Video: Friday Fails #101

 3.1) Be overweight
3.2) slip feet off pedals
3.3) aggresively place taint on top tube
3.4) go OTB
3.5) ensure someones filming for Friday Fails

 @OpeSorryAbootThat: You forgot 3.4a) Run fork with no compression

 @chriskneeland: And make sure your shock rebounds like Wilt Chamberlain

 you forgot "fully open shock rebound"

 @OpeSorryAbootThat:

Comment of the day mate!! Lol thanks for the laugh.

 @chriskneeland: and 3.4b) zero rebound damping in the shock

 @pioterski: The good ol' Jerry combo.

 Is step 3 collect underpants?

 Have big balls

 Tearing down a tree with my bare hands is not a fail in my book.

 @Thor44

HAHAHA I read the comments before I watched. Total tourists getting a wake up call. Props to them for trying, though. Did they have German accents? The German Tourist is unstoppable.

 Man, I thought he was doing a pretty good job the first two drops. Then he decides to drift right for some reason. I thought his bike crashing below was one of the more humorous scenes of the video.

 So that's why the trail is called King Kong.

Who knew?

 That's why I don't ride ridges

 Kong is no joke!

 That 150ft bike fling finish!

 @endlessblockades: "The German Tourist is unstoppable."

Except when they head East.

Talking of which, some great fun fails from our Polish friends whilst the Aussies - ah ye mate, tak'n it easy maaate.

 @endlessblockades: Whatever he says, it's not German

 @gnarterrorist: and north west

 Damn dude these are kinda funny, that was just scary and hard to watch.

 That's a sickening crash. So gnarly.

 Jesus f*ck... that is nightmare fuel! Actually think I have nightmares that look exactly like that... from the miss to the noises he makes... man, wish i didn't see that..

www.instagram.com/p/B7YJdEcHfv-

 @yoimaninja: yep so true... really not funny, hard to watch.

 @islandforlife: Sooooo, you post the link.

 My son showed me that this morning. He's pretty young and immune to fear... but he was truly frightened and shaken up by that clip.

 @islandforlife: Thanks for sharing, i almost puked .

 Saw that last night, had some messed up dreams.. Make's all the friday fails look tame. Guy's a beast making it out alive and walking again

 @mtbikeaddict: ha, yep... most people, like me... would read the comments, not want to see it, but still find themselves searching and watching anyway... just made it easier for them.

 @islandforlife:
I wish I could just unwatch that too... Holy f*ck I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep tonight.

 After everyone's comments, I read his post about his injuries first before watching the video and had my hand on the mouse. So glad I did because I closed it as soon as he left the bridge. I don't want to hear what came next or see him hit. That is just horrible.

 @blowmyfuse: You really don't. The sound he makes made my gut wrench

 @irahudgin: I watched it with no sound first and it was bad, the sound made it a lot worse. Not watching it ever again.

 oh my god!!!! That was a nightmare....

 Just watched it. I don't know where to begin, no downward roll into it so you have to pedal like chris froome to get enough speed to clear it. The gap looks huge and a too similar a level to the take off? Is there any footage of pros doing this from another angle? How he took the decision to launch off that I don't know, that's a brutal a watch.

 @r-macattack: Search Pemberton Train Gap.

 @islandforlife: that's messed up man

 islandforlife: "Wish I didn't see that... I should link it for everyone else..."

 ...wow. Wow. Insane. Looks like he got a bit offline and swiped a tree before takeoff? That is the most brutal crash I’ve ever seen—makes Rogatkin at Rampage seem normal. Ugh.

 How do you miss something that big by that much. It wasn't even close. I'm not sure I'll ever get that video out of my head.

 @r-macattack: it’s a pretty famous gap in Pemberton, just google pemberton train gap

 @r-macattack: He was pedalling hard then slipped a pedal, he tried to pull up but couldn't stop in time.

 For anyone wondering about Tom's crash.

I've been to the gap before, and walked away from it. I've kicked myself every day for doing so, until seeing Tom's crash yesterday. I've now finally made peace with my decision, as that could've so easily been me. It's gnarly as f*ck and no footage will ever do it justice.

Just before the ramp there is an oddly placed flat rock slab. You can barely make it out in any footage, so I didn't even know it was there until I arrived. You need to ride over the slab to maintain a straight approach. Tom, for reason unknown, decided to go around the rock, causing him to approach the ramp off angle, panic brake... and you know the rest.... If you slow his footage down you can see all of this happen.

When I went in April 2019, it had rained all night causing the run-in to be pretty slippy, especially the little slab (which was covered in wet moss at the time) and the ramp itself. It was my worst nightmare to come in hot, slip the back tyre on the slab and then be catapulted off the ramp to my certain death. Tom's gopro footage is exactly what I envisioned whilst I was stood there. So I walked away. I've not written it off, I'd love to go back one day with someone who's hit it before.

On purpose or not, I believe Tom's act of going around that little slab decided his fate for him that day.

 @JamesGTi: thx for explaining!
A friend of mine did the gap last year. but with the help from a local, who was ridden in front of him.

 @JamesGTi: Man unless you can look at a gap like that and think yeah that's no big deal (see: Remy/Joann) don't even try it. The consequences are just way too high and you have absolutely nothing to gain. Realistically after this was constructed and attempted it probably should have been taken down. Otherwise sooner or later someone is going to try it who shouldn't.

 @JamesGTi: I've been trying not to re-watch the insta video but you're totally right. Here's a still from Remy's diesel wolf/gap trail preview. You can see the rock.
www.pinkbike.com/photo/18186965

It actually looks like Tom Walker was going fast enough until he tried to go left of that rock. If you stop his video he actually almost misses the takeoff ramp entirely. Unfortunately you don't get any do-overs on this one.

 Shit Imagine if they tried to jump a train

 @friendlyfoe: I dunno man, it's been an ambition of mine for years now to get that famous photo of me gapping the train tracks! Would definitely prove a lot of people wrong I know that for sure. I do hope so one day! But yes, I was wise to walk away that day.

I know it did get taken down at one point, a few years back, apparently it was CP Rail that ordered it themselves, but that's just conjecture.

And yeah that's the rock. Such a little detail that you'd never pick up on if you weren't there.

 @JamesGTi: Things as high consequence as this shouldn't be done for ego, but for one's self. If you think there is something to be gained because 'you would prove others wrong', you should give your head a shake and rethink what's truely important.

 @gnarnaimo: understood man. See your point.

 @JamesGTi: www.vitalmtb.com/videos/member/Go-Big-Or-Go-Home-Pemberton-Train-Gap-Attempt,32114/iceman2058,94

You mean the one in 1:05?

 @dh-corn: correct dude

 He absolutely exploded on landing.

 I was just thinking that I would like to tally this somewhere. Duthie must be the most frequent Friday Fails location.

 it seems like duthie is in here every other week

 As frequently as the medics go to duthie? @rpinney206:

 Would love to see a little edit of repeated failures on a popular feature. Is everyone crashing in the same way, anyone get points for creativity, most hang time, least... this might be fun to explore.

 and good camera control to perfectly frame the bike cartwheeling down the hill afterwards.

 For these guys it's the MTB Energizer Bunny

 People who record in portrait mode should have a tech come to their house and mount their TV in 9:16 on their wall.

 @ChazzMichaelMichaels: I thought you were going to say they should be flogged.

 Everybody is stoked that Dave is OK

 You alrite Dave?

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 @blowmyfuse: u 3 ain’t everyone lol

 Joey’s ok

 Apart from the kid at 1:40.. that was a SLAM

 Was that Kong or Lunch Line?

 @Hogfly: kong

 @Hogfly: Kong for him - Lunch line for the bike. That thing got eaten.

 Came here to say the same thing. My man was not coming up short and he stuck to the plan. Full marks.

 That move on Jackson's is really straightforward. This was a grade A "gaper goes to Moab" wreck.

 @peleton7: Thanks! Though I don't normally feel like a gaper, I suppose I have that coming.

However, the move straight down the middle is pretty straight forward. A bit of a huck into chunk, but it's doable. I thought that the left line looked a little more sexy. There is a bit of a transition there that'll smooth that drop right out. It's narrow, and it's doable. But I just blew it.

 Part of what made me feel comfortable giving this section a go was that it was far less exposed than other sections. I was concerned when my bike continued to bounce about 30 feet below the wreck!

 #Treelivesmatter

 #TreeToo

 Brake***

 The widow maker is a cruel mistress. Saw a few heavy diggers when I was there last year.

 @Jamesgoulding: Friend of mine was a lifty at the top of that lift, she said in busy periods it was one or two choppers a day taking people away.

 Why do parks build massive booters right under the lift? Seems like the universe is setting you up for failure at that point.

 @stoo61: yeah man I was there a 2 weeks and saw a fair few people getting choppered out from super M and at les gets. Doesnt fill you with confidence in the way up haha.

 @Jamesgoulding: haha sounds about right. I reckon lots of lads go out for a week, they get to the last day and think they have to hit it. I lived there 2.5 years and never hit it, not my jam and I know it.

 @stoo61: oh yeah deffo!! You have to hit it fast aswel to clear. I like the big stuff there, the little step down at the bigginging of the red also claimed a few people while I was there. I’m sure it’s one of those ‘you gotta hit it Cus we are here’ things

 one of those failing portrait-oriented clips is so skinny I swear they've got it letter-boxed!

 **DId NOT end up where

 Jackson I believe

 Just Jackson. Probably one of my new favorites in Moab, despite going over the bars hard here!