Wtf why is this POD? Who at PB is choosing these? It's a guy about to crash.... there are TONS of better photos out there that are MILES better than this, seriously.
Yesok. No, honestly, two ways this could have happened. No one tightened the pinch bolts on the left arm, or no one tightened the pinch bolts and the bolt cap that goes in the left arm, either way, this could have been avoided very easily. It's only two bolts you need to tighten. Still funny though, must have sucked landing.
all of you people that said "oh wow how did you get this close" and stuff like that you do know there is a thing on a camera that allows you to "ZOOM" closer to what your taking a picture of
Ok, 1 What are the chances, 2 How on earth....??, 3 That's going to be painfull on the landing!, and finally Who took this picture I want to give him some kind of award...jesus christ you need a hell of a lot of manup to stay there and dare take this pic! Bravo!!
What a co-indidence this is,i was reading one of my recent mags the other day,(Decline,Dirt,MBUK),it was one of them mags. Anyway their was a berm shot getting owned by two riders,from that classic above shot,and Dr Steve Peat was pulling no bones that he was riding a Morewood,same colour and model as the one in todays POD,yet anybody who has ever seen Dr Steve Peat will tell ya that he does'nt have brown eyebrows,and brown eyes.So who is this mysterious rider?Plus no TLD D3,which is like the "Bill" without any fans,as far as Peaty goes. Gringo
Forget what you read above,there is in fact another Peaty in the land of Oz,and thats the pic i saw the other day,when it was POD and at that time i only knew of one Peaty,put 2+2 together and came up with 6,so i deserve any flack coming my way from the land of Oz,but just to try and wet the flames,i think this rider Peaty is the real deal,crank failures come and go.But the brave photographer of todays POD needs full props for still being where he is,keeping it in focus,then commando rollin out of the way.But if you have a look at santacruzinvpfrees album,you,ll see more of him in there,he's the real deal. Gringo
Lame POD! guy gets POD for lack of maintenance on his bike. i think tonight i am going to loosen off my headset and stem and hit some jumps tomorrow....
Hahahahhahahhahaha.... mano fodeu... naum pro cara q tah encima da bike, esse quase nem se machuca, mais igagino o kra q tah tirano a foto....
Ultima foto dele antes de ir pro hospital...
its the worst pic ever, retarded and lame, pb shouldnt even have a section for pod if they're gonna put crap like this up, man i also cant wait to see how many neg props i'll get for this comment, IM STOKED
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i ride at that track twice a week for racing and gates that jump is easy to recover off and he must have felt the cranks coming lose before he did that jump and you need a special tool to get the drive side off
whats that special tool, if the left arm is off, the right side can come out just by sliding the spindle out, so what special tool are you talking about
Holly crap! I never saw that trick one-foot with crank, nice! He's face looks like he know how look the bloody scrambled eggs! After that, try to check your crankset before you go go. Please..
Didn't really need to point out the snap - could have just said 'running an External BB' in the description and we could just expect it to be broken or snapped.
I dont think its fake, you can see theres no spindal on the left side crank, and the right side/rest of the broken spindal is pulling out the right side of the bike
Why exactly would anyone intentionally smash their nads just to get a photo that everyone was gonna say is fake anyway? If anyone was going to try to "set this up" don't you think they'd be smart enough not to use clip ins? As far as I can see, there's no way to fake that without paying a big penalty. Not worth it.
Dude rideonjon...he wasn't complaining at all. I admit, sometimes wuffy's comments irk me the wrong way, but he did nothing wrong here man. Go take a rage dump.
Rule one of basic bike riding-
Before you start your days riding, Always check over the bike to ensure that nuts and bolts are tightened and secure.............
Yes you could be "ripping" as you so put it but, the only thing that's "ripping" is your hamstring, your riding pants shortly followed by your mates who are "ripping" it out of you for being a school boy idiot for not doing the basics on the bike first......
how could you photoshop that?? it would be f*ckin hard to photoshop the chain where it is, going over the roller, and all the spokes are right, if this is fake it's a bloody good photoshop
most of the people who scream photoshop, just use it to fcuk up pics. have you guys had a crank fall off? it happens, QUICK! wouldn't take long for that to slide off, maybe 1/2sec to slide out, look how far back his leg is, i would say it's about 1/2-1/4 sec behind him, so that is probably about right.
Sorry but I think its fake. Just how could the bb spindle on the right work itself out that far just after breaking??? Funny looking never the less! LoL
I dont think its fake, but I think its staged. He is looking straight at the camera? And......I know this could have really happened, but why is the photographer taking this shot from this angle unless he knows whats gonna happen? Its like when you watch "America's Funniest Home Video's" and you wonder.... "Why were they filming this??" Also, I run two piece style cranks (saints) and had my pinch bolts loosen on me....... That right side assy. slides in/out easy, if the pinch bolts loose, and the end cap falls off, they are coming apart pretty quickly, not something that sneaks up on you. Again, plausable but I just have a hunch this is rigged.
My cousins crank fell off unexpectedly before. And why wouldn't you be looking at the camera? He's probably saying "sorry" to the camera person in his head. I think that this could've been a sick angle too.
Yeah... If this kid's dumb enough to stage his own wreck, and possible smash his scrotum all for a photo, let's give him POD before he does something even more stupid. Personally, I don't think he'd do this on purpose. Kids these days though, you never know I guess.
since when do you apply side forces on cranks.. they go up and down and you pull em up with you bike.. not side ways.. its fake for sure what rattls above said too,.
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