Riding Highline in Sedona first time. Roast, give your analysis and tips or just laugh at my fuckup.
by National-Offer8870
Riding Highline in Sedona first time. Roast, give your analysis and tips or just laugh at my fuckup.
by National-Offer8870
22 Comments
Looks like you corrected into a rock coming off a roller while your body was still high. (Body high, front wheel cranked over)
Usually the best way to get down a hill is not otb
Whatever you did the front wheel stopped cold so I would guess you put it in a whole / behind a rock that it couldn’t roll over. Where your body weight was and your steering control presumably had an impact.
When I have stuffed a wheel in a hole or tucked / jackknifed a wheel the OTB is over so fast it’s hard to know but I usually chalk it up to poor line choice / insufficient control of front wheel placement.
hard to tell, but you either grabbed a bit too much front break or you placed it poorly on landing and it got caught
Looks like you dropped the front wheel on the backside of a rock or enough of a flat spot it kicked back at you.
Might have been a combination of rolling too slow and hitting a rock,ledge or digging into a hole.
Hard to tell from that angle.
Looks like you french fried when you should have pizza’d.
What went wrong was your cameraman stopped filming
Leaning over bars too much, get your arse over the rear wheel and try not to touch the breaks till you have rolled out.
It look like you did that drop well but when you absorbed the landing it brought too much of your weight too far forward. When that happens and you even gently hit the brakes, your momentum can carry you over the balance point. Now there’s no longer enough weight in the rear to keep it down, the front tire bites in and even a just a tiny bit of braking causes it to completely stop rolling, and then this happens… Your ability to slow down isn’t just dictated by how hard you’re pulling the brake lever but how much you can counteract your forward momentum during deceleration. It’s why braking on a mono cycle or unicycle is so tricky. That drop landing caused a perfect storm
Heels down, wrists rotated down when descending. I would rotate your brakes more moto position if possible.
Your heels should be down, very little weigh on your hands, all your weight on your legs.
Cameraman didn’t keep doing his fob. Plus it looks like your front wheel turned. Not sure if saddle was down or not because i only watched once due to camera work. 😁
edit: Oh .. Something stopped your front wheel. Maybe your hand on the brake in a panic squeeze, or a small ledge, rock, sand, stopped the bike, fully compressed the fork (which will make it bite harder), and chucked you OTB.
I think if you would have kept rolling over rocks instead of popping your front tire up you would have had it. You popped and placed your front tire in a bad spot without enough momentum imo
Jesus there’s so much bad advice in this thread.
Looks like you hit a rut or a rock and possibly grabbed too much brake.
Don’t “get over your back wheel”. Horrible advice unless you want to continue to go OTB.
Hit stuff like this in an attack position, push the bike down the drop with your body position lower over the crank, hit it with more speed.
Watch Pinkbikes “How to Bike” series for better explanations of all of this regarding drops.
Gravity
Low speed no roll over pebble go wheeeeee shoooooosh
You met an immovable object and it stopped you.
Too slow, arms too noodly
You crashed
“You fell down” – in the manner of Forrest Gump
Too slow also
From what I can see you have a very soft fork setup and a fast rebound on the rear shock which shifted your center of gravity over the bars and turns your bars to the opposite direction of the rock. This gives the effect of a horse that bucks.