Video: Friday Fails #265

 I was just thinking that too

 Exactly my thought - this has to be one of the more brutal weeks I can remember!

 Nice see someone owning up to one!

 Fortune takes no prisoners

 Yikes. Is that Uberpunch?

 You ragdolled on that second ledge. It looked like your bike was handling you.

 @bishopsmike: no Cosmic Girl ending double drop, about 3-4 stories high... last drop sent me 17ft. down...

 @JohanG: definitely... did it a couple days prior, but second time in, was off by 6" to the right.. compression bucket me sideway and in my head I was recovering but back tire had another idea...

 That opening clip might be a tie. Alot of bark came off that tree

 @MauiMax: Came here to make that comment

 Yeah I was going to say the same thing. Talk about hit the ground running with that first crash. Or I mean hit a tree while riding. This week's compilation was seasoned with extra violence start to finish!

 Yeah. Lots of I’m hurt moans this week.

 OMG…. 1:38 was as brutal a faceplant as I’ve ever seen.

 So I shouldn't just let my Ibis do the job?

 'You are far less capable than the Bike!'

 @Phyaller: Sorry, I tried to upvote you but my fat finger slipped!

 Surprising number of bikes this week ping-ponging end over end down the trail ahead of the victim.

 Holy ejection seat..!

 Well, after those falls, I'd say: a lot.
No way all these riders got out of this without some very serious harm.

There comes a point where you have to ask yourself if it is still worth it, to take these kind of risks. I can tell you this: if I rode that kind of trails, had a nasty fall but somehow could walk away from it, and my girlfriend saw footage of it, she would probably break my legs herself.
If there's guys with kids in this video, they are stupid, selfish pricks.

And all this is solely because bikes have gotten 'better'. More and more suspension, dropper posts, mega wide bars, plus tires, disc brakes… they all just make trails that used to be fun and challenging now seem very boring and easy. So the trails and the obstacles have to get gnarlier and bigger. It's a dumb rat race.

I am happily still riding my '94 mtb (now converted to a monstercross bike), and I am having a blast on our local trails. Small jumps, going through turns as hard as my technique allows me, it's plain and simple fun, and if I fall, I can walk away from it with a bruised ego and some scrapes and bruises, and that's it.

 @WhateverBikes: Trails have changed a lot too. These high speed flow trails with gaps are a relatively new thing. Back in the day, the trails were more natural and didn't come with that kinetic energy component of a crash. Plus, of course, we didn't have Brandon Semenuk making jumps look so easy.

 @iamamodel: That's what I meant with 'so the trails and the obstacles have to get gnarlier and bigger'.
I like a flowy, specially made for biking kind of trail once in a while, but I do like it better to go exploring, and ride the trails that were there before mountain biking became popular.

 I don't find it that funny.

 @seraph: cracked me up!

 Yeah, see a ton of my local PNW trails in this one.

 That was me! It’s an old one though, before the trail was redone by evegreen.

 The flying bikes are due to sprung mass becoming unsprung mass.

 And dentists. Those face plants were brutal

 You spelled 'stupid' wrong.

 @WhateverBikes: Fine line there.

 @gnarnaimo: A fine line, clearly crossed.