Video: Friday Fails #65

 I don’t do insta story is the new “I’m vegan”

 @WAKIdesigns: I'm so guilty

 the state of some of the jumps is shocking and where in the hell was rocket man expecting to land at 2.25?

 @WAKIdesigns: no its not.

 @markbe: He was just scoping out where to build the landing

 Where that bolder came from?

 @inonyme: He had just stolen a golden statue but it was booby trapped by a large bolder that was released when he removed it. We just caught the last several moments of the video where he failed to out run it.

 @inonyme: Nine times out of ten it’s Willie Coyote

 @oldfaith: Wyle E. Coyote, Esquire to you good sir.

 The only Arabic word I know is La. It means no.

 @inonyme: meteor

 @bizutch: Wyle E Coyote, Esquire, Genius I believe

 @inonyme: It was the rock he rolled over when he otb'd.

 @oscartheballer: Wyle E Coyote, Esquire, Super Genius. It has a nice ring to it.

 love seeing a dumbass who didn't strap their helmet tight have it fly off

 put your strap on, on...

 @rpinney206: hahaha

 Hope helmet has Wavecell.

 Happens pretty much every week as well. Its insane to me how people will actually put the helmet on, yet just not take the extra 3 seconds to buckle/secure it.

Its like mentally they understand that helmets are good, and so they should have one on. But somehow don't grasp the fact that if things go wrong, it won't just stay on because its "snug" right now.

I guess we went from helmets being "uncool" years and years ago, to buckled helmets being "uncool"now? Progress I guess? Give it another 20 years, and finally buckling the helmets will be cool?

 @ocnlogan: Well, at least that guy learnt his lesson and will buckle up from now on. Or he, simply, will not.

 Yeah. I think that the must figure that the helmet is tight enough that a strap isn’t needed. Just about every week you see some ding dong crash and immediately remove the helmet indicating no strap.

 This crash is mine :p firstly this is test jump to know where landing should be.. Secondly my strap Just tore apart while i crash and finally this jump is really small - no fear even with crash ????

 @patrykfr:
Yikes. I've never heard of a strap tearing apart/breaking like that. Sounds unlucky . Maybe its time to invest in one that should stay on better. Personally I wouldn't have much confidence in it anymore after that.

Glad to hear you're ok though. And, whats more, you're sending stuff that still scares me, so props for that as well /

 "The Producer"!

 yep. Mellowest lip of the run at that.

 Pretty high on the list. GLC drop was better for that, and you can't top crashing into the bike wash station at the bottom in front of 300 people.

 @twd953: Bike wash station ftw!

 @rrolly: never thought of that one. If I had while there, it would have been like a tractor beam if I'd thought about it once.

 @bizutch: you could probably have jerryoftheday footage for insta every half hour.

 I’m almost positive I watched that from the chair...

 @twd953: Even better than watching the GLC carnage was the first weekend of the step up feature that replaced it. The lip was pretty steep and I think just while we were sitting at lunch/drinks we counted 13 dead sailor OTB's and they were gnarly. The kids that all wanted to be cool and train it let their not so skilled buddy go first and it was like a interstate pile up. Patrol got their money's worth

They mellowed the lip for the weekend after though.

 Also he wasn't enduro'd out with just knee pads and a fancy half shell. Full Face, hard pads and neckbrace etc etc. Dad knows what he is doing. Probably the most dangerous sport our kids will ever do, no reason to mess around and go cheap on the protection gear.

 @Svinyard: seems like he went cheap on cranks/BB axle though?

 @aps62: Ha maybe. SUPER hard to find kid's cranks in 125mm and 140mm length tho (20" and 24" bikes). OEM's just don't make them. TrailCraft cranks are amazing, tho they are nice and light weight...but maybe not designed to take a hit like that?

 @aps62: XTR bottom bracket, but still square taper is the only cranks in 115mm. This kid only gets hurt off the bike and is amazing to watch. Walked away from that, tightened crank up and did it again.

 That grom is a ripper.

 Yeah. I think he meant to say “these tiny mounds”. Must have gotten his words mixed up.

 That’s Elliot. He’s a beast, they just don’t make good cranks in a 115mm size

 At least one of those squeaks, if not both, was the good ol' stem twist.

 You would enjoy biking with me then. It would be very entertaining.

 Yaaaaaaaa Super happy! Thank you for noticing!

 

 Thank you Beer Beer

 Now I'm not a big air expert (I'm up to about 4ft on drops) so take this all with a giant grain of salt, but someone who instructed me said that landing in a way that you have to support your weight with your arms is the whole problem, i.e. that the landing should mainly be absorbed by the legs because that's what they're designed to do. Or maybe that's what you're saying and I'm misunderstanding.

 @DrPete: Sorry i wasn't more clear, I mean the same thing. Weight should generally be supported by the legs, not the arms.


Being strong or skilled would help these people, but the video still makes clear that riding a long reach, stretched over the front posture is just asking to introduce your sternum to your steer tube, for most people.

I've hit 100' jumps and 30' drops to transition and over shot some pretty big stuff to flat, and sometimes clobber boulders pretty hard head on. I have had a pretty high rate of "hold it together" in all sorts of adverse situations, much of which i would attribute to being in a low, centeral, balanced, strong, position, and being reactive instead of dead sailor.

if you dont believe me look at a mx race or bmx freestyle. they stand on the bikes, with their feet, sticking huge jumps. when mx are leaning forward its cause they are on the throttle hard. NO ONE even dh and slopestyle riders land with such pronounced weight on their hands.

 I thought the same.

 I was thinking it was Matthews Winters?

 Except so many of them could have gone only one way. ????

 @dbendixen: they went the way of the outcomes. I always try to look and anticipate the speed, what type of bicycle there Riding and the type of terrain. There's alot of variables. Karmic debt is a thing, laughing and taking these fail Fridays incessantly casual as a weekly dose of endorphins, is a low perception. These are videos for learning!

 I see what you did there.

 Everybody should ride mountain bikes.

 Or spell...

 @FisherFreerider: Sick...

 You were born with the knowledge and skills of how to jump a bike?