[Closed] Over the bars.

hope your ok, looks like you hit the tree? Wasnt the trail wide enough LoL

cheeky root to pedal interface

Oh it was plenty wide enough, Im just not very good lol.

Don't look at the tree 😆
You looked at the tree......

We've all been there - horrible feeling.

I dislocated both shoulders after an OTB. I was knackered and my riding had become ragged.

Oof...pedal hit the tree?

You made exactly the same noise as me when I went otb. Odd that. 🙂

yep, pedal hit the tree root.
Ive never made that noise before, only when i come off my bike, very odd.

Please confirm you are ok before we take the mick

[i]Please confirm you are ok before we take the mick [/i]

Or once settled in A&E 🙂

I normally say either 'oh' or nothing followed by ooooof.

completely fine guys. Not a scratch on me. Only a broke spoke.
so laugh away guilt free.

Looks like one of those moments when your like 'Yes this is an easy bit, don't need to concentrate hard' then boom!

I can only assume the tree took offence at your pink shorts and stuck his leg out as you passed.

Ha ha. Exact same noise I made going OTB about three weeks ago. I hit something that I didn't see and was up and out the front door before my subconscious could access the 'suitable swear word' folder. Glad to hear you are OK. I landed like a bag of shit, held myself still for the usual three seconds waiting for the pain to register. Luckily only a bit from the outside of my right thigh. A decent bruise, but nothing serious.

It certainly gets your attention when it happens.

You need to trim your bracken, and raise your camera angle a bit 😉

There Is a lot of things I need to do judging from this video. Tips welcome.

Ow!

Be aware of where your feet and hands are!

That's actually a serious point, and a key skill for riding natural trails in particular. Knowing if you're going to strike a pedal if you put in a pedal stroke at a given point is invaluable, as is knowing if you're going to clip the end of the handlebars. I got a shorter fork during the summer and I have had to recalibrate my pedal-rock awareness due to the drop in bb height.

I think a lot of people just don't think this way when they are on a bike.

I had a similar OTB about six months ago on the Graveyard section at Afan. I was coasting along the trail and my mind started drifting off, lost concentration for a second, my pedal clipped the right hand side and ended up with a fractured arm. Easily done.

It but a mere flesh wound, check out these guys going OTB properly!

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CAUTION: Contains terrible Music Content...... 😉

I had 2 OTB's in November,torn shoulder ligament and lucky it wasn't a broken collar bone,all jokes aside there's a massive crack in my headgear shed it saved my head on impact.

I had 2 OTB's in November,torn shoulder ligament and lucky it wasn't a broken collar bone,all jokes aside there's a massive crack in my headgear shed it saved my head on impact.

My last OTB from a couple of angles from around 3:20. I have at least one a month 🙂

Glad you're ok.
I normally have about one a year, but last one broke 3 vertebrae - no MTBing for me since, miss it like hell.
Take it easy out there....

Years back, my mate, while riding at Thrunton woods, after a dry season, decided to be cheeky and race ahead.

Those of you that know Thrunton, after the cairn, and down through the tracks with the rain gulleys.

He vanished from site. I caught up to see his bike tangled around his legs and he was upside down, quiet. Which was what worried me.

Got to him, spoke and he was okish, worked out how to untangle the bike without moving him too much as he was worried about the large cracking sound he heard when he went OTB and interfaced with the ground, actually the ground inside the rain gulley.

Got him out, and he was sore, a bit shaken, and really worried that the crack had been vertebrae or something else.

Crack turned out to be the back of his helment, sheared up the back with the force of the impact, plastic tighteners had ripped open against the ratchet, and it was just flapping away.

That was just a cheap and nasty halfords special helmet. He spent a decent amount on a good helmet after that. Really appreciated it.

Wouldn't happen on a 29er

6079smithw - Member

Wouldn't happen on a 29er

Surely, you mean 650b! 🙄 The trail would come alive! 😉

This is how you do it properly

Ouch.

maxtorque - Member
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But it's Pantera? 😐

So I shouldn't feel bad for going OTB then? seems to be the done thing.

Get some kneepads.

Especially if you're gonna keep filming yr riding, you know it makes you fall off more don't you?

I try not to do it but sometimes shit happens.