[norbar]

Anyone seen that vid of him crashing on the stairs in China?

The whole event seemed a bit strange with them going slowly on straight 45 degrees stairs and and it seemed someone had to crash. Sad to see Kelly kill himself and his bike again.

http://www.vitalmtb.com/videos/member/Kelly-McGarry-Crashes-Hard-in-China,28917/iceman2058,94

On the bright side he might have accidentally invented a new headtube standard

 

[Trekrules]

Another video including Mcgarry's crash
http://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/opmerkelijk/999-treden-naar-beneden-racen-een-halve-minuut

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Jesus.

 

[squiby]

"I'm all good, munched my foot a bit and got two cuts on arm totalling 7 stitches."

This proves it. These "free riders" are in fact a gang of rogue mutants!

 

[TrumbullHucker]

Yt introduces new standard 75* HA angle

But seriously..heal up kelly.. i still can't put my head around this redbull event

 

[Uncle Cliffy]

What a dumb event. Glad it wasn't worse for him.

 

[slyfink]

what brand bar and stem? That's a ridiculous impact. I hope RedBull does a sanity check after this event, that could have been disastrous...

 

[norbar]

what brand bar and stem? That's a ridiculous impact. I hope RedBull does a sanity check after this event, that could have been disastrous...

Looks like FSA Gravity series. So catalogue stem

 

[Nick]

what brand bar and stem? .

Never mind that ... what brand brakes completely failed and pulled to the bar 30 seconds into a descent?

 

[Uncle Cliffy]

Never mind that ... what brand brakes completely failed and pulled to the bar 30 seconds into a descent?

He borrowed Gwin's brakes from 2012.

 

[norbar]

Never mind that ... what brand brakes completely failed and pulled to the bar 30 seconds into a descent?

Saints but I doubt that happens consistently.

 

[commencaldh]

those rotors look quite nice

 

[TrumbullHucker]

Saints but I doubt that happens consistently.

is that electrical tape on the tire near the presta valve?

 

[dump]

is that electrical tape on the tire near the presta valve?

Looks like some kind of tape masking the tire brand. Nustyle sharpie?

 

[norbar]

those rotors look quite nice

Standard XT rotors, They are good, not that expensive.

 

[norbar]

 

[slyfink]

whose arms are those? You'd think he would have known his arms were broken and wouldn't have writtten "I'm all good, munched my foot a bit and got two cuts on arm totalling 7 stitches."...

 

[4130biker]

whose arms are those? You'd think he would have known his arms were broken and wouldn't have writtten "I'm all good, munched my foot a bit and got two cuts on arm totalling 7 stitches."...

yeah, weird... and isn't that a two x-rays of the same arm?

 

[jonKranked]

china is behind the times. riding stairs is huge there. they must have just gotten their first copies of kranked 2.

 

[commencaldh]

Standard XT rotors, They are good, not that expensive.

do you know if they have them in 160mm size

 

[Nick]

do you know if they have them in 160mm size

yes they come in 160, 180 & 203mm.

 

[commencaldh]

sweet what reliable site should i order them off of

 

[Toshi]

yeah, weird... and isn't that a two x-rays of the same arm?

Two views, more or less perpendicular. This is standard.

 

[Metamorphic]

This event makes me think of X-games MTB on snow, circa 2000. Somebody thought it would be cool but it raised more eyebrows than stoke levels....bummed for Kelly! Heal up fast.

 

[StabprimoMonkee]

Does anybody else feel like Atomlab is trying to murder McGarry?

 

[6thElement]

I'm still looking at the deformed headtube. The wheel exploding on the flat landing isn't that surprising, I've never seen broken bike pics with a HT like that though.

Strong welds, butter alloy HT?

 

[jackalope]

While I agree the HT is moderately damaged, I don't think its anything moar shimz™ couldn't fix. Perhaps even some crabon shimz since it will be protected from UV devastation.

 

[jstuhlman]

i thought it was just their new no-angleset-necessary technology?

 

[StabprimoMonkee]

I'm still looking at the deformed headtube. The wheel exploding on the flat landing isn't that surprising, I've never seen broken bike pics with a HT like that though.

Strong welds, butter alloy HT?

It wasn't a landing to flat. Correcting for perspective it had to be reasonably steep. Also the damage to headtube is only because the wheelset collapsed and fork plowing into stone leveraged the frame.

Seriously, go watch Rampage... The way wheels break under him is scary. And I reckon it is either Atomlabs or wheelbuilders fault.

 

[gemini2k]

Seriously, go watch Rampage... The way wheels break under him is scary. And I reckon it is either Atomlabs or wheelbuilders fault.

These incidents are so far outside the designed use case. It's hard to draw meaningful conclucions from equipment failure here. Even moto wheels can't handle 20-30ft drops to flat (ish). There so much more going on then simple unaxial loads as well. You really have no idea what kind of forces were imparted on those wheels and headtube in these kinds of hits from grainy videos hundreds of feet away.

 

[norbar]

whose arms are those? You'd think he would have known his arms were broken and wouldn't have writtten "I'm all good, munched my foot a bit and got two cuts on arm totalling 7 stitches."...

Maybe I'm wrong. Local news portal posted this.

 

[jackalope]

Hmm...his rims are aluminum...the YT frame is aluminum...they were both exposed to sunlight. Perhaps UV rays are more potent than we originally thought.

Btw, wasn't Kelly on a DB8 at Rampage? If so, I guess I missed the announcement he got picked up YT.

 

[jstuhlman]

I suspect that the massive weight of his hair and its associated products is giving him so much momentum that any conventional product simply can't stop the freight train once it gets rolling...

 

[yd35]

Hmm...his rims are aluminum...the YT frame is aluminum...they were both exposed to sunlight. Perhaps UV rays are more potent than we originally thought.

Btw, wasn't Kelly on a DB8 at Rampage? If so, I guess I missed the announcement he got picked up YT.

Major bonus points for the Richmond gif!