Sequence Saturday: Terrifying Urban DH Crash

Mar 3, 2015 at 8:24
by Mike Kazimer  

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.


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  • 237 3
 He staired danger right in the face
  • 78 3
 Don't be too quick stepping on his pride.
  • 54 9
 Haha what a stairy crash
  • 96 2
 He stepped out of his comfort zone
  • 54 7
 That crash was a step up from the others, it escalatored so quickly!
  • 19 6
 Talk about doing a barrel roll mid flight
  • 85 5
 These puns are sterrible, you guys really need to step up your game...
  • 11 28
flag metong (Mar 7, 2015 at 3:20) (Below Threshold)
 Two steps behind?
  • 17 5
 Here come the hot stepper
  • 23 2
 stairway to hell
  • 62 3
 Pinkbike, thanks for the step by step photo sequence.
  • 54 1
 Everyone just staired at him
  • 11 2
 His front wheel stepped out on him.
  • 28 1
 Stair case
  • 4 2
 @mrmatija such stairrfying crash
  • 31 1
 I hate stairs. They're always up to something.
  • 3 12
flag TreyDownhill (Mar 7, 2015 at 13:30) (Below Threshold)
 those cops at the end staired at the downed rider with concern
  • 2 10
flag RideByNight (Mar 7, 2015 at 16:22) (Below Threshold)
 That de-escalated quickly
  • 11 5
 No Stairway! Denied!
  • 3 5
 Crashes go down!
  • 4 5
 hes making big steps to a full recovery
  • 1 14
flag loho (Mar 8, 2015 at 3:31) (Below Threshold)
 I bet all the (st)hairs on the back of his neck pricked up
  • 1 2
 Steppin Out Tonight
  • 4 0
 And he's biting the stairway to heaven.
  • 1 4
 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.
  • 60 2
 Ouch. I can't believe these guys don't wear any body armor
  • 27 1
 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.
  • 37 6
 D - bag bros don't need anything more than a tank top. It's science.
  • 6 3
 Thats really just totally stupid. Style over safety. I do hope he learned from his mistake.
  • 2 0
 probably not. wearing pads wouldnt be EXTREME! ok where's my mtn dew code red?
  • 1 0
 @nlitworld I saw a motorcyclist on Hwy 1 yesterday wearing a tank top and thought of your comment, made me laugh.
  • 49 0
 this is prolly one of the "safest" places to crash on that course. glad to see that this is the most terrifying crash that happened.
  • 12 0
 I guess the "terrible" part is being stuck to your bike while tumbling down stairs.
  • 10 0
 Hows he still on the bike and standing at the bottom of the stairs?
  • 5 24
flag Protour (Mar 7, 2015 at 5:27) (Below Threshold)
 Hardly qualifies as "terrifying".
  • 6 0
 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?
  • 2 1
 I guess just the fact that more than 25% of the crashes in this urban race video actually were terrifying.

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.
  • 2 1
 To be fair,some of the crashes on that video are way more horrific
  • 1 0
 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

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...
  • 1 0
 @Siphaeon , where did you find the last one? Holy crap!!
  • 10 0
 Got to give him credit for protecting the new 2015 bike! (I don't think it touched anything)
  • 6 0
 That's exactly what I thought- I bet he was thinking the whole way down 'Hit my face, hit my body, hit anything but my Emeralds!!!' ha ha.
  • 3 0
 frame 3 looks like there might have been some direct stair to emerald contact Frown
  • 9 0
 Sequence fail. A rock is nothing but a rock,...except for the moment before you hit the fackin' thing.
  • 2 0
 What does it turn into after you hit it?
  • 5 0
 a puppy
  • 1 0
 Toad....an Offroad Toad
  • 8 0
 No neck brace??
  • 5 0
 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.
  • 6 0
 he needs to STEP up his game!!
  • 4 0
 It's like a train crash, I didn't want to but all I could do was stair on in horror.
  • 5 0
 Man, I bet he's seeing stairs after that one.
  • 1 0
 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.
  • 3 0
 Stairs and ramps are overrated, I think I'll take this rock wall with my back...oh yes...much faster.
  • 3 0
 I think he tumbled down the stairs faster than he could have ridden them.
  • 2 0
 Is this a new enduro method of cornering? There's no way I'm tough enough to do this. You kids are crazy. Wink
  • 8 7
 Great sequence, but I wouldn't call a low speed switchback crash "terrifying". There are a million spots more terrifying to crash in a city DH race.
  • 2 1
 Yeah I think the use of 'relatively unschathed' for the outcome, kinda makes 'terrifying' seem like an exaggeration.
  • 2 0
 Horrific!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • 2 0
 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.
  • 3 0
 so tough wearing a vest on an urban DH course
  • 1 0
 That is one gorgeous bike/fork set-up. Glad he was able to unclip and end up sticky side down.
  • 3 1
 Poor DVO Frown
  • 1 0
 That's one way to get down...
  • 1 0
 The sequence is backwards, he actually rolled UP the stairs.
  • 1 0
 I hope the DVO is alright.
  • 2 0
 I hope bike is ok.
  • 1 0
 seems like he just wanted to step down and grab a cold one lol
  • 1 0
 STILL DONT KNOW WHY ,,,HE DOES NOT HAVE BODY ARMOUR ON :o :o :o
  • 1 0
 Eeeek! Looks like the rear triangle will have a nasty scratch Frown
  • 1 0
 Good place to take pictures from.
  • 4 3
 In my opinion these urban DH races are even more gnarlier than Rampage...
  • 3 2
 picture 11 yells.....where's your leatt brace!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • 2 1
 I hope the bike was okay.
  • 2 0
 Is the bike allright ?
  • 1 0
 Ready for the WWE! From PARTS UNKNOWN! MR. MTB!
  • 1 0
 ...will this urban DH thing just stop already...
  • 1 0
 I cringe watching him frame by frame. Ouch!
  • 2 0
 Oh look! A penny!
  • 1 0
 Wao he finished stand up
  • 3 2
 deep diving Razz
  • 1 0
 and the crowd goes wild!
  • 1 0
 i am imortal
  • 1 3
 That's what you get for putting a green fork on an orange bike......
  • 1 4
 Man look at all them go pro sticks
  • 1 3
 fox enduro knee pads?
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