[Closed] Show me some pictures of you doing some big drops offs..

Apologies for lazy link, working away and only have my phone for tinternet https://www.rootsandrain.com/photos/542423

sorry, my mate isn't very good with a camera and managed to cut me out of the shot, but i managed to drop this massive kerb (at least 3" tall!)

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😉

Hardtail hero.

Doing it slowly is more scary - hoppity-hoppity-droppity!
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I'll bite!

As big as it gets for me (landed about half-way down - not my bike)

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Another: 199... (note the saddle at full height)
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BITD, bit of a hollywood drop, right in front of the restaurant! softer landing than any of the others so far, though...

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Hucks away!

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Les Gets kona bike park circa 2008

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I remember that drop in Les Gets...I ran up to it a few times but bottled it. I couldn't get my head around the run up because as you rode up the ladder to get to it, you could see the landing etc just the other side of the valley.

It's a lot bigger than that pic seems to make it look!

Stevede that drop is big and scary on super tavi and you also seem to have left your full suss at home
Pure madness plus steel ball bag - props Sir

Ha ha cheers frogleek, it's not too bad on the hardtail to be honest, I reckon the first gap is technically more difficult.

One of our guys had a helicopter ride and a few weeks in hospital after getting the hut jump wrong. 🙁

Me, circa 1999, Buckland Rings in Lymington, riding an Orange Mr O.

My friend broke his femur riding this a few weeks later.

33 foot gap - great fun!

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Went to Pila for the day, was awesome, didn't realise what I had been dropping off until we stopped and looked back! It still gets my heart pounding just watching.
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This was pretty hardcore
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BFe at the Mega

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One day Jedi training! Couldn't (or wouldn't) have even attempted something like this beforehand. Going back in April - can't wait!!
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JonEdwards - Member

BFe at the Mega

Kinnel! Is that a drop to flat?

Not exactly big - handy rock at Stanage

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Kinnel! Is that a drop to flat?

Nah - about the same as the Les Gets one further up the page.

Glc drop Whistler 05

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[quote=siwhite]Me, circa 1999, Buckland Rings in Lymington, riding an Orange Mr O.

My friend broke his femur riding this a few weeks later.

33 foot gap - great fun!

Buckland Rings is my old stomping ground!

I remember Steve Geall (sp?) riding both Oranges and a Spooky IIRC on those trails.

All the local kids (probably myself included) were gobsmacked at a "celebrity" from the pages of MBUK gracing our jumps... ha ha

For that gap in your picture, you needed to straight-line down the side of the quarry?

Xiphon - that's the one. You had to drop straight in from the top to clear that gap.

Was quite fun riding with Geally and some of his chums - I learned a lot from him. I remember when Steve got married - we were all mucking about at Buckland on the bikes the day before when Steve Peat just turned up and started riding.

I had the offer of a factory ride with Spooky, but it was the summer before I joined the Army so didn't work out...

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Euanc, road gap at Inners?

nice one nik 😀

im pants at drop offs, I can ride them but never quite mange to 'send it'

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cwmcarn freeride drops, before litigating muppets had them removed

stevede - that drop at Gawton - on a hardtail. You idiot. Did you survive?
(fair play if you did sir!)

Basically a big kerb compared to some of the above, not got pics of anything bigger (not that I've done much bigger)
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not big but its the first pic i found 🙂

This thread just reminds me i can't ride for s**t....... 😉

This is from BUCS '11 at Moelfre Hall. Resulted in one of the bigger offs I've had.
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This is somehow the biggest jump I have a picture of me doing. Can't even get a decent frame grab from a video because they are all POV.

Revolution Bike Park

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looks big but do-able george, what is that height wise? ~4' from woodwork to grass but 6-7' to where your rear tyre landed?

Fairly big
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D0NK - Member
looks big but do-able george, what is that height wise? ~4' from woodwork to grass but 6-7' to where your rear tyre landed?

Probably, yeah, think I made it about five feet from top of drop straight down, with the transition adding a bit, but it's a nice smooth landing, the tricky bit is making sure you don't overshoot it and land to flat - I was chatting with a bloke on the uplift who'd done exactly that and had the bruised to prove it.

jimthelad - Member
This is from BUCS '11 at Moelfre Hall. Resulted in one of the bigger offs I've had.

That photo perfectly captures the moment when you realise it's all going wrong, look like it was painful!

I remember that drop in Les Gets...I ran up to it a few times but bottled it. I couldn't get my head around the run up because as you rode up the ladder to get to it, you could see the landing etc just the other side of the valley.

Yep I had exactly the same thing happen but was a bit too late in deciding to stop...

julioflo - Member
stevede - that drop at Gawton - on a hardtail. You idiot. Did you survive?
(fair play if you did sir!)

Julioflo - I survived! Done it loads of times on the hardtail, happy to say that I did it a good few times before they made the run in easier too. In fact when they made the run in easier I forgot and hit it as fast as I normally would and overshot it landing halfway in the berm which was a touch harsher landing than normal! From a technical point of view it's no big deal, confidence, speed, commitment and a bit of technique.

Definitely a thread to make me feel utterly inadequate.

I was bothered by the kerb at the start.

SOAP - Member
Fairly big

You seem to be mid-understanding what a drop-off is, or something is going horribly wrong

Euanc, road gap at Inners?

It is aye.

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Probably the biggest I've done, the big step down at Woburn. It's actually nicer on a hardtail (as pictured) I think as the landing seems to buck you about a bit of a fs even with rebound set right.

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Hope it's still there after all the felling etc :\

Yep I had exactly the same thing happen but was a bit too late in deciding to stop...

Think that run in needs a little work messiah, looks sketchy

I'm totally not good enough to feature in this thread.........

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^^^ that looks huge, fair play.

Wysiwyg wins!

thats what I was thinking Soap!

Ooh what do I win?

This is the wide view (google pic)

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I think that ones bigger than this?

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I'd definitely be thinking twice about that one. Then saying nah! Fair play man, that's huge.

Done some stuntman sized jumps in my bmx days but no pics 🙁 . This is the best i've got. 2.47 in the vid is probably my longest jump. I was a bit too fast on my first attempt at the coffin jump at inners. Doesn't look much on camera but the lads reckoned a good 40' . Scared the crap outta me if i'm honest.

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bloody bah!

Is that the one on Air Voltage? I had a look at them, but it was way too big for me.

I did this one a few years ago in the bike park, wouldn't even consider it now. In fact, I don't even know why I did it then, it was nasty.

I remember someone had written 'bonne chance' on the lip of the woodwork. Silly things you remember 🙂

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^^ and therein lies the reason Hobnob finds the downhill skills of xc riders a bit average.... 😀

The only thing I managed on Air Voltage was the skinny with little drop at the end! Everything else is just mad. That road gap is huge and with a big berm after it. Saw someone do it and you could hear the tyre hit his frame on his 8" travel bike 😮 Some people do it on HTs.....

Just when you get lulled into thinking STW is populated by doddery mincers... 😯 😛

wysiwyg wins!

These 2 from Leogang the other month.

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You seem to be mid-understanding what a drop-off is, or something is going horribly wrong

The OP stated "[i]or jumps....[/i]", so SOAP posted a pic of a jump!!

Great how the drops are getting bigger and bigger. I have no chance to keep up so here is a pic I randomly found on google.

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Didn't see or jump. in that case

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After last year's [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/ye-gods-my-back-hurts-numpty-crash-content ]drop-off related disaster [/url]I've decided to only attempt drops where I think "yep, no problem" (which basically equates to 4' to flat max if I'm in the zone and the run in and out are friendly). It's awesome seeing all these big drops and thinking that I don't actually want to even think about trying them. Kudos to you braver riders!

Here's my effort from Chatel Bike park a few years ago..
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DrP

Wysiwig, is that the big kicker at the bottom of the slopestyle course in Chatel? Damn, wouldn't touch that one!
DrP, that was a nice drop mate, it had gone last time I was there.

Here's my little fella (11) in Leogang again on a 4 inch travel Kona, he's on a Trek Session 8 now and absolutely flying.

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Yupp it is, gone now :'(

My mates did the big Scott Drop last year, but i'd cracked my frame on Air Voltage, over shot the last drop to flat 🙁 so couldnt go.

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yoshimi - Member
I remember that drop in Les Gets...I ran up to it a few times but bottled it. I couldn't get my head around the run up because as you rode up the ladder to get to it, you could see the landing etc just the other side of the valley.
Yep I had exactly the same thing happen but was a bit too late in deciding to stop...

Danny, come to Leogang this year, I've got a GoPro now so can capture your pain in 1080P. 😛

To keep the thread alive, here's the little road gap under the Pleney.

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And here's the the nipper again.

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