I never had a dirt bikes as a kid. Despite the fact we had acres and acres of woods behind the house my parents weren’t into it and that likely allowed me to be sitting here today writing this. Being that I have a hard enough time walking and chewing gum, a dirt bike probably would have been an express direct to the emergency room. I cannot say that I was envy free though. My friends that had them always looked to be having a blast, ripping down the train tracks or messing around in the various mucky pits we had around town. The riders in this video are not having that fun, or more correctly they were having that fun before the pain and suffering that follows it. While not every one of these is a crash, the saves are few and far between.
The every exploding world of action cameras allows video like this to exist in its most stunning form. Sure it is one thing to see someone fall off a dirt bike but it is wholly another when you are ON the person that is falling off the dirt bike, right? Seeing the violence of a person hitting that barbed wire fence is doubled when you are on the dude’s shoulder and can see it from his perspective. You get that sick feeling in your stomach about three tenths of a second before the impact when you KNOW that you are in trouble.
If there is one thing we’ll preach about here is it the fact that most everyone in the video has safety gear on and that’s a good thing. From the helmet on down. Obviously protecting your noggin is the most important part but keeping the skin on your hands and legs is a pretty good idea as well. Chicks may dig scars but if you look like Jigsaw, ain’t nobody got time for that.
Gentle dumps, fast slides, stunning impacts, and flying bikes…you literally don’t know what is coming next when you watch this video!
