 which is more embarrasing, when tubby middle age dads made tubby middle age dad noises or when they make little girl noises? asking for a friend.

 @freestyIAM: The noise I don't want to make is the wind-knocked-out-of-you uhhhhhhh-uhhh.

 It's the loosening of the bowels I don't want to accidentally capture on film.

 @iamamodel: oh is that what they are all talking about?

 @vapidoscar: Nah, just me. But, I tend to bring the conversation into the gutter.

 Less @dolores
More @mulva

 @blowmyfuse: Oh... you.

 The first clip with the road gap fail was an ebike?

 Naw it’s cuz ebikers have no friends so nobody around to film them.
Kidding!

 Given that 80% of fails consist of some feature with airtime, i simply think that most ebikers stay away from jumps or generally don't stretch their comfort zone as far (why they're on an ebike in the first place).

 @SickEdit: Yeah, no. You should ride with our crew in Santa Cruz!

 Kid totally went for it! I think the bike was simply too big/heavy for him. He yanked on the bars but the bike was having none of it and dropped like a lead weight. Hopefully he goes back in a few months and hits it again

 The kid that fell down the bank had me wondering

 That was me. I cracked that helmet. Nothing but a concussion. 5 stars for the Bell Super 3R.

 @mediocrityontwowheels: I thought the same thing when I first saw it, got lucky there dude. Looks like you got your head slightly to the side as you went over.

 @mediocrityontwowheels: Dang, I watched that crash a couple times. Looks, and even sounds, like you broke your neck. Lucky escape, man!

 Was thinking the same thing.

Also the "Why I wear a FF helmet edition"