Video: Friday Fails #97

Dec 20, 2019
by Pinkbike Originals  


This week's mountain bike version on the Darwin Awards.





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129 Comments
  • 124 1
 ***PLEASE FALL IN THE RIVER*** - face plant, good enough!

Realize I am a terrible person.
  • 15 0
 Exact same reaction haha.
  • 20 0
 half the fun is trying to guess the fail...
  • 2 0
 no doubt. what happened to that guy, it's like he was shot by a rifle the way he went down. couldn't figure it out. vine grab his brake lever or something?
  • 1 0
 @jamesbrant: Looked like there was a little square edged ledge that you had to get the front up quickly for... but don't think he timed it well. Kinda also looked like his back wheel hit another little ledge at the same time which I think is what stopped his bike so abruptly and sent him down so hard and quick.

But ya, I was confused at first...
  • 6 2
 Man that guy went down quicker than a $10 hooker
  • 1 0
 100% lol
  • 1 0
 I felt that one, proper winded.
  • 78 0
 DAMN'IT KAYDEN!
  • 7 0
 Immediately scrolled to post this HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
  • 12 0
 I like to think that Kayden was borrowing his bike for that clip.
  • 7 0
 kayden dun messed up the landin!
  • 1 0
 Yup
  • 1 0
 @trippingreen: I was a little disappointed when you couldn't hear her laughing in his gopro angle (very last shot of video)
  • 63 0
 Morning coffee, friday fails.. Today is gonna be a good one. Happy Holidays you beautiful beautiful people !
  • 41 1
 Cheers to the girlfriend laughing at the guy who wipes and rolls in the scree field. She's clearly seen him take a beating before. My wife would be freaking if I wrecked like that in front of her.
  • 10 0
 The conversation prior to this:
Dude: I totally got this.
GF: Are you sure? I don't think this is a good idea.
Dude: Babe, I toootally got this. Just hold the camera. . .
  • 7 0
 My dude walks it off like a champ tho
  • 8 0
 Guy was pretty close to pulling it out. That was an awesome gap.
  • 2 0
 @NorCalNomad: Pretty sure that's the gap at the parking lot of Bootleg Canyon.
  • 5 0
 @whwv: You know it's a bad idea to hit a gap that's next to a parking lot. It's that close for a reason.
  • 3 2
 He hardly ‘wrecks’, he skids and rolls off his bike. Looks a lot like one of those fun crashes that makes you laugh at yourself.
  • 2 0
 @whwv: You are correct. Bender sender.
  • 27 0
 Every single time I watch FridayFails, it triggers the exact same existential crisis where I'm questioning all of my life choices. Really, this is what I do? Flirt with disaster on my overpriced stupid bike out in the woods?
  • 6 0
 I usually only ride on both of my days off and absolutely will not watch Friday fails until I'm done riding for the weekend.
  • 28 0
 Whoa....whooooooa
  • 3 0
 that was the best reaction
  • 4 0
 Almost equal surprise that he made the first feature and expected the fail at the second.
  • 23 1
 Alot of these could have been avoided if the people stayed cleared off the whole "mountain biking", thing....
  • 13 0
 Yeah but then what would we have to watch on Friday?
  • 24 0
 @ssteve:
Russian dashcams.
  • 4 0
 @Chris97a: You, good sir, just made my day with this comment Big Grin
  • 1 0
 It wouldn't be any fun if you couldn't get hurt doing it Wink
  • 4 0
 ....but for some reason lots of people are sold on the idea that dragging as many people as possible into the sport is a great idea.
  • 1 0
 @Chris97a: Haaa haha .. job tvoju mat, blyat, suka blyat, ni huja [yob tvoyu mat, blyat, suka blyat, ny hooya, I guess?]

(contemporary essential russian)
  • 1 0
 @Chris97a: Yeah but that's kinda an everyday thing..
  • 10 0
 I hope PB will post a "best of 2019 FF" video, maybe with some slo-mo scenes for us tech idiots who can't slow it down ourselves
  • 7 0
 Why set your sights so low? It's 2019, I'm holding out for best fails of the decade.
  • 9 0
 If nothing else, I'm honestly impressed with the amount of people getting out there and trying this stuff even if this time was a fail. Good for the people of Friday fails for committing and going for it!
  • 10 0
 I'm learning how to say "Oh s@#t!" in so many languages watching these!
  • 2 0
 That and "are you okay"?
  • 8 0
 Has the guy at 2:00 been saving that clip since the 90's? Those bars!
  • 8 0
 Friday Fails: Front-brake death-grip edition.
  • 6 0
 2:49 is great, like the bike gives up with a farting noise and dumps the rider.
  • 2 0
 Silent by deadly!
  • 6 0
 My man just absolutely sent that road gap and his girlfriend is not impressed
  • 3 0
 The wild cackle tells me that relationship will probably last.
  • 1 0
 @dbarnes6891: definitely not the first time she's seen this
  • 7 0
 Damnit Kayden
  • 2 0
 Nasty as usual. (I am still wondering why I keep on looking a it, while I continuously try to convince me everything will go well when I am on my bike)
Seth's bike hacks fail in latest video deserves to end here.
  • 3 0
 so much inexperience on jumps!! and what are ya doin sending your kids down jump trails when they don't even know which brake is the front or back. deadly!!
  • 5 4
 I watch these weekly. The question, or maybe just realization, is increasing clear.

Modern day MTB is just, dunno, riding down mellow hill at super slow speeds, barely turning, mostly skidding, and/or 'shredders' with zero clue on how to get a front wheel higher than the back.

Y'all need to take up badminton
  • 2 0
 Easy, Your gonna piss off all the gapers
  • 1 0
 @getsomesy: Wtf is a gaper when it’s at home?
  • 3 0
 @tobiusmaximum: a gaper (noun):- a novice or beginner to an extreme sport. Identified by the ‘gaping’ gap of their forehead exposed due to their poorly fitting safety helmet.
  • 5 0
 Is the dog okay?
  • 2 0
 This week's lesson: wear a full face helmet near a camera. +10 for the great form crotch-trap endo at 2:34 and the YEAUUH! crowd reaction.
  • 3 0
 0:49 dude went down like a sack of potatoes! Felt bad for laughing but had me dying. Hopeful he's not concussed...
  • 2 0
 That looks like a nice place... for smashing your face.
  • 1 0
 how???? how did they fall?? did I miss the dude hiding in the river, jumping out and and grabbing his front wheel?
  • 3 0
 2:29 - just a little more rotation and he would have landed the unintentional front flip!
  • 4 0
 He had it, if it wasn't for that stupid stick!
  • 1 0
 Apparently this was Faceplant Friday. That wreck by the river at 0:50 and the jump to faceplant at 1:33, amongst the other faceplants in the video compilation just looked aweful.
  • 1 0
 How is it that NO ONE pulls up on the jumps? Everyone goes OTB. I always thought it was human/2nd nature to pull up and absolutely no one grasps that. I’m completely flabbergasted.
  • 1 0
 Ad should be like: Full Face Friday! Now 50% off your next full face purchase to prevent you from face planting into delirium.
  • 3 1
 1:59 minute bar width. No complaints that the wide bars are causing shoulder pain.
  • 4 0
 Dirt Roadie strikes again!
  • 3 4
 Something tells me it wasn’t his first time... and not the last time either. I bet the conclusion was “I don’t know what happened”.
  • 3 0
 For a second it looked like a clip from the late 90's
  • 2 0
 My favourite clip from this week. Now remember kids, always lock your arms and legs out completely when going downhill.
  • 3 0
 0:43, creepy ass laugh had me about shut it down!
  • 3 0
 :35s reason #467 to wear a full face helmet.
  • 3 0
 And not bring your dog on the trails with you.
  • 1 0
 "my half shell is so enduro". Darwin was right..
  • 2 0
 "Damit Kayden that wont be good enough to get you on Friday fails" says Josh from last week.
  • 3 0
 I smell a concussion at 0:35
  • 3 0
 Can anyone confirm, is that Lunch Lady at 00:19?
  • 1 0
 Yeah, looks like lunchlady, you can see the rope between cat's paw and the access road at the end.
  • 1 0
 I've never seen a Friday Fails without a Whistler Bike Park trail in it!!! i'd take a dollar per crash which happens on WBP every summer season! i'd be freaking RICH
  • 1 0
 The crash at 1:40 is Whistler, no?
  • 1 0
 @emarquar: the kid dropping.... YESS
  • 1 0
 riders are somehow making mistakes.. Their friends laying their bikes right next to jumps waiting for you to be impaled in the handlebar is way worst imo...
  • 1 0
 I feel sorry for the dog at .37 poor dog gets hurt because his master is a Joey.
  • 2 0
 0:52 compulsive sound made after surely getting a concussion
  • 5 0
 0:58 compulsive sound of a dolphin getting a concussion
  • 1 0
 @ssteve: haha!
  • 1 0
 @ssteve: oh my god you are amazing
  • 1 0
 Really want to see the bike after the crash at 1:59. Something definitely broke..
  • 2 0
 0:36 prolly shoulda scoped that landing first.
  • 2 0
 A whole lot of festive pain right there.
  • 1 0
 2:32...not sure trampolines are necessary features. But they're going to be, better get your rotation on.
  • 1 0
 0:59, best friday fail friend I've seen, running to help to second his friend goes down
  • 2 0
 What all of us want our buddies to do, and none of us actually do.
  • 2 0
 man, :43 that is a sinister f*cking laugh. serial killer in the making.
  • 1 0
 The lack of full face helmets in this video scares me. Protect your face and teeth kids.
  • 2 0
 Can you spot the road biker? lol
  • 1 0
 Bar ends, 120 mm stem.
  • 1 0
 The South American and Eastern European ones are always the best, they just fucking go for it safety be damned.
  • 1 0
 0:43, 2:26 - why can't I remember to *never* give the camera to my little sister?!?!
  • 1 0
 Pretty sure the 0:49 mark is "What the Chuck" on Back 40 in Arkansas. It's sketchier than it looks, but damn!
  • 1 0
 I fail. I ride. I fail again!
  • 1 0
 Yellow jerseys flip so much better.... WOW!
  • 1 0
 This week's lesson: wear a full face helmet near a camera.
  • 1 0
 It's always that second guy, isn't it...
  • 1 0
 1:26 yo dawg I heard you liked first person videos
  • 1 0
 1:59: "try downcountry they said, you've already got the bike, they said."
  • 2 0
 Oak Mountain!
  • 1 0
 1:20 mark? I thought that looked like the beginning of Lightning.
More trails need features like that at the start with a sign that says "if you can't clear this feature, the rest of this trail is over your head".
  • 1 0
 Oak Mountain is a fine park. I'd move to Birmingham just to be near it.
  • 2 0
 @JohanG: I just moved to Huntsville and everyone keeps telling me it's amazing. To be fair I've been impressed with Monte Sano. I've never lived near this type of terrain. It's breaking my fat ass in.
  • 1 0
 Melancholy fails this week. Reminds me of Josh....
  • 1 0
 The biggest fails are the piss poor camera work
  • 1 0
 2.38 is the winner hahaha
  • 1 0
 For sure. Did you see his brother - crashed earlier - to the right ?
  • 2 0
 @pinkknip: haha nahh I didn't
  • 1 0
 I love this themed fails... today is face plant special
  • 1 0
 Eastern European accent comes out and I know it’s about to get good.
  • 1 0
 DAMNIT CAYDEN! how dare you crash!!! What was that guy’s deal?
  • 1 0
 Maybe it was cameraman's bicycle Maybe cameraman pays cayden's medical bills Maybe cameraman is some sort of guardian and told Cayden to not be reckless Maybe Cayden does this all the time but promised this time it would be different Just off the top of my head.
  • 1 0
 2:24 where is that
  • 3 1
 looks like the parking lot road gap at bootleg canyon. also, dude needs to dump his chick. she laughin at his ass like she hates him. oh nice we even get on board footy at the end! bonus!
  • 1 0
 Always a good time!
  • 1 0
 Al the gear, no idea.
  • 1 2
 Can someone tell me how to submit a video for this?
  • 1 0
 I'm guessing here: m.pinkbike.com/video/uploadfiles under the crashes tab?
  • 1 0
 @mountainsofsussex: aaah, that makes sense. Thank you!
  • 1 0
 @rallyimprezive: reply if you get featured! Good luck
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