Behind the Scenes of Brendan Fairclough's Rampage Crash - Video

 what are you gonna do? measure the speed on the kicker and if the rider is to slow yell at him he's gonna fall of a cliff?

 @leopaul: No, but if you calculated the speed needed to safely land on the other side given distance, height, mass, you could then program that into a smart phone app which could give you an alert, a very loud beep for example, when the minimum safe speed was reached before a designated point-of-no-return. I am in no way an app engineer or code writer, but it seems like all of that could be done with current smart phone technology.

 @mosierman: OK you can be the one calculating the designated point-of-no-return. If you get that wrong you get even worse crashes with people falling straight into canyons.

 @mosierman: Technically, you don't need to know the mass of an object; just the height difference (if there is one), distance, speed at takeoff, and takeoff angle

 @leopaul: Cam Zink and Kyle Strait used speed guns and a tow-in to ensure Zink had the right speed for the world record backflip last year.

 @gramboh: Yea but he had the ability to go around the ramp if he wasn't going fast enough, where is Brendan suppose to go at that point?

 All i'd say is try following a dirt jumper into a kicky lip when you predominantly ride DH. There is a boost that comes from no where that gives them an extra 5 feet somehow. I try following guys into lines at 4X races but it's no use cos the speed they hit a jump at is usually slower than me to achieve the same distance.

 @mosierman: so you're riding up to the lip in your rampage run and you don't hear the beep and then you start thinking about the beep and then you pedal once and still no beep and then you begin to panic and then 1 foot before you hit the kicker it beeps and startles you. You seriously think it's feasible to be riding rampage stuff and thinking about all that and listening for beeps?

 The real reason it wouldn't work is cause of the rider. The self correcting in the air, and more importantly the little push in our legs as you hit a jump. You can absorb the lip, pull back like hell, just float it, and thousands of in between. Theres a hundred different speeds you could hit a jump and still make the gap, just from how you take the lip. And that cannot be measured. Just watch the difference between a BMX racer and a BMX Dirt Jumper hitting the same jump...it's completely different styles and speed.