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<5fad6349-a1c6-46a9-b3bc-0cdcb8474a39@a22g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
C J Viral <
[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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