Brave?....foolish?.....or just old fashioned batshit crazy?.
[url= http://www.vitalmtb.com/videos/member/Matt-Macduffs-Loop-of-Doom,31756/iceman2058,94 ]Matt Macduffs loop of doom here[/url]
Mental. On the pinkbike interview he said the compression of hitting the loop meant some serious G's and loss of control. Surely someone might have sussed that out.
All of the above
In the vid I think I hear him say they underestimated it and didn't know what they were getting in to.
Insane
6-7g's of compression (plus 1g bodyweight) on entry to the loop according to the back of my envelope
Crackers.
They could have at least tested it in miniature first with a hot wheels track .
He was very lucky 😯 to escape with "only" 10 fractures in his wrist and 3 fractures in his ankle.
[url= http://www.the-rise.com/loopofdoom ]Full interview here[/url]
I had an Evel Knievel loop the loop toy as a kid, i could have told him it was going to go tits up. 😉
Stupid
This is how sensible people do it. ie using science so they don't kill themselves.
That IS how it is done
...but I suspect the budgets were a little different
Everything is possible, you just have to believe, man!
[quote=neil the wheel ]Everything is possible, you just have to [b]do some maths[/b], man!
jam bo - Member
...Everything is possible, you just have to do some maths, man!
and testing.
Matt Hoffman and Tony Hawk did something similar in 2007 (on a smaller scale). No maths, just balls (Matt) and skill (Tony).