Crash: Tomas Slavik Goes Down at City DH in Santos

 I think they do put their riders through a course. Step 1: MAKE SURE LOGO IS SHOWN AT ALL TIMES
Step 2: DOUBLE CHECK TO MAKE SURE THE LOGO IS SHOWING

Just kidding...... Crash sounded pretty nasty, did the rim explode too or was it just the tyre???

 Looking at the following video, @1:20, seems like one of the spectators picked his rim up to use as a cow bell !

Glad he managed to roll on landing and not hurt himself too much.

 They're also not shooting in 1440... They should all be using that or supervise.

 Kyle Strait's camera angle at Red Bull Rampage was terrible, your looking at his tire the whole time.

 I'd probably rather that than a rock between the eyes! Rocks don't have much give in them either!

 How did he take his shoe and glove off. Mad crash.

 I know what You're saying mate. Dirt comparing to concrete seems to be fluffy, comfortable quilt.

 He should have been using schwalbes dual chamber tyres...

 Crash like this are hard to forget.

 Depends, like bighitter said, I'd much rather fall on stairs that in the middle of a rock garden with sharp rocks.

 I think these races are likely to do more harm than good in the long run. It was one thing when they were for fun but now that it is a championship guys are going to take bigger risks. A guy i know hucked off a set of stairs and hit a bollard on landing. Had his spleen removed and a couple of months in the hospital. Now i know that can happen in dh too but there are a lot less hard objects to smash into.

 @Mattin I'd rather not just fall at all.

 @z05m: Nah it's part of the sport: no risk, no fun )
@SirWonky: even the youtube title for the video says his tyre blew and you can hear the explosion. Also he was nowhere near something with his handlebars when he fell.

 Puts on shoe and says "ya I'm ok." Ya man!!!, glad ur ok.
enduro? really come on have you seen the stairs sets? urban enduro would be on the streets not the stairs

 pinkkrow- you guys have zero sense of humor... he's obviously kidding. If anything it's urban all-mountain riding


I wish there was another view because the initial explosion sounded so gnarly.

 @tankzaclover: I think he only had the left glove on (for some reason)...

 Random thought he lost glove and shoe. Defo lost his shoe in the crash going to watch it again and see if I can see a pair of gloves.

 Dhmf your right only one glove from the start.

 On asphalt or concrete you slide but on dirt you stop much more abrubptly increasing your chance of breaking bones though I know its probably a different situation falling on stairs.

 ^ and also less sliding doesn't necessarily mean more broken bones... forward momentum dispersing impacts really only matters on the landing of jumps/drops.

 Both have their ups and downs looking at how you fall. As a street rider I prefer to fall on concrete because I hate having dirt in my wounds (my fear is reasonable tho, someone very close to me who is a DH dirt almost passed away by Tetanus after crashing on a DH and getting dirt in his wounds, if he'd be at the doctor one hour later the anti-posion wouldn't have worked in time and he would not be here anymore).


But also a thing you need to realise is that on different types of grounds you need to fall in different ways. For example when dirt riders fall, they roll down the landing and they are okay. If a dirt rider crashes on street he's used to rolling out, and he'll get all bruised up and get wounds everywhere due to the rough ground. But when I ride street I just jump off my bike and land on both of my feet like nothing happened. But if I ride dirt and try to fall the same way, it just doesn't work due to the much harder impact, and that's why I always get hurt riding dirt and nearly never get hurt while riding street, because I've teached myself to bail everywhere the same way I do as on street.

 I'd like to see a shot of the carnage that is now his rear wheel

 did his wheel taco when he landed? what went wrong?!!
hope he's ok!

 That was heavy, mick hannah also had a rear blow out too but managed to save it in practice without going down.

@Hound I think he just blew it out and then it was just rim on concrete which would have been like riding on ice at that speed.

 lol, Go Pro crash test: ragdoll on concrete: Pass.

Glad to see he's okay, all those metel barrier's could add to a nasty crash at high speed if you got a limb wedged in there, maybe they should cover them with plastic sheet for advertising or something.

Also love the medic, " take you helemet off, no, okay you go again" he's obviously a mtbr.

 Yeah, I loved the medic's comment too !
I somehow think you're not allowed to walk back up and start again
Unless he was asking if he wanted to carry on to the bottom ?

 +1

 With the number of poky things and square edges on urban courses I'm amazed we don't see more bad crashes.

 Thought that too, interesting to see if anyone rides somethin like that on the urban dh circuit, i think that would work well

 Maxxis Hookworms. THE urban dh tire.

 i use schwalbe crazy bobs for urban assault

 No. This is why material failure is sketchy.

 New 5.10 impacts. I don't think they are available yet.

 Actually, no. They are not!

 aye der la

 Posted 2 hrs ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u-XeTLWhMI

 That was sick!

 Polkster

 What's with the cheesy porno music?

 different person... Thomas Slavik crashed The run you posted is of Filip Polc