454496 71 Posted October 11, 2012 Report Share Posted October 11, 2012 A little painful to watch, http://news.ninemsn....atic-bike-crash Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MT Predator 2,294 Posted October 11, 2012 Report Share Posted October 11, 2012 At least he made it across the canyon. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RobRez 1,895 Posted October 11, 2012 Report Share Posted October 11, 2012 Nature is Really tryin to weed this one out.......stubborn Bastard! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Live2Ride 12 Posted October 12, 2012 Report Share Posted October 12, 2012 Sounds like you can hear at least 2 bones breaking on impact. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
storm6490 2,768 Posted October 12, 2012 Report Share Posted October 12, 2012 Really nice LZ. I dealt with stupid people in freestyle skiing and snowboarding for years before they changed their procedure for building jumps and landings. My general rule is that the landing MUST be three times greater, or more than the launch. Learned this as a kid from ski jumping. He overshot the jump and ditched his bike as you should. The only problem was that the landing had a very short sweet spot. If the landing zone was three times as big as it was, the guy would have walked away from a standard bail out. The common lingo for a shit jump is "Fat to Flat" If you build a good jump, even if you have a bad landing, your weight will be distributed over a large area when landing and not in one spot on a flat surface. Surprized that this was a red bull event. They usually know how to build ramps and landings..... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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