That’s a lot of dead people. And from basically people being shit heads and not taking safety seriously. -M

US road accident casualties: every one mapped across America | News | guardian.co.uk.

“I don’t think i can hold on by my toes.”

“At least you have your parachute…”

SICK: “I Believe I Can Fly (Flight of the Frenchies)”.

I Believe I can Fly ( flight of the frenchies). Trailer from sebastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo.

Fucking animal needs to learn some trail etiquette. That or that guy needs to just leave his pets at home when he rides.  -M (Via Rose on Facebook)

Mountain Biker gets taken out by BUCK – CRAZY Footage – Only in Africa – YouTube.

TRANSLATION:

Top Guy: My testicles just sucked back up into my abdomen.

Bottom Guy: Really what’s that feel like?

Top Guy: Surprisingly tingly. It isn’t helping my ballance though.

Untitled on Vimeo on Vimeo

via Untitled on Vimeo.

Here’s something you don’t expect to see in the BC. An Ursine Surprise! -M

What is THAT?!?!?

Looks like David Wosner ran into an Ursine Surprise last month on Tallac.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Shane and I were midway down a fresh run on the north trees of Tallac when I saw this! I was looking for Shane’s tracks to meet up with him, and started heading for the tracks of what ended up being those of something much scarier!

Reports of bard wire booby traps set to injure mountain bikers up on peavine. And not the good kind.

Here are the Two Reports from this week:

I found two sections of trail that had barbed wire strung across it this morning. One was at the top of the downhill course and the other was across the single track access from the jeep road onto BLM land. (looking down onto the radio towers, I don’t know the name of the trail) We took the wire down, but there could be more out there, so please be careful! -Rick

And

6/1- 1:00pm Found barbed wire along the trail at the top of the knob south of the houses at the end of Hoge road. One strand was running the middle of the trail for about 20 feet. Another was set up across the trail, at ankle height, being held in by a couple rocks to keep tension. It was all removed.

Also, just to the southwest of the above location there is a steep technical section after a plank that crosses an old mine. Numerous boulders had been placed in this steep technical section (both the gnarly drop and the easier route a few feet away). Unfortunately I was late for an appointment and couldn’t move all the boulders.

Now that I’ve thoroughly confused everyone with my goofy directions, I’ll get to my point- Someone is intentionally messing with the trails in an attempt to inflict harm. Without getting into who or what may have angered the people putting these traps up- we all need to be careful out there and keep eachother apprised of any other traps we encounter. Thankfully nobody has been hurt. -Pete

What  find most surprising about this is that no one has a cameraphone photo of the place they’re talking about and no one an pinpoint it on a map.

WTF people! There was some discussion on the Reno Wheelmen Yahoo Group thread about whether there was recent biker/hiker conflicts that might have precipitated retribution, but i find that unlikely. I’m betting it’s one of the landowners in the area who is sick of people yelling at him not to shoot his guns across the trail. Perhaps someone finally got the cops to catch him in the act.

Regardes, up hill or downhill, DON’T RIDE LIKE A DICK, be careful, and FOR GOD SAKE GET A FUCKING PHOTOGRAPH and mark it on the goddamn map if you see anything.

-M

Vanessa Aadland Earns Mad GNAR Points: How many???.

Don’t do it in the park…

YouTube – DON’T DO IT IN THE PARK (REAL KICK OUT).

Steel is real, but meat is better with BBQ sauce. -M

YouTube – Fuel TV Network Spots : Meat Bicycle.

At least they didn’t have to cut his pants off.  -M

YouTube – JOI Naked.