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Extreme Bike Face-Plant

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  1. Face down at the bottom of the stairs, and carried off in an
    ambulance. That is how this little bike stunt ends:
    http://notsafeforkids.com/?page_id=147

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    C J Viral said:

    Face down at the bottom of the stairs, and carried off in an
    ambulance. That is how this little bike stunt ends:
    http://notsafeforkids.com/?page_id=147

    An oldie but a I-hope-he-recovered-ie.

    The kicker is that the bike purely failed under him, though that's a
    combo of an overambitious drop to a flat landing point (stupid kid!).
    The stunt might have been doable with better technique, but in the
    slow-mo, it looks like the bike lands pretty squarely and upright, and
    then simply collapses. The post-mortem didn't seem to show frame damage,
    but losing the front tire and wheel like that would have been enough.
    From there, it was a short trip to pavement-land.

    Kids: don't try this at home. You need a lot more stairs than you have
    at home to crash this hard.

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    Ryan Cousineau [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com/
    "In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
    "In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."

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