Whale tail carnage. Don’t stop on a feature
Whale tail carnage. Don't stop on a feature
byu/No-Brilliant-5483 inMTB
by No-Brilliant-5483
Whale tail carnage. Don’t stop on a feature
Whale tail carnage. Don't stop on a feature
byu/No-Brilliant-5483 inMTB
by No-Brilliant-5483
24 Comments
If you see it from a MTB riders perspective, that’s bad.
But, if you pretend this is some sort of bowling, you kinda nailed it!
Like a deer in headlights
Hope you are okay. did you know each other?
who stops on a whale tail of all things lol. what was his plan to climb down with the bike?
Good chance he thought it was your fault too
This is why i can never just send it. If i cant see whats just over a rise or around a corner, im always slowing down expecting someone will just be standing there.
Damn it Sammy
If you bottle it, realise you have the speed wrong, or are trial running, where else do you expect people to stop? The void?
Copper Harbor!?
I mean, he did give you 1 second’s notice and frantically said “stop stop stop!” Is that not the international code for tree-stumping at the end of a whale tail?
Riding too close
Don’t hang out on a feature or in a landing but you’re the one with the poor choices here
Don’t expect everyone is as skilled as you, you’re too close.
I actually don’t necessarily agree here. “If you fucked up and are gonna crash just crash instead of stopping” is bad advice.
A Rollup is fine. He’s gotta communicate better get out of the way asap, don’t stop and then look back. Stop and get out of the way…. and you gotta be ready to stop. You have nearly as much times as he had after casing it to stop and yet rolled straight through him.
He had a business day to get out of the way too
Holy splinters batman!
Contrary to my Reddit name, I’ve kind of stopped riding mountain bikes all together. But with motorcycling I always leave a pretty large gap between me and the rider in front of me. These guys on sport bikes that take curves a few feet apart are just asking for trouble.
The fact that you knew each other and were following him in paints this in an entirely different light than the title of your post implies.
I think the real lesson here is don’t follow so closely that you can’t stop in time to not hit the rider in front of you if they need to bail on a feature at the last second.
He shouldn’t have stopped but you had time to prevent this
well, both in skiing and biking, I never follow that close to people going over/off features and usually call out “you clear?” or “am I good?” or something like that if I can’t see. what if he crashed in the landing area? etc.
guy has every right to stop if he thinks he can’t pull the feature off, he doesn’t have to injure himself for your IG points. maybe he could have gotten off faster, I don’t know, but this is like 95% on the guy filming.
Guy stops at the top of the escalator too?
Least confident rider to the back of the line please. And that can change day to day.
So dumb, there are much safer ways to scout a line. Like 15 years ago at Whistler ran into a couple idiots that decided to walk through D-1 and ended up sprocket stalling a guy’s back on top of a landing when it still had the step up after the hip. Luckily I hung onto it but doubt that guy was going anywhere but the hospital
I always give riders I don’t know (and aren’t following in) plenty of space. This one is on you. You can see him stop on the video. Poor awareness and not nearly enough space given. Hopefully lesson learned for you, although the title of your video makes me think not.
did you land serious front end heavy? cant tell from the second angle cause it half misses your jump up but your already riding the front wheel at that point.