Ooooohh!

Pufftmw

Came across this short vid on another forum. Its a bloke trying the big rock at the new Darvagh Trails in Northern Ireland but he's nervous and not committed so the inevitable happens

Just listen to the spectators!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZKUczcdwc4#

Cracks me up

bennett_346

Haha what a fool, if he just let go of the brakes that would of been easy!

Looks a fun trail.

bluechair84

Did a great job of two wheel sliding down the face if you ask me! Just needed the skill to pop the front wheel of the final drop.

cooldad

Scary slippery rock. I bet most people, except obviously for the riding gods above, might have struggled.
I would probably have been sensible (read major coward) and gone round.

bennett_346

bluechair84 wrote:

Did a great job of two wheel sliding down the face if you ask me! Just needed the skill to pop the front wheel of the final drop.

You reckon? He was doomed to fail the second he set off down it by the looks of it! Didn't take a good line, was all over the place and didnt understand how to move his weight back.

WindyG

Funny vid, well the unison response at the end is :-)
I don't think I would have the bottle to even attempt that, getting to old for that.

bluechair84

bennett_346 wrote:

bluechair84 wrote:

Did a great job of two wheel sliding down the face if you ask me! Just needed the skill to pop the front wheel of the final drop.

You reckon? He was doomed to fail the second he set off down it by the looks of it! Didn't take a good line, was all over the place and didnt understand how to move his weight back.

Clearly the guy is a beginner, I dip my cap to anyone willing to give something a shot. You don't learn by playing it safe, you learn by crashing. I thought he did all right for someone doomed to fail.

bennett_346

I'm not knocking the guy for giving it a go, as you say you crash you learn

mcnultycop

I would expect if I tried that I'd have similar results.

bluechair84

Looked pretty daunting just from the side lines... and cameras always reduce a feature's difficulty by 10 gnars.

Northwind

Quite impressed he made it to the bottom tbh, he shouldn't have been sliding around like that but keeping it upright took some skill and nerve.

scarbs85

bluechair84 wrote:

... and cameras always reduce a feature's difficulty by 10 gnars.

Agreed 110%!

Always disappointing to ride a feature or trail, then look it up on youtube. Most of the time, it looks like you could ride it on your Grans shopper complete with wicker basket.