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...
@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.
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!
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
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 !!!
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.
@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.
@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.
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.
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?
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?
Happy Saint Patrick's day!!!
Now, where did my luck of the Irish go? It's gotta be here somewhere...
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.
As soon as he passed into a patch of sunlight he wrecked.
*adjusting glasses to figure out where the hell I am*