[TortugaTonta]

bikes didn't break, we jumped our stingrays with ape hangers and banana seats and I don't remember any breaking.

Kids these days don't have it so good..

 

[bicyclegreen]

The first two bikes were pos pacific $100 bikes.

Tough crashes though.

The last few, cased the jumps, and the bikes were split in 2.

 

[DirtBag]

They are all fairly nasty. One thing though about the last one. That kid should not have tried that. He had no helmet and could barely fit on the bike. If that was his dad filming that, shame on him.

 

[Arkayne]

I must be a bad person. I'm laughing my asssss off here.

 

[w00dy]

You're not the only one laughing. Nice post.

 

[skatetokil]

scurry

 

[iandude94]

in the second one the bike turns into batmans motercycle

 

[HBFR33R!D3]

first one kid takes a nasty faceplant

 

[cmc]

Fork snap is one of the worst kind of crashes you can have. Your hands are still stuck to your grips and it's straight to the face and neck without any hands or elbows out in front of you.

The Walmart bikes.... i can see.... But what forks were on that KONA ???

so yeah....BITD, i bent gt forks, mongoose forks, dyno, and haro bmx forks.... but rarely did they snap with no warning, never happened to me, (although it did happen.... if any of yall were into bmx circa 1993... remember the jeff crawn fork break to faceplant, broken neck and paralysis at SCRAP contest.... )

 

[TortugaTonta]

Scary thing is, if you spend 20 minutes on youtube, there are countless videos like those and most are broken on jumps that should never break a bike.

Come to think of it every broken bike video I have seen have been on small jumps.

Really makes me wonder how often you should replace parts for safetys sake. I have a friend that broke a handlebar once and now he replaces the bars on his bike every year regardless of crashes.

What do you guys think the actual life is on a dj fork? 2 seasons? 1,000 jumps?

This ones brutal...

 

[Axis]

Wow I guess I should break out the full face for raysmtb this year.

 

[mr.c]

haahahhahahhahahhahahahhahahahhahahahahhahhahahahhahahhahahahah. T... timeout , im burnin.... my lungs are burnin

 

[Axis]

I was a kid whn stingrays came out too. I never saw anything like that... maybe bent forks and wheels exploding... sure bad wrecks but not actual bike failures like those and we were going bigger.

 

[joelalamo45]

if any of yall were into bmx circa 1993... remember the jeff crawn fork break to faceplant, broken neck and paralysis at SCRAP contest.... )

If I remember correctly, Jeff's forks were already bent and he was hammering them back straight. So he knew they were jacked up to begin with, right? I didn't know Jeff but I remember hearing about it from a buddy who was there.