Video: Friday Fails #264

 Watching this, sitting in my office on the trauma unit of a hospital, waiting for summer and bike season...

 @jsnfschr: Brace yourself. Park season is coming.

 misery enjoys company

 @gilpinmtbq: True story. As long as I don't end up here, we're good. Ending up as a patient on a unit of people I know who have to help with things like going to the bathroom might be my single biggest fear.

 Just got home from thr ER. Can barely walk, can't use my left arm.
Happy Saint Patrick's day!!!

Now, where did my luck of the Irish go? It's gotta be here somewhere...

 @gilpinmtbq: meathead summer here we come!!!!

 Lots of his riding mates int the video though!

 Why? Was there a spectatular crash involved, or what?

 @3.15 the way Scott jumped up and adjusted his shades in a nonchalant manner also made me chuckle.

 @commental: maybe Scotty doesn’t know [that he’s hurt yet]

 Concur - don't add MORE solid objects to hit when crashing. Damn

 I try not to crash,I guess that doesn't count?

 Yeah. That looked lethal.

 Skyler should stick to Grounder

 Bike - Skyler, 1 - 0.

 @pinkknip: Pies 0 - 1 Skylar

 YouTube shorts and other apps are all the rage in portrait unfortunately.

 I think that is Angry M in Squamish and I have no idea how that could happen. It is a very benign bridge to get over the climb trail.

 When you go off of a drop at slow speed, the front wheel drops off the lip while the rear wheel is still on flat ground.

In effect, the lip of the drop has now become a triangular obstacle in front of the rear wheel.

Since the front wheel is in free fall and the rear wheel now meets resistance, bike and rider rotate forward.

When the rotation is even faster than in this clip (and in some clips it is beyond belief how fast the rider goes ass over tea kettle), the rider is likely dragging their rear brake which compounds the problem.

The rider in this clip should have moved forward slightly and then shifted weight rearward as the front wheel left the lip. This suspends the front tire momentarily so that the rear tire encounters less resistance. As rider speed increases, less and less weight shift is necessary to momentarily suspend the front wheel. At high speeds, you won't need any weight shift.

 @JXN1: Not sure which clip you are watching (maybe the first one?), but there is no drop and no lip in the 0:11 clip. Roll down ramp, smooth transition to ground, invisible trail gnome flip.

 @ShawMac: Yep, meant the first clip. In the second clip, dude was dragging his brakes down the steep roll and encountered the baby head rocks at the bottom that are likely dusty and glass off. The front tire slides on these rocks then gets immediate traction on the dirt just past them. The riders full weight goes forward (you can see his heels come up meaning there is no weight on his pedals / rear wheel) and he packs into the bars. You can hear his fork fully compress and then see his front wheel turn until it is perpendicular to his direction of travel. This is the best moment of traction my man will ever get from a tire in his life! The jacknifed front wheel stops immediately and the whole shabangabang flips end over end like a goddam cartoon.

 Watched it frame by frame and I figured it out: he's a vampire-kin.
As soon as he passed into a patch of sunlight he wrecked.

 I believe I see some rocky matter padding out the end. He is not actively riding and the broken contour caught him off guard. I rewatched it a number of times cause it is amazing the random shit that catches us. Or it was just a trail gnome lying there.

 Kinda sounds like something snaps right before his weight goes forward and his wheel turns, looking at his feet I think the crank might have snapped

 To me it looks (and sounds) like something breaks on his bike right before all his weight goes forward sending his wheel off like that. Possibly cranks?

 Was wondering the same! Did it get caught in a rut at the bottom of the bridge?

 Yea