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pk
September 4th, 2002, 03:25 PM
Someone send me this link:
No Bluff
Mountain biker Darren Butler takes an 8-meter fall from a bluff above Kamloops, British Columbia, while riding for a television series on the sport on Aug. 27. Butler, 25, who is an experienced mountain bike free-rider, was taken to the hospital in Kamloops with serious injuries following the crash.

http://www.msnbc.com/c/0/102/896/ssmain.asp?0wp=n00
radair
September 5th, 2002, 10:58 AM
He reportedly shattered both heels and broke each foot in 4 to 8 places.

OUCH!
knucklebuste
September 16th, 2002, 01:36 PM
How the hell would you land off something like that. That's just asking for death as far as I'm concerned. How would you land that? Kevin
Tim
October 1st, 2002, 05:00 PM
Nuts, Kevin -- that's just "real freeriding." You know, the type we don't have here in Massachusetts:-)
sizlinseagulsoup
October 8th, 2002, 07:42 AM
Have you ever watched does super-nutty mountain bike videos? It's not computer animations you know.