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Biggest Big Air, Biggest CRASH!

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I'll just cut and paste, this is something that happened to me this summer. So yesterday isn't yesterday but 3 month ago.

Here is a little something that happened to me yesterday when me and my friend went ride our downhill bikes. All week long I told my self I wanted to try that huge big air they added this year to the bike park and my friend said he would bring is camera. A lot of people i spoke to (who did it) said they tought they had to much speed but they ended short on the flat and bouncing to the landing. I told my self: " I'm gonna do it once but I'm gonna clear it." So at the end of the day we went get the camera and we got prepared.

The BIG AIR:
You take the biggest part of the speed you need from a drop of 9 feet (Top of landing) and then you pedal straight to the laucher. You gotta clear about 55 feet in distance to land in the landing.

Let's do it:
So i visualise what i'm about to do, take a deep breath and start pedaling. At that moment all I think is don't touch the brake even if you think you're to fast. I droped the drop but cleared a big part of the drop's landing so it was like a 12 feet drop. As soon as I landed and felt I was stable, I started pedaling the **** out of my bike. In a fraction of second I stoped pedal, my bike got on the launcher and I was in the air. I wasn't worried about pitching forward or backward but I never tought about losing my pedals. Cuze when I arrive to the launcher, I had so much speed my rear suspension bottumed and It trew me over my bike.

Has soon I knew I lost the pedals and I was gonna go over the handbar, I stretched my arm and my leg to stablalize. I tought I could extend really quick to stabalize and then bring back to bike and catch the pedals again. I never got the time to do so but right before hiting the end of the landing, I placed the bike under me to absorb a bit of the impact and then i rolled about 4-5 time on the ground.

I got extremely lucky of how this ended. I got a few bruise but thats about it. My full face helmet broke in 3 piece and saved me from having a KO.

Here are those photo. I hope you enjoy them.

sorry for my english by the way.
http://p1.pinkbike.com/photo/2550/pbpic2550552.jpg
http://p1.pinkbike.com/photo/2550/pbpic2550556.jpg
http://p1.pinkbike.com/photo/2550/pbpic2550558.jpg
http://p1.pinkbike.com/photo/2550/pbpic2550561.jpg
http://p1.pinkbike.com/photo/2550/pbpic2550563.jpg

I tryed to gather them in a sequence but i'm not really good at it. It gives a good idea of the total distance.
http://p1.pinkbike.com/photo/2550/pbpic2550040.jpg
2008-11-23 21:32:00

Author:
Unknown User


that looks painful2008-11-23 21:54:00

Author:
Frank-the-Bunny
Posts: 1246


Looks seriously fun. 2008-11-23 22:10:00

Author:
Killian
Posts: 2575


that looks painful

My helmet broke but my head was alright.
2008-11-23 22:32:00

Author:
Unknown User


Thats almost a clean superman
http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-snc1/v343/176/91/780035054/n780035054_4398266_1082.jpg
http://photos-e.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-snc1/v343/176/91/780035054/n780035054_4398324_7791.jpg
2008-11-23 22:37:00

Author:
Unknown User


thats a sweet trick to the above pics!

that was a insane jump! nice job those were some insane pics!
2008-11-23 23:08:00

Author:
Snrm
Posts: 6419


I tripped once, beat that.2008-11-24 02:24:00

Author:
Code1337
Posts: 3476


Good thing about that crash is I have to buy a new helmet and I can fit it with my bike haha. Just received my helmet 2 days ago.
http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v573/176/91/780035054/n780035054_4882102_6705.jpg
http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v343/176/91/780035054/n780035054_4398318_2596.jpg
2008-11-24 03:46:00

Author:
Unknown User


looks real nice there mate2008-11-24 03:49:00

Author:
Thee-Flash
Posts: 3154


Great stuff. I once had an of very similar to that. Only had the helmet as protection (I'm not quite as keen as you obviously are) and came off pretty hard. I was pretty lucky, got away with some pretty nasty grazes and a few cuts, but nothing permanently done to me. The bike didn't look so good though.

So I get up afterwards, straighten myself up, look up to where my girlfriend is to see if she's worried about me, or if she caught it on camera, and she's laughing. Awesome.

Nice pics too btw.
2008-11-24 07:31:00

Author:
flakmagnet
Posts: 1084


Great stuff. I once had an of very similar to that. Only had the helmet as protection (I'm not quite as keen as you obviously are) and came off pretty hard. I was pretty lucky, got away with some pretty nasty grazes and a few cuts, but nothing permanently done to me. The bike didn't look so good though.

So I get up afterwards, straighten myself up, look up to where my girlfriend is to see if she's worried about me, or if she caught it on camera, and she's laughing. Awesome.

Nice pics too btw.

Haha my girlfriend would have scream haha.
2008-11-24 16:28:00

Author:
Unknown User


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