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SAFETY BRIEFING.

  • Wear a helmet. Despite recent advances in medical science, brains still cannot be mended nor replaced.
  • Wear gloves or mitts. Hands often hit the ground first. Cuts and grazes invite infection and a hospital visit.
  • Wear eye protection, it only takes a twig or thorn to lose an eye. Crud catchers are a good idea in mucky weather.
  • When downhilling, for your own protection, allow plenty of space behind the rider in front.
  • Bring a bare minimum emergency tool kit and a spare inner tube.
  • Breakdowns are a bore. Plan not to have any by ensuring your bike is in perfect working order.
  • Punctures are also tedious. You can minimise them by fitting latex tubes, slime tubes or running tubeless tyres.

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early entry for crash of the year / comedy off

well i have finaly sorted out how to edit video.

here is a link to my crash on the first lap of mayhem this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gnqmoN9XPc

if you can't be bothered to watch the lot FF to 44 seconds.

the buzz noise is me hitting the guy in front first.

i will try and get a few more bits up on line over the next few days. more mountain mayhem and the interesting bits of my LEJOG thrash.

enjoy.

Re: early entry for crash of the year / comedy off

You Wally!
How about some fast downhill footage?

Re: early entry for crash of the year / comedy off

What happened there?

Re: early entry for crash of the year / comedy off

So rare to get footage like this (unless you're Clem), but what a gem.

What DID happen? You seemed to get away with hitting the blok in front and then you just went over!

PT

Re: early entry for crash of the year / comedy off

that bit of track was on an up hill, i just lost all forewards momentum trying not to trash his mech, then i did what you are not ment to do, look where you DON'T want to go, i wobbled on to those roots.....bang!

Posiden!

i have some fast footage of my last lap i am trying to sort. it is down to 9min55 seconds but "yousoddintube" thinks it is 16 mins and rejects it after 2 hours of processing and uploading. it may have to be a 2 parter.

also on that footage is a girl falling off in the same place as me so....i'm in good company?

so marks out of 10 for the crash? don't forget the quality sound affects.

Re: early entry for crash of the year / comedy off

Can't wait to see the new footage! If it's not too hard to edit, then some video of the single track sections would be great (ie. thru the woods on the first part of the lap, down the sketchy descent towards the end, as well as the descent back to the start/finish line)
As for your score, you're handicapped by the lack of blood or permanent reminder of the injury ... which means a score of 5/10, plus 1 for catching it on video = 6/10.
I think Chris is probably ahead on the crash of the year stakes, with his second crash at Mayhem worthy of 8/10.

Re: early entry for crash of the year / comedy off

But we only have Chris's word for it that he crashed, i supose the lap time was a bit of a give away.

i have a first draught of the lap on line, i'm not happy with how the quality has come out so i will do it again soon.

part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZQZx_7ZbK4&feature=channel
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKjrg-0nwfM&feature=channel

Re: early entry for crash of the year / comedy off

Pat AKA The jolly green giant
But we only have Chris's word for it that he crashed, i supose the lap time was a bit of a give away.

i have a first draught of the lap on line, i'm not happy with how the quality has come out so i will do it again soon.

part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZQZx_7ZbK4&feature=channel
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKjrg-0nwfM&feature=channel


haha - well, there's Chris's word for it, his slower than normal lap time, and a bit of blood ...

Video's are cool - you sure you didn't push that girl out of yr way in the 1st one?
Let us know if you manage to improve the quality

Re: early entry for crash of the year / comedy off

i must admit i had to watch the vid several times and i am still not 100% sure there was no contact, but at least she stepped off of the crash where as i was still attached to the bike when i hit the deck on the same roots.
i am going to try and reprocess the video on my home computer tonight which makes my works computer look like a whimp, that will get rid of the jerkiness, but the grainy blocky pic.....i recorded in 720p format and it looks fine on my pc, on youtube it looks Hmmmm, might be me might be them....i will update the links when i'm done.

fast last lap at Mountain Mayhem.

here is another crack at the Mountain Mayhem lap, it's got a bit more of the singletrack in it just for you Rich. i still don't know how i missed that tree on the run down the final hill before the finish, it may not show but i had both wheels off the ground leaning over as i went around that corner.

ther were a lot of lurkers on top of the hill too, and i noticed in MBR this month that one of their crew was proud that he made it in 1 min after the finish, can you spot him up there?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nEt0CWkHW4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRk3AJQpJ0Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TAJb_gWJaM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5KEsRIcEV0

Re: fast last lap at Mountain Mayhem.

Brilliant burp at 6 mins in part 1...

Dom