The City Downhill World Tour returned once again to Valparaiso, Chile, but this year a new course awaited the competitors. The tight turns proved to be challenging, as Ignacio Rojo learned all too well, but amazingly he managed to emerge from his crash relatively unscathed.
Im glad he took the right steps to prevent injury. Otherwise there could of been a bad case of crashing. He would of had to step out of the competition and stair at it from behind the handrail.
My thought exactly.. Urban DH is essentially one big ass rock garden. At least some thin pads to keep skin and flesh on the bones would seem like a good idea.
Well I admit that it would scare the shit out of me if I want to hit the eject button but found out that I'm tangled into my bike. No matter how puny the fall might seem to a hardcore badass like you Protour. Most of my broken bones, torn ligaments, etc. injuries have been a result of extremely unlucky combo of odds instead of going big and crashing like a rock star. Was it the lack of blood and guts that disqualified this particular crash as being terrifying or being really lucky and escaping the accident without injuries?
Point was not whether or not the particular crash is the most terrifying event in the history of mankind, just the factor that being tangled with your bike increases the odds for bad injuries greatly. If you play that game then nothing in the world of dh comes even close to horrors of daily life so you could diminish every accident to no end. Why are we even debating about this? Speed doesn't automatically make accidents severe, neither does how bad it looks like. Or would you say Cedric Gracia's accident was not terrifying because it was just a minor tumble far from Rampage style showstopper? www.pinkbike.com/news/Video-CGs-Bloody-Crash.html
I love how at the end he's just standing there straddling his bike, ready to rip again. Basically just did a cartwheel down the stairs with a 40LB bike between his legs.
The way he landed at the end looked like he done that on purpose for the go pro sticks.. hahaa,... but honestly you've gotta have some balls going urban without pads! shiiiit son.
The thing that scares me the most in these races is when they are going mach 10 down a super narrow stairway with a handlebar-height railing on the side. They are only a couple of inches away from catching their bars and going down super hard. They also sometimes transition onto a curb at high-speed and weird angles, and their timing of on-off jump sets over stairs has to be really precise.
m.pinkbike.com/news/urban-dh-crashes-video-2015.html
Rojo wasn't even going very fast here, he is practically at a stop when he starts to crash. Scary crash? I guess. Terrifying crash? Hell no.
www.pinkbike.com/news/Video-CGs-Bloody-Crash.html
Or this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ImuTpUYa-4
Just a tumble, nothing serious, just walk it off, quit whining and be a man...
Or this: tvnz.co.nz/close-up/mountain-biker-relives-his-freak-accident-3461891/photos
Can't be bad because it was lousy XC tumble on a wussy trail...