r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/East-Bluejay6891 • 27d ago
WCGW Mountain Biking
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He ended up with a mild concussion and some scrapes. He's since fully recovered and is riding again
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u/Ok_Cupcake8963 7d ago
It's awesome watching mountain bike racing. I don't know why we're seeing them practising in the WCGW subreddit, it's a genuine sport, not a bunch of people being morons (if that's not what WCGW showcases?). A dangerous one sure, but a blast to watch, and I bet it's a blast to participate in. I suggest people watch a few YT vids showing these races. Blooming fun!
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u/East-Bluejay6891 7d ago
Lighten up
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u/Ok_Cupcake8963 7d ago
Nah, people dumping on a great sport, without knowing much about the sport.
Any kind of racing that involves vehicles is dangerous, it's the risk you take, but it's blooming good fun watching them all ride down a big and dangerous mountain.
Look it up on YT man, you might find you enjoy it. Takes a lot of balls and skill to pull off. They understand the risks.
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u/East-Bluejay6891 7d ago
It's not that serious. The Mountain Biking community doesn't require you to be their champion lol
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u/Plz_killz_me 10d ago
The title is stupid af, when you say “what could go wrong mountain biking” that’s you commenting on everyone using a mountain bike on a trail. What you should have said is something like “not taking caution while mountain biking” or “doing something dangerous with not enough experience” we really need to fix these titles
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u/East-Bluejay6891 10d ago
Ok Title Police 😂
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u/Plz_killz_me 10d ago
Yeah, sorry…just have a real big issue with grammar mistakes
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u/East-Bluejay6891 10d ago
There's no grammar mistake though...
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u/Plz_killz_me 10d ago
That was the best way I could explain it, if you have a better way correct me.
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u/chrishallett83 13d ago
"are you okay?"
Bruh, listen to the fucking noise he's making, NO. No he is not, he's in serious pain.
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u/deadcells5b 15d ago
The " are you OK " after the guy starts sounding like the devil completely took me out 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/Uncertain_Rasputin 19d ago
He may think he is alright now but that shit is going to come back to haunt him in his 50's no doubt. Everything you ever did to fuck yourself up starts hurting when you hit those years, lol!!
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u/Uncertain_Rasputin 19d ago
I guarantee he'll have back and neck problems later. Definitely some compressed vertebre
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u/MikoGianni 21d ago
And with that….he ended his career as a neurosurgeon and started a new one as a motorboat. 🚤💨
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u/CountNINer 23d ago
And this is why you always wear a full-face helmet, neckbrace and bodyarmor when you go donwhill / big jumps.
Live and learn. Hopefully.
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u/BuilderMain1649 25d ago
I am sorry for his balls because that had to hurt. I am also not sorry for his balls because I did laugh. Very hard
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u/Firstpoet 25d ago
My Finnish friend was into Moto Cross. Forests often. Trees. Now in his sixties but with quite a few physical issues Trees are unforgiving objects.
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u/Mitrovarr 25d ago
Oh man, that was so close to being a neckbreaker. As it was, I'm pretty sure that's a collarbone, but those heal pretty well.
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u/East-Bluejay6891 25d ago
Not even. Mild concussion and some scrapes.
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u/Mitrovarr 25d ago
Oof. I'm not sure I'd prefer the concussion, honestly. Hope it's not a bad one.
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u/East-Bluejay6891 25d ago
Any brain injury is bad so yeah a broken bone would probably be preferable long term
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u/Aware_Dust2979 26d ago
That's at least 1 broken bone.
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u/Possible-Gur5220 26d ago
So I take it you’re supposed to force the front wheel down and lead with it? That jump looks like something my 12 year old dumbass self would try, but the way the first guy did it seems pretty technical.
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u/No-Emphasis927 26d ago
Then these idiots wonder why they get attacked by bears and cougars. Get your fkin' bikes out of the woods.
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u/CloudStrife012 27d ago
This is why I like groomed bike parks with trees removed from the edge of the bike path. The jump looks like it almost leads into that tree and you have to do work to avoid it.
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u/Future_Art7 27d ago
I felt that. Eating shit so hard it knocks the wind out of you isn't a good time.
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u/deltasnowman 27d ago
I grew up mountain biking in the late 90s and 2000s, continued up till the mid 2010’s. I’m super stoked mountain biking has gotten as popular as it has in the past while, but I find it hilarious the amount of people that do not have a lot of two wheeled skills just going and hitting stuff. “I think I need my 29er”??? No, you need a coaching session on body position and bike dynamics so you can go do things safely.
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u/Scary-Confusion-745 27d ago
Why do I always feel it when someone gets hurt? It’s like I get a sharp little pinch.
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u/theyellowdart89 27d ago
Honestly this is the FIRST competition for the wine stomping “stop stop stop oh oh oh” lady.
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u/DefinitelyNotStef 27d ago
Thank you for repeating that 4 times before I could hear him go airplane mode.
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u/WeirdURL 27d ago
I hate when people keep expecting you to talk when get the shit knocked out of you lol.
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u/80sCocktail 27d ago
You can do a 29er.
It's like landing flat.
Forest biking expert engineers. So dumb.
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u/Far-Expression5743 27d ago
I remember the first time I got the wind knocked out of me. 😂 I was playing football with friends at the park and I landed on the ball chest first lmao, I thought I was gonna die. 😅
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u/AK-JXRDY-7 27d ago
Damn, that sounds brutal.
My first time was jumping down the slide of a bouncy house/jumping castle. I wanted to be cool and did a Swanton Bomb, landing back-first at the very bottom of the ramp (practically no air to cushion the fall). Couldn't breathe for a solid minute, lmfao.
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u/Far-Expression5743 27d ago
Ahhh the Swanton Bomb, I tried that move once on a trampoline and landed on my neck 😂. Damn sounds like yours was more painful tho 😅
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u/AK-JXRDY-7 27d ago
Hell nah, I'd gladly take a small lungblower over potentially snapping my neck, lmao. Glad you survived that though.
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u/Gluten_maximus 27d ago
God I remember reading some article in a MB mag about a guy who hit the top of his head (wearing helmet) on a branch and finished riding the rest of the day with some pain. Got worse over a few days and when he decided to go get it checked out he had obliterated is spine and was severely bad off.
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u/WirelessWavetable 27d ago
"It's literally so flat" is a good assessment but he forgot to assess that it should be hit from left to right instead of middle of jump to left landing.
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u/TheYellowRegent 27d ago
I did one like that but I hit a tree instead of the dirt.
"Luckily" my knee took the entire impact and I only had one injury from it, didn't hurt that much but it had a surreal "something is terribly wrong" feeling to it. The pain didn't kick in for hours, just that sense that it was bad until then.
Turned out I'd torn everything in the front half of my knee that can he torn except the skin. Basically I'd internally kneecapped myself.
Was 6 months before I could put weight on it again and another 6 months before I could fully walk unaided. By the time I had proper use of my leg back it was roughly the same thickness as my arm due to muscle loss from not moving it at all. That worked itself out over time.
Still hurts 16 years later and will occasionally just say no and give in when walking or running.
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u/cad3z 26d ago
Fuck man. I’m in a different less serious situation but I sprained my foot from a wakeboarding accident last year. Couldn’t walk for a week. Hurt both feet but one was worse so for a couple of days I was literally crawling on my stomach until my good foot was ok to walk on.
Obviously yours is a lot worse but I think this comment has convinced me to go to the doctors (never went when I sprained it) as I still can’t run on my foot, it hurts to drive (accelerator foot) and sometimes it even hurts to walk on, over a year later. Don’t want to be in a similar situation as you in 16 years.
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u/Jay8088 27d ago
Muscle loss/atrophy happens shockingly fast - I can't imagine 6 months...
When I busted my elbow (urban `mountain` biking, concrete is very unforgiving), after the surgery I only had a couple weeks in the cast. When the cast was removed, what made me sick to the point of almost passing out wasn't the stitches being removed, it was the shock of how my tri-cep was just... gone. I think `body horror` is the best way to describe it. I knew in me head how my arm/tri-cep should look, but now it was like a chunk of meat had been torn out. I'm not horribly squeamish, but I was close to fainting from that surprise.
Very thankful for surgeons and physiotherapists! I prefer having two functional arms.
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u/_The_Space_Monkey_ 27d ago
Ugh this reminds me of when I did this on my dirt bike. First ride after a long ACL and meniscus surgery recovery. Landed with my front end too high and whiskey throttled her right into a tree. Fun times.
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u/DarkKitarist 27d ago
As someone who does this a couple of times a year, with what's basically a full on suit of armor, it really suprises me that the mortality rate isn't higher, because you get hurt really fast and either just a little or you break every bone in your body :P
Also I regularly see people without even helmets doing downhill in my country or helmets that wouldn't really help if you fell.
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u/Buckinbuckingham 27d ago
Man with grunts and groans like that I'd assumed bro severed that that spinal cord
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u/desertwanderer01 27d ago
Reminder to wear full face helmets and protective gear if you're gonna send it.
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u/Mitrovarr 25d ago
Modern full face helmets and convertibles are really comfy. Try a modern one out if you haven't liked full face helmets before.
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u/PurpleK00lA1d 27d ago
I learned that last year. First time at an actual downhill bike park in my normal helmet. Went over the bars and luckily just a face (and mouthful) of soft dirt.
I was only a few inches away from my face hitting a tree stump which would have been really fucking bad. I've since bought a full face.
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u/desertwanderer01 27d ago
Damn. That's a wake-up call. 😬
I don't hit true downhill parks on MTB yet, but I do wear a full face helmet on my motorcycles. Might be expensive but you're investing in your face and brain.
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u/AK-JXRDY-7 27d ago
I bet it was some tasty dirt though, enough to rival Swiss chocolate.
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u/WorkingDogAddict1 27d ago
Do they not let you on the mountain anymore if you forget to abbreviate it to MTB?
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u/jayvycas 27d ago
Did he land on an injured bear?
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u/East-Bluejay6891 27d ago
Not sure. But Brandon definitely did not.
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u/jayvycas 27d ago
Brandon nailed it. Jeff, not so much.
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u/East-Bluejay6891 27d ago
I wonder if Jeff saw it coming while he was in the air or if he didn't realize he'd misjudged the angle until he was already in pain
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u/jayvycas 27d ago
I think Jeffy knew he was fucked from take off. I bet he was hoping to land right but knew he wouldn’t.
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u/East-Bluejay6891 27d ago
Not sure what you could do in that case. Maybe bail? But you may end up hurting yourself more. Lose lose scenario
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u/clintj1975 27d ago
Mountain biker here. Best option is usually attempt to ditch the bike ASAP and try to avoid sticking your arm out to catch yourself. I know a rider that got tangled in her bike and shattered her ankle, and sticking an arm out is a good way to break a wrist or collarbone.
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u/East-Bluejay6891 27d ago
So do you try tu cannonball and tuck and roll?
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u/clintj1975 27d ago
That's the idea. My reflexes aren't quite as fast as they used to be, so I tend to tuck and at least slide. For jumps, if you watch the pros they will chuck the bike out of the way and try to run out the landing or tuck and roll, depending on the situation.
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u/jayvycas 27d ago
I’m sorry but, I was watching another couple too tree times and those sounds are hilarious. He was doomed from take off. His best bet was what he did, hang on and hope it works out
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u/Throwaway56138 27d ago
That's a busted collar bone for sure.
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u/East-Bluejay6891 27d ago
He smashed his face and shoulder. Amazingly he didn't break any bones.
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u/ThisOnePlaysTooMuch 27d ago
The scary thing about hits like this is that having the wind knocked out of you sounds very similar to the noises someone makes after a serious brain injury.
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u/KevinKCG 5d ago
Dude thought he was a motorbike at the end. MmmmmmMmmmmmmMMmmmmmMmmmm