For people who's bike feels like this during a jump, it means you need to adjust your rebound. Either make the front faster, or the rear shock slower to balance the bike out for similar cases like in this video.
this is exactly why when I "start" feeling fatigued at our local downhill spot, I go ahead and pack it in and call it a day. It's always the last run that ends up with disaster.
Good advice abzillah but it looked to me like he just got "caught out" with a body fully stretched and not enough leverage to pull up. Also, he came up short (likely from getting caught out and not being able to pop off the lip). Looks like a good rider and it happens to the best. Wicked crash to catch on such good quality film and great to see him roll through and not get hung up at any point to keep that momentum going through and not into the ground and body. I'd assume he was sore though... great riding and edit. Thanks!
Yep I did that to myself 7 weeks ago - only i was going much faster and hit a compacted gravel road. I am still not right. By far the most painful crash I have ever had....
Rider looked so far off the back for needing to take pedal strokes to speed up between hits. Probably didn't help anything. One lucky SOB to land that the way he did. Thought for sure that was a face auger / broken neck the way he took off.
Gfromars: too slow a rebound did cause an endo for me once. I was rolling a 3 foot rock drop with a flat landing. My boxxers compressed fully when my front wheel landed and I did a slow mo endo. Sped up the rebound, did the same drop again and again, and never happened since. I felt the difference right away, just when I felt like I was about to go over, the boxxer pushed me back upright when the rebound was fast. The one time when the rebound was slow my handlebars never pushed me back up and I flipped.
The crash obviously had to do with the sized up frame, bars being too narrow, not wearing gloves, SPD instead of flats, non26" wheels, and damping/dampening/dampering. Hmm Rebound is a new one... Good job keeping us on our toes Pb!
Geez the only thing missing is a mathematical formula or forensic data to more intricately dissect the cause of the dude's crash. He was shredding hard and took a tumble... it's called pushing your limits. Bravo for rolling out like a ninja!
He so damn lucky to get away with it like that !
Looks like he realised half way over he needed to rotate more or he's gonna snap his neck , scary shit man
Like the time I endo'ed over the side of the trail, would up - upside down on the cliffside, held up by some brush, with close to a sheer drop of approx. 40' below my now upside down body (bicycle above me)...needless to say, I was pretty damn lucky.
@ledude: I've done the same. Totally ****ed a few foot wheelie drop right next to a big sheer drop. One stumble, and the next thing I knew, I was falling backwards, head first, over the edge. A fortuitously placed vine(massive one) is all that saved me from certain injury, or possibly worse. Sometimes you don't fully realize the magnitude of risk until you're knee deep in it.
Looked at the vid again, he actually doesn't endo till the front wheel gets locked up when it hits the downtube. I'd say the blame is more the fork than the frame. If the fork hadn't flexed so much that the front wheel hit the downtube, then the downtube wouldn't have bent, and the front wheel wouldn't have locked up... and he might have rode it out. Here's a BMX example of flex causing endo... www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMBfGaOVc2k
Could've been worse... Had a similar thing happen on the east coast except worse. Went off a 10ish foot rock drop that I'd hit plenty of times... Didn't think to check the landing since it looked fine. Turned out it was 5-6 inches of crazy thick "mud-sand"... The moment my front wheel made contact I came to a dead stop and face planted SO HARD. I was so concussed I started doing jumping jacks to make sure my body wasn't broken.
Oh don't worry about that! The frame he was riding actually came out of an original "press" run of twenty frames. Soon after the crash, Kona discovered that the frame was not made to their specifications. Yeti... I mean Kona, have now fixed things
hm....someone seems happy with that 'endoscopy'. Did that stick come from where I think it did?
Last time i went OTB, my handle bars clipped a chain link fence on the trail. Was already booking it and boom! Everything went slow mo...and then a hell of a lot of pain.
gnarly endo flip crash! Glad he rolled out ok....I ride flats just so I don't have that happen when riding aggressive. You can see he's clipped in still which causes the front flip OTB...cant just open your legs and bail/jump over the bars.
i remember the days when i could bail like that and walk away unscathed... if that happens to me now, i am out of commission for 6 months and have permanent reoccurring pain haha
I did that same sh1t about a month ago except I took a nap. Concussions are a bitch. Just getting back on the bike. Actually posting this from the trailhead pit toilet...
Glad he was ok, and love how he grabs on to a little stick after the tumble! Rider reflex maybe, looking for the bars still. Nice vid, riding and tune.
An excellent advertisement for flat pedals. Although if he was clipped in the bike might have rotated him right round! Danny Mac would have landed it...
Oh wow, you're right! Madness, he really is lucky then. Clearly I need to be crashing at higher speeds to stop the bike tomahawking me in the back of the head when I go over the bars....
It's really, really hard to punch out of clipless when you're fully extended like that. Nearly all of the twisting motion has to come from your hips, which is very difficult to do. "Learning how" doesn't have much to do with it.
He was committed to trying to ride that one either way, didn't really have any intention of bailing. Props for that I guess. Got real lucky.
Even if the header wouldn't hint at the crash, you more or less see it coming. His facial expression says it all. Looks pretty nervous and tense throughout the vid. You can tell he's not necessarily confident in his riding. He does however make up for it with the classic "Instant-Post-Crash-Smile". That's proof he's got the proper mindset after all.
Don't get me wrong here. That's just my, well very subjective observation. I couldn't ride like that even if my life depended on it. If I wasn't wearing a full-face helmet I'd probably resemble a rather hectic little raccoon (don't ask) in full panic mode, that's trying to catch the bus or something.
Going nose heavy especially when you know there is a log lying in the transition. Takes young buck confidence and luck. That log probably saved him from landing on the top of his head.
Bam Bam aka Bronsolini aka Action Bronson dropping gems like
'I had dreams of fuckin' Keri Hilson in my Duncans
Woke up naked at the Hilton with a bitch that look like Seal's cousin'
Can never be a bad thing
Dialed
-barely used Pike, never bottomed out
-halfshell helmet with small scratch on top
Or just take one regular 26" trail bike and take the hit like a dude.
Better adjust that rebound!
And wear a full face with neck brace...
still with the "gay"?
edit : I should have read other comments
good video, though.
Like the time I endo'ed over the side of the trail, would up - upside down on the cliffside, held up by some brush, with close to a sheer drop of approx. 40' below my now upside down body (bicycle above me)...needless to say, I was pretty damn lucky.
Rubberside down!!
looks pretty bent to me
No? I'll get my coat.
Last time i went OTB, my handle bars clipped a chain link fence on the trail. Was already booking it and boom! Everything went slow mo...and then a hell of a lot of pain.
lol.
sick line, only one better is.........
rockin very loose pants.
the o.g. song from 1974 is badass too.................
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV_HB0CTlRQ&index=182&list=PLEFFF135A76810760
smooooooooth.
He was committed to trying to ride that one either way, didn't really have any intention of bailing. Props for that I guess. Got real lucky.
personnaly I m crying at that speed
26in where the f**k are you?