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Not really Steve, if you landed with your front wheel sideways off a 10 foot drop at that speed it would taco no matter what make of wheel it was.
POD!
Daaaamn, thats a hell of a crash! Its like most impressive just-before-the crash photo on whole PINKBIKE!!!!
Daaneel, that's a lame comment. I bet almost every wheel would do that, doing a 6ft drop with 30mph, landing with your frontwheel sideways..? Come on, that doesn't say anything about DT.
For Sale, Fr. 20mm DT swiss, only used once, slight bend, could use a bit of a true. make an offer. LOL
My favorite part of this pic is that his fingers are still on the brakes.
Gives you an idea of how fast this happened. OUCH
Gives you an idea of how fast this happened. OUCH
HOLY CRAP! O__O thats the 9 at Bromont.... I ride that trail.lol So the lesson: slow down on the roll down haha
Man the way its going this photo will be the most fav'd photo of the year... over 2100 favs?! Crazy! But it defiantly deserves it 
thats just crazy ......one of the crashes you just want to go home and rest in your bathtub or hottub!!
His wheel is perfectly flat on the ground on one side and it looks like hes superman and that hes just gonna keep on going.
i bet he still thinks life is good in this shot... soon, he will realize, he just got f*cked... lol.
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I think the finger on the brake is a little bit too little and a little bit too late. Gotta be stoked on the commitment though.
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It was horrid seeing it live on freecaster, he could barely move afterwards.
Hoppefully hes allright now
Hoppefully hes allright now
It was even more horrible on site. Just seeing the guy motionless and gasping for air. I’m still freaked out.
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u saw that on freecaster... you could see his wheel just get caught then he went over. bad crash. but amazing picture also props for that. POD
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look at the dude in the backround he is like holy shit lol btw if this dosent get pod pinkbike fails
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wow. brutal. im always against POD's being crashes, but in this case the gnar level is about where i think this deserves pod. f*cking gnarly.
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Ouch Kyle!
Still committed though! Not grabbing brakes, legs are still tucked in. Happened so fast!
Heres a video clip of the crash > http://www.pinkbike.com/video/91195/
Get well soon Kyle!
Still committed though! Not grabbing brakes, legs are still tucked in. Happened so fast!
Heres a video clip of the crash > http://www.pinkbike.com/video/91195/
Get well soon Kyle!
in stead of rolling with wheel try the newe inproved halo hope's today at only £299.99 there only 203mm wheels soo you will get maximum speed lmao that isnt going to go down well on the records and if i was in that situation my arms would have been out fron under me by now and i would have called the paramedics by now surely lol nnice pic POD maybe
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wow,i can't believe he got knocked out...guess those 2350's ain't as good as people think
TOTALY AWSOME PIC THOUGH
alls i gotta say is OUCH
POD
TOTALY AWSOME PIC THOUGH
alls i gotta say is OUCH
POD
ive got a pic of that same taco time, after i straightend it out a bit to get it on the rack if anyone wants to check it out, laying in bed with some wicked meds right now
i have to admit i was smoken when i hit, found the bike half hour later hundred feet away in some long grass, dont think any wheel would have took it, his didnt seem that crazy though, the way he landed anyway
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well that could of ended in 2 different ways , and clearly its ended badly ! awesome shot but poor guy! props
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i was watching @ freecaster.tv when it happened...that was really a big ass crash..he fell like 4 meters down
I also thought dt swiss was unbreakable, but I wonder how another rim would have coped with these forces..
His hand looked mushy after the crash, hope he's recovering good
I also thought dt swiss was unbreakable, but I wonder how another rim would have coped with these forces..
His hand looked mushy after the crash, hope he's recovering good
that sucks soo much he was out the second he hit the ground, well at least his brakes are ok O.O(stronger than the rim)O.O
impressive timing... but I think the rider does not care about the photographer's skill at this moment
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o man the poor bike how could u do that
jokes that must of hurt bet it took alot out of yer bank as well
jokes that must of hurt bet it took alot out of yer bank as well
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I'm going to be riding this trail in a couple of hours and I'm going to check out this section of the WC course just to get a feel for how fast he had to have been going to do this lol.... honestly we don't realize when watching footage how fast these WC guys are actually going, it's insane... to cause equipment failure like that you have to be killing it.
I was one of the guys in the crowd right behind there, the crash was so brutal, everybody felt it. I saw the bike afterwards, front wheel bent in two and his the arch on his fork snaped and kinked about 2 inches. Sick Picture, but everytime I see it I still get shivers.
Yesterday at Whistler I saw a guy snap the arch of his 2010 boxxer team like a twig in a harmless crash right in front of me. I have the same fork too. Scary.
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Guys if you watch the video closely, you will see that his wheel slightly tacos BEFORE the take off. It got caught inbetween a couple rocks which bent it before the take off. The rock at the top is what twisted the wheel, the landing just finished it. So in otherwords, the rim was hooped before the drop even occurred ... any rim would have done the same.
Then how do you explain this?
http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/3804374/
http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/3804374/
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Watching that video of him hitting the ground... shoot. I hope he's okay.
Good thing he was wearing a Leatt.
Good thing he was wearing a Leatt.
Thats what you get for running a DTswiss wheel. I bet the brake rotor holds up better than those wheels.... I agree with above, I hope the poor guys ok.
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I think the same as the second comment, but also it a good thing the disk didn't get hurt much... POD
POD for sure, I guess thats what happens when ya run soggy aluminium DT Wheelsets, definately the softest rim/wheelset on the market. Poor dude.
tja die guten leichtbaufelgen, davon wird er noch länger was haben tja bromont killt halt einfach alles
tja bromont killt halt einfach alles
shiiiit, haha i know someone said it already, but it reallly did look like his wheel went through the boards.
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this is what happens when guys care more about ow much the bike weighs than how strong it is haha.... sucker
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That is epic failure at its best amazing timing on the shot. props to photog. and the rider that must have hurt.
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wow i laughed soooooo hard when i saw this. and he was prolly lookin at the camera going "i dont want a picture of this."
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oh crap at least the Troy Lee gear will protect him and cushin the fall a bit, best stuff money can buy
Haha fail, I bet tht wtf is hapening was going through his mind when tht happent! Yeah it's rly epic tht his rotor wasn't bent (yet)
ahhhh dude its just like he came around the turn and smacked the the rock WHAAAPACK!!! and then he bent his rim like BAAHHHH and after that he just fell down and got pitted, so pitted, lke that.
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Here is how he landed, no wheel or fork will work with these angles;
http://kevinscott.pinkbike.com/album/OUCH/
http://kevinscott.pinkbike.com/album/OUCH/
I dont understand why so many peoples have poor comment or can joke about a crash like that,common the guys is most likely hurt bad,there is nothing to laugh about.
wow it took me a long time to scroll down to leave a comment.
i hope nobody tells me i should have clicked at the bottom of the scroll bar...
sick pic anyway though
i hope nobody tells me i should have clicked at the bottom of the scroll bar...
sick pic anyway though
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oh dear barbra... when things fail during a dh run they usually fail in a big way. I like the guy in the hat near the upper right side of the pic his face is priceless... looks like an OH face OH OH OH....
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this shot was timed perfect! if you watch the video it happened so fast you don't even see the taco'd wheel hardly.
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thats hapened to me like 5 time's, thats no biggy, what loses would think this is a good pic? idiots.
Kyles fine, he swung by our warehouse today and showed off his hands and back... not much besides a bruise or two. Picture of him post crash here www.straitline.blogspot.com
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it looked so brutal on TV...It didnt look bad, but the pic put another perspective on it...hope you're feeling better Kyle!
HAHA just look at all the people laughing. theyve obvviously been waiting for a crash for a lonnnng time
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ya dude......he def. is.......how did he taco his rim tho???? that doesn't really make any sense.....any1 else know y?
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hope that never happens to me i saw the replay on freecaster that would be one crash I would just lay there and ask my self, WHY ME.
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The worst part is the dude rolling that guy of the course. I realize there are other riders behind him, but let get the guy some medical attention first. WOW!!!!!
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Bromont, Quebec, Canada
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Date: 2009-08-01
Trail: Bromont World Cup (53)
Riders: Kyle MARSHALL
Description: Criss de débarque
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