Anyone remember the Austin Skills Clinic Crash?
- Thread starter sanjuro
- Start date
yes, I'd like to see it again too. It's a classic xc race style "who me get out of the saddle?" kind of thing.sanjuro said:
gg
Eukerholm stacked it good on that one!!
This is clearly a case where the use of a 29er would have prevented such a horrible mishap.....
gotta have the skills to pay the the bills!
I could watch that over and over. Doesn't look like that hard of an obstacle either.
I don't even see how you could possibly flip over that.
Unless your front brake was possessed by demons,
and locked up on its on.
Unless your front brake was possessed by demons,
and locked up on its on.
Euker actually used a small J-peg of the stack as his sig over on MOJO. There was endless discussion on how this happened. Hello Kitty revealed himself to be a tool. It was fun.
rideit said:
There was some quality posts in that thread.... so much so that I bookmarked it...
Here ya go: http://www.bikemojo.com/speak/showthread.php?t=42166
It is a bigger drop than it looks.WSU DH'er said:
Thanks N8 for the original thread. I like this post: bikemojo link, where he blames his fork for the crash:N8 said:There was some quality posts in that thread.... so much so that I bookmarked it...
Here ya go: http://www.bikemojo.com/speak/showthread.php?t=42166
I guess being off the front of the saddle had nothing to do with it...
Just for clarification, he was not 'teaching' a skills clinic. He was among the students.sanjuro said:
The drop is not huge, but it is at just the right height to catch the front wheel if you roll it too slowly.
...and in case you don't want to wade through the 20 pages of posts, the general consensus was that 'he grabbed a handful of brake' (which is now a common punchline on Mojo).
eric
Thanks for the correction about the teacher/student.druber said:Just for clarification, he was not 'teaching' a skills clinic. He was among the students.
The drop is not huge, but it is at just the right height to catch the front wheel if you roll it too slowly.
...and in case you don't want to wade through the 20 pages of posts, the general consensus was that 'he grabbed a handful of brake' (which is now a common punchline on Mojo).
eric
No need to analyze it for me though. I am reading through the posts, and getting a good laugh that way. I especially like this response about how this bikemojo thread made it Ridemonkey:
http://www.bikemojo.com/speak/showpost.php?p=481978&postcount=123
loco said:
sanjuro said:
loco loco's....
It was she who brought it out of there...
Drop? I don't see a drop.Wumpus said:
You mean it's bigger than the 13" it actually is? Is it like a 10 Pinkbike foot drop?
The guy made a mistake on a tiny roller. That's all.
It must be hell for him to ride through the city with all those curbs.
Have you ridden there? I have, and it is bigger than it looks in the pic.justsomeguy said:
Funny how nobody was ever a newb and has never made a silly mistake.
sanjuro said:
I never said it wasn't funny.
So the video has been altered? It clearly shows the "drop" as slightly taller than his hub when his wheel first touches the ground.Wumpus said:
Who has made that claim?Wumpus said:
justsomeguy said:
Looks like the top of his front wheel is about even with the bottom of the rear.Attachments
Look again. The distance from the ground to the top of the tiny ledge that his wheel rolled of is hub high. In your frame grab his rear wheel is still back on the 4" micro droplet that preceeds the final immense drop.Wumpus said:
Either way, it's small, even by Pinkbike standards.
Whatever.justsomeguy said:
BTW, from my viewpoint, everything was wrong about that, from his bike setup, to his position, to the trickiness (for a beginner) of getting on a ledge only to drop a foot on the other side, to the nice guy who published this video in the first place.
sanjuro said:
I see that kind of riding a lot, XC riders ( yes, I'm one of them) mostly racers but not always ( I'm not one of them) who keep the saddle really high, and do not get the concept of changing CG for technical work. I know some guys who crash a lot, and they really bristle at the suggestion to at least get their ass off the saddle back if they aren't going to lower the saddle a bit.
gg
I've ridden that drop a hundred times with no issue, but it is tricker than it looks, the angle on that one is off.
The only time I ever endo'd on it was while I was starting to go over it and Druber told his buddy "you can pretty much take any line except the one he is taking."
I always used that line and there is nothing like a split second moment of indecision to throw you over the bars.
The only time I ever endo'd on it was while I was starting to go over it and Druber told his buddy "you can pretty much take any line except the one he is taking."
I always used that line and there is nothing like a split second moment of indecision to throw you over the bars.
Thanks but i've NEVER f'ed up like thatthe Inbred said:
1 bent bike
1 broke helmet
1 concussion
1 separated shoulder
20th place of 30
right click, save as, please
http://www.pedalmasher.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=0&func=download&filecatid=11
He sure has a nice bike and fashionable riding clothes for a "newb".Wumpus said:
Other people's pain is funny.
I fell of my bike once with one foot on the ground, stopped and talking to someone. Result? Funny.
Trying to justify the massive size of that trail curb and the intense diffuculty of rolling down it is even funnier.
kidwoo said:
that video is from a skills clinic, and that's the guy leading the clinic in the crash. Not exactly a noob.
geargrrl said:
Which is why I said he sure has a nice bike for a newb......implying that he might actually in fact not be a newb. Thank you for contributing to "state the obvious" theatre. I'm glad I felt I must also contribute.
irony newb
Eric was NOT leading the ride, and he WAS a NOOB. Just one with money.