I want to know if a bottom out like this is normal. It was harsh and imo ruined the landing for me, even if there are some improvements that can be made to my body position. The bottom out occured immiately and in a fraction of a second. here is a post with pictures of the landing and initial compression
by ThatLoser618
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Normal? I guess we would have to know what kind of equipment your using and the amount of weight on the bike at that large of a jump. It’s hard to tell if it’s your fault or the bike from that video. Do you often hit drops that large and have this kind of issue?
Slipped a pedal.
Pizza’d instead of French Frie.
The bottom out is normal if you were using normal settings for the fork and shock, if you wanna ride this kind of feature you need to up the pressure everywhere imo
And to prevent the crash with the bottom out I guess bracing really really hard was the only option but eh that’s a lot of force lol
Your foot came off and you fell forward …. Then You couldn’t recover . Pretty simple.
Not sure but it looks like you clipped your left pedal on the ground as you first landed and then a second time when you rebounded.
Try and absorb it more with your legs as well.
Seat was fully up, not able to use your legs to cushion and brace the impact. Stayed tall during the landing so had a high center of gravity instead of low and leaned back. Don’t actually see your feet slip off like other comments say, but could imagine this impact causing that to happen. You almost rode it out too. Hope you’re alright!
Legs were pretty straight when landing. Instead of staying centered, absorbing with your legs and pushing with your arms to stay centered you collapsed forward.
Need to muscle through that bottom out.
you landed pretty well, (read first, but it doesn’t matter so much) and then, your arm (you?) were not prepared for that force, you didn’t lose pedals or handlebar.
https://preview.redd.it/iebgyos5kynh1.png?width=285&format=png&auto=webp&s=2d494d0496891e2bdaa0d0b922e2aa82ab0b557f
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you could maybe add some pressure (or compression damping) when you ride bigger features or bikepark (especially if you setup your bike for less aggressive trail riding usually) – but this wouldn’t stop your crash.
I can bottom out my Fox40 when I land too far (not on a nice downslope), and yes, your arms have to take it, but it doesn’t mean I have to put more pressure in my fork.
I might be off base here… but it seems to me like your body was pretty stiff during the landing.
In the picture your suspension is fully bottomed out.. but your elbows/knees seem like they haven’t moved much all to absorb.
Imagine landing this on a fully rigid bike.. same thing applies to a full suspension.. just with more room for error.
You also seem to have gotten a bit unlucky and landed on what looks like possibly the flattest part of the landing..
I’d say your weight was a little far back and your rebound at the back was a bit fast. Too much front brake on landing threw your weight forward. The back end kicked up and there was no saving it because your weight was over the front
That’s a pretty sick crash dude!
Are you ok? Looked pretty rough crash .
That all started with the bottom out and foot coming off. Another thing maybe to look in to, swap to a bum bag rather than a rucksack, I did this as it helps keep the weight low. A bag when heavy can make you top heavy.
I think your body weight/position on the bike is too high and forward when you land.
Next time you ride it try keeping your hips further over the back wheel until you land. This will help the bike stay stable during the impact of landing.
Hope this helps!
Is that the name of a Thursday song?
Dropping form aside, all of that was salvagable at every point, but you panicked and tried to regain control instead of riding it out. Should have gotten back, released the brakes, and ridden until stable, instead of trying to panic stop
You do look stiff and essentially were relying on the suspension to bail you out. The bigger the feature the more conscious need to be of absorbing the impact. Also kind of looks like your arms/grip on the bars failed before your legs gave out which pitched you forward. Looser legs would’ve fixed that too.
Also, is it possible you touched your brakes? Hard to tell but kind of looks like as you were going over you grabbed a bit of front brake.
The runout after this drop looks rutted out so could be you went in a rut too. I really thought you were gonna ride it out for a second.
Looks like you were just along for the ride on that one, kudos for committing but I think you weren’t ready for the landing. As far as suspension settings go, you’d need to hit features or drops often to know if your setup is a little out of whack or off from what you want.
Are you hitting that thing in running shoes?!
Proper flat pedal shoes could have helped but a more aggressive position would have helped more.
Ouchy