Ouch, Freerider takes a big crash

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This is slightly off topic because it’s a bike crash. I hope he’s going to be OK.

[seattlepi.nwsource.com] <http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/4pm/onsite.asp?url=/photos/photo.asp?PhotoID=13063&gt;

I don’t know if the above link will die at 8:00 PM Pacific Time today or not.

Here is the caption for the photo:

Mountain biker Darren Butler takes an 8-meter fall from a bluff above Kamloops, B.C., while riding for a film crew preparing a television series on the sport on Tuesday Aug. 27, 2002. Butler, 25, who is an experienced mountain bike free-rider, was taken to the hospital in Kamloops with serious injuries following the crash. (AP Photo/CP, Kamloops Daily News, Brendan Halper) (August 27, 2002)

Photo Credit: Associated Press

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RE: Ouch, Freerider takes a big crash

> This is slightly off topic because it’s a bike crash. I hope
> he’s going to be OK.
>
> [seattlepi.nwsource.com] <http://tinyurl.com/16ux>

Link still worked on Wed. morning. It’s a great shot visually, though it
indicates something nasty about to happen.

I wonder how the rider got into that position? He seems to have totally
given up on riding the bike down. Why? Did he mentally bail at the last
moment, or did he take the wrong line coming off the cliff? Maybe he had
some sort of problem before the bike got to the cliff. Judging by the
location of the photographer, he was intending to ride down somewhere
around there.

JF

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hope he doesn’t break his neck :smiley: :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

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Grr…

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Re: Ouch, Freerider takes a big crash

john_childs wrote:
>
> This is slightly off topic because it’s a bike crash. I hope he’s going
> to be OK.

Wow! Me too.

A picture IS worth a thousand words (all expletives).

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Re: RE: Ouch, Freerider takes a big crash

In the Just Conversation forum Jagur mentioned that it looks like his seatpost may have bent. If that happened while he was heading for the takeoff I can see how he could loose control.
<http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19978&gt; [unicyclist.com]

That looks like one of the drops in New World Disorder I or II. There is a steep landing area just to the right of the picture. You have to clear the flat area where the photographer is standing to get to the landing area.

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http://www.freeride-entertainment.com/videos/video_freewheel.html

As we get further off topic, here’s a clip of Disorder III.

Anyone know of any uni-scenes in this one?

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That is one totaly insane vid, one which i hope to the the full version of.

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here’s a good update

http://pinkbike.com/story.php3?id=897