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Video: Look before you Leap! Chatel Bike Park Fail

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The video above is both an argument for surveying technical trails before riding them, and one calling for better trail design. Either way, when these four friends took a leap off a bridge into the unknown, they were pretty lucky to walk away unharmed. Who knows, maybe with a little grooming the line to the right could make a nice hip?

Riders in order of crashing:

1st Juan Cruz Paez
2nd Sebastian Gomez Lassalle
3rd Javier Santiago
4th Benjamin Gomez Lassalle
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Chunkymonkey
Chunkymonkey
11 years ago

Word on the street, it’s a set up…….

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Mindless
Mindless
11 years ago

Morons.

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DaleC
DaleC
11 years ago

My ex Brother-in-law did the same thing skiing and ripped his knee apart.

These guys got lucky.

“Life is tough. It’s tougher when you are stupid” – John Wayne

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MissedThePoint
MissedThePoint
11 years ago

After riding park, I would’ve expected that to be a decently designed jump too, as I’ve been conditioned to trust bike park jumps/drops enough to ride them “blind” the first time encountering them. Apparently Chatel isn’t quite like the other bike parks. At least the penalty for failure doesn’t seem too bad… a taco’d wheel and maybe having your balls smashed against the bike.

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Jeff
Jeff
11 years ago

At least they can laugh about it. That is a seriously bad trail design, but I’m glad to say I’m not stupid enough to go flying off a jump I don’t know where the bottom is, though.

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MissedThePoint
MissedThePoint
11 years ago

Actually, it’s not even that blind of a turn. Can see the exit of the turn, but that guy in front was going a bit faster than the one with the camera, and apparently when chasing behind someone, you tend to follow their line. Just got to question what the front guys were doing. 😀

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Zap?
Zap?
11 years ago

Waypoint fixation at its very worst!

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Bob
Bob
11 years ago

Isn’t that what you DHers have a 180mm of travel for?

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PROEDGEBIKER.COM
PROEDGEBIKER.COM
11 years ago

#MFCRAZY!

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SmooveP
SmooveP
11 years ago

Lemmings.

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RobertO
RobertO
11 years ago

The whole thing seemed staged to me. That just my opinion of course.

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satisFACTORYrider
satisFACTORYrider
11 years ago

Friends don’t let friends huck blind.

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David
David
11 years ago

I call setup. These guys are obviously pretty experienced riders and I don’t believe they’d all do that big a huck off something that you didn’t know and couldn’t see the other side of.

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