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dishboy14
(Jul 14, 2009 at 15:23)
OMG.... that look so so so so painful!
ye he was a bit bummed about the whole bike in two pieces issue, but then saw the funny side of it when i showed him the photo 
fortunately he was unscathed, these guys know how to take a bail well!
fortunately he was unscathed, these guys know how to take a bail well!
Poor guy. Knows he is about to eat it to. Jason Phaelin(sp?) Did the same thing at the BMX worlds on the mini spine.
Haha im always conscience of it going, even before i saw this picture! haha 2 weeks of riding it and i have managed to crack the weld under the headtube 
well i dont wanna buy that frame.... haha sucks for the company now because there looking like shit but cool pod!!
well thats what you get for running unknown bike company frames i know lots of peopel which have snapped theres the company is starting to go bust they are jsut to light
nope but the company has already been mentioned in the above comments,they had "issues" with a batch of frames that had the down tube welded on the wrong way round!!
ooooo thats got too be one of the worst possible things that could happen to you in a competiotion... Great POD though.... props to the rider and the photographer.
so why couldnt yall put up a MTB snappage?tryin to make BMX look bad huh? Oh yeah i forgot this is a MTB site...
"i think i'll have tire for lunch today"
looks like he's going to take a big bite out of the wheel lol.
looks like he's going to take a big bite out of the wheel lol.
^^^uh, theres nothing wrong with bmx, its just that it just so happens that its a bmxer whos about to eat shit in this pic but there are plenty of mtb crashes too
uhh...immenseturmoil^^.. if this is a mtb website why are there
more bmx photos then mtb on the pinkbike??
more bmx photos then mtb on the pinkbike??
i am talkin about PODs here, i mean like, yall cant show us a bmx guy doin a frontflip barspin(that would be cool) but u can show a bmx guy snappin his bike in 2...
Dude your unicycle has no pedals! lol. No seriously I'm glad to hear this guy was ok 'cause that picture is a world of pain.
probably more to do with lightwieght is VERY fashionable in bmx at the mo,to a point of fashion over function & stuff like this is the result
tho
it wont be long before the mtb jumpers catch up with the bmx trend an steel 26"jump bikes become fasionably lighter an start failing like this
an then have further to fall LOL
tho
it wont be long before the mtb jumpers catch up with the bmx trend an steel 26"jump bikes become fasionably lighter an start failing like this
an then have further to fall LOL
For those of you who wanted to see a before and after, heres something i just threw together for you:
http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/4217297/#top
http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/4217297/#top
bmxes are alot stronger than a mtb the way they build them and the geometry makes most bmxes indestructable
if a mtb did the exact same the rims would be gone and head tube would mashed same with the triangles on the back
the only reason a bmx is stronger then a mtb is because a mtb is more complicated, it has alot more things to be broken, bmx's are simple alot less things to be broken on them
ye he did case this step up 50/50, he could easily get another one for free or at least majorly discounted
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my friend did this on a step up in a big indoor skate park (rampworx) wilst i was right behind him i bailed my bike up the step up and i ended up landing on the ledge of it :L quite fun tbh 
but this shit looks like its gonna hurt (alot)
but this shit looks like its gonna hurt (alot)
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I didn't see this! I was there for the slopestyle final, watched a bit of the bmx but didn't stay too long, nice photo though. Avoriaz is such a cool town, love the way the buildings all looked (I'll be posting some photos of the slopestyle at some point).
I've seen this happen before, but from a 540, not a flipwhip haha, I'd say this didn't end too well...
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In the last 3 bmx contests i have seen, 3 peoples bikes, in seperate competitions, have snapped at the headtube. Not enough gusseting i say!
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Good thing he has his finger on the brake. A finger on the brake will safely get you out of any situation. lol
its not fake and if i remember right your not suppose to post comments like fake or photo shooped anymore if you remember the agrrement that you clicked ok to comment on photos. hope the suspend you
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Highly unfortunate that hes only wearing one elbow pad, because hes about to eat the pavement for breakfast. Better say bye to a lot of his skin haha
these guys all had only one pad on, and in all my bail photos the were landing on that elbow. he was fine, made the bail look soft and wasnt too scathed i dont think
just abit bummed about the bike.
just abit bummed about the bike.
the look of dred on his face is funny his is like ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh shhhhiiiiiiitt
gd timing tho
gd timing tho
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exactly. why has no one realised that it snapped because it is a ukbikeco frame. you can see by their stupid colourway. and the fact that the tubing is so thin it can be dented by rain. thats waht you get when you make a stupidly light frame for mark webb so he can do flair,tap, flair to whip to barspin to decade to foot jam.
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bike............................................349$
right elbow pad.................................14.95$
the look on his face after his frame snapes.....PRICELESS
right elbow pad.................................14.95$
the look on his face after his frame snapes.....PRICELESS
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The rider is the little brother of Kevin Kalkoff ( nofake )
Im sure because he ride sometime in the skatepark of Geneva
Im sure because he ride sometime in the skatepark of Geneva
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he sooo good, but hes 6ft3 haha,
hes amazing though i saw him for the first time in the metro bmx jam.
hes amazing though i saw him for the first time in the metro bmx jam.
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Morzine, France
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Date: 2009-07-14
Trail: Avoriaz BMX
Riders: not sure - any help?
Description: snappage of the head tube after an attempt at a flip whip. photo by: Steve Price
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