Video: Friday Fails #264

Mar 17, 2023
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 Watching this sitting in the emergency room after crashing my motorcycle on ice riding to work this morning. Not sure if it makes me feel better or worse. At least there's no video...
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 Watching this, sitting in my office on the trauma unit of a hospital, waiting for summer and bike season...
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 @jsnfschr: Brace yourself. Park season is coming.
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 misery enjoys company
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 @gilpinmtbq: True story. As long as I don't end up here, we're good. Ending up as a patient on a unit of people I know who have to help with things like going to the bathroom might be my single biggest fear.
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 Just got home from thr ER. Can barely walk, can't use my left arm.
Happy Saint Patrick's day!!!

Now, where did my luck of the Irish go? It's gotta be here somewhere...
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 @gilpinmtbq: meathead summer here we come!!!!
  • 14 0
 You know it's a good scorp when your spine rebounds and you ollie like a damn skateboard! @25 seconds in!
  • 15 0
 I was waiting for the guy from the Audi bike presentation!
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 Lots of his riding mates int the video though!
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 Why? Was there a spectatular crash involved, or what?
  • 8 0
 The rider laughing when he bounced off the tree! Haha... always great when the crash results in more embarrasment than injury!
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 @3.15 the way Scott jumped up and adjusted his shades in a nonchalant manner also made me chuckle.
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 @commental: maybe Scotty doesn’t know [that he’s hurt yet]
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 1:20 .... I don't know where this is, but if its a bike park they should take some notes on why Mt. Hood bike park in Oregon got shut down. Like it or not, those sign posts placed at that location are a lawsuit waiting to happen!
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 Concur - don't add MORE solid objects to hit when crashing. Damn
  • 8 0
 The dude at Windrock went hella deep. The trail scorpion caught on camera was epic tho
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 By laughing at and enjoying these fails, am I gravity shaming these people?
  • 5 0
 If you ain't crashing you ain't trying. BUT if you are always crashing maybe time to take a riding lesson or try to calibrate your send/pass ratio a bit
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 I try not to crash,I guess that doesn't count?
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 C'mon, send it ! ....WWwwoooowwww ! Big Grin
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 A lot of respect to the rider @1:15 with the massive case, manage to hold on and not go OTB, upper body workout paid off. Also rider at @22 secs had one of the worse scorpions I seen :/ freeze it at 24 secs and it looks completely nasty, i hope he is ok. Ride on everyone !!!
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 2:53... he dead
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 Yeah. That looked lethal.
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 I don't understand people who roll slowly off a drop and then crash head-first off the end. Do they not understand how gravity works?
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 The thumbnail this week is epic
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 High impact today. Not a pretty sight many of these. I hope they came out OK after the healing process.
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 Props to the big dude even getting out on a bike! And 2:22 with the pooch…daaaayyymmm that was a brutal impact. Hope everyone is up and at ‘‘em today.
  • 3 0
 Skyler's OK. I'm sure I've seen that one before.
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 Skyler should stick to Grounder
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 Bike - Skyler, 1 - 0.
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 @pinkknip: Pies 0 - 1 Skylar
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 Jesus these mountain bikes we ride are dangerous!
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 "ty kokot"...Big Grin finally some Slovak language Smile
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 ouch. this episode made me cringe more than most.
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 Landscape people...ALWAYS film in Landscape mode...not portrait..
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 YouTube shorts and other apps are all the rage in portrait unfortunately.
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 Second dude: nice and smooth off the awesome wooden bridge when - BAM! - snapped directly into harsh OTB - what actually happened though??
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 I think that is Angry M in Squamish and I have no idea how that could happen. It is a very benign bridge to get over the climb trail.
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 When you go off of a drop at slow speed, the front wheel drops off the lip while the rear wheel is still on flat ground.

In effect, the lip of the drop has now become a triangular obstacle in front of the rear wheel.

Since the front wheel is in free fall and the rear wheel now meets resistance, bike and rider rotate forward.

When the rotation is even faster than in this clip (and in some clips it is beyond belief how fast the rider goes ass over tea kettle), the rider is likely dragging their rear brake which compounds the problem.

The rider in this clip should have moved forward slightly and then shifted weight rearward as the front wheel left the lip. This suspends the front tire momentarily so that the rear tire encounters less resistance. As rider speed increases, less and less weight shift is necessary to momentarily suspend the front wheel. At high speeds, you won't need any weight shift.
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 @JXN1: Not sure which clip you are watching (maybe the first one?), but there is no drop and no lip in the 0:11 clip. Roll down ramp, smooth transition to ground, invisible trail gnome flip.
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 @ShawMac: Yep, meant the first clip. In the second clip, dude was dragging his brakes down the steep roll and encountered the baby head rocks at the bottom that are likely dusty and glass off. The front tire slides on these rocks then gets immediate traction on the dirt just past them. The riders full weight goes forward (you can see his heels come up meaning there is no weight on his pedals / rear wheel) and he packs into the bars. You can hear his fork fully compress and then see his front wheel turn until it is perpendicular to his direction of travel. This is the best moment of traction my man will ever get from a tire in his life! The jacknifed front wheel stops immediately and the whole shabangabang flips end over end like a goddam cartoon.
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 Watched it frame by frame and I figured it out: he's a vampire-kin.
As soon as he passed into a patch of sunlight he wrecked.
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 I believe I see some rocky matter padding out the end. He is not actively riding and the broken contour caught him off guard. I rewatched it a number of times cause it is amazing the random shit that catches us. Or it was just a trail gnome lying there.
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 Kinda sounds like something snaps right before his weight goes forward and his wheel turns, looking at his feet I think the crank might have snapped
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 what the hell happened with my boy's wheel at 16 seconds?
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 To me it looks (and sounds) like something breaks on his bike right before all his weight goes forward sending his wheel off like that. Possibly cranks?
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 Was wondering the same! Did it get caught in a rut at the bottom of the bridge?
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 Why do so many people go over the bars after landing a jump? They've already completed the difficult bit. Are they jamming the front brake on when landing?
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 I've learned that if you wear a backpack your chance of wrecking goes up 100%
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 Lots of scorpions this week
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 Thanks bud, but I think I'll just go for a walk today.
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 Send it!
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 Yea
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 1:59, my man had light speed reflexes to grab his pivot
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 0:57 doin the porky pig, just needs the thats all folks at the end
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 "Oh yeah!" Skyler said when asked if he was all good.
*adjusting glasses to figure out where the hell I am*
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 In the opening crash, it looks as if he was being chased down the trail by a Tribble??
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 1:14 - "Parts, line one please! Parts, please pick up line one!"
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 Guy at 1:58: "Clavicality!"
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 So many invisible trail gnomes kicking our front wheels...
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 I like 3:12 his buddies say "Send it!" and he casually replies "no"
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 Hell yeah Skylar!!!
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 Best scorpion EVER! Perfecto!
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 The gnarliness!
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 (biker crashes)
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 Wow, a talking dog!
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 00:30 bye bye frame
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 "Oh (censored)!!"
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 I'm not your buddy, guy.







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