The steps of certain death.

I finally plucked up the courage to ride mine today and cleaned them.

Stoked.

That is all.

no vid, no glory 😐
(I’m still amped for you though)

Good feeling isn’t it, I’ve finally done my local ones too, after a year recouping from a collarbone fracture.

You were in Stoke?

POIDH

I wont be trying my local ones. This is half of them, they continue round the corner. My Excuse is that my widebars wont fit 😆 !

Are they as bad as the steps of DOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

binners, I think you’ve actually got the greasy steps of our lady of the broken coccyx there

Mine were probably a bit longer than ska-49’s but wooden risers and earth treads if you see what I mean. Not quite as steep.

I should also mention that after TSOCD, I then rode another two sets which had been psyching me – both these where concrete and I cleaned them four times each.

Bike? Inbred 29er SS rigid.

I.

Rock.

😉

check out Dog Leap Stairs in Newcastle, they’re the hardest around here I think…

Really happy for the OP, well done!

Anyone ridden Dog Leap Steps? I’ve looked many times, but would almost certainly never even attempt them on a bike

mcmoonter

savage.

Natural selection nearly working its magic…

That would have been worse if he had a helmet – rotational forces and all that.

I’m waiting for RocketDog to ride our local steps of certain death, from what, a year ago. 😀

Handlebar issues putting me off at the moment.

Realman, that doesn’t look too bad but guarantee I’d have some magnetic attraction to the lamppost at the bottom of the steps in the 2nd picture.

You would need really good brakes on that.

anyone done the Newton Abbot steps..? The ones opposite B+Q..?

RealMan appears to have bouncy things on his bike. Real Realmen do it rigid. *

* Unless it steep and scary.

mcmoonter – Member

No helmet for riding anything like that = Epic Fool.

Dog Leap Stairs?

Where in Newcastle?

Mike – down Dean Street, on the right just before the railway bridge

Top view:

That looks like the perfect time to have a go down there. 🙂

I thought this was going to be about Cwmcarn 😥

Dog Leap Stairs have been done judging from this picture on Pinkbike. On a hardtail, at night with no lights switched on!

Thanks Paul.

Did those years ago when i was working at LD Mountain Centre over the road.

To be fair it was dry and i had someone watching for pedestrians/cars at the bottom which helped.

Not sure i’d have the balls anymore…

Did those years ago when i was working at LD Mountain Centre over the road.

How long ago was that? One of my best mates is a manager there. Think he’s been there for a good 10 years or so.

*goes off to Google “Steps of Death by postcode” web site*

neninja, it’ll have been 2004/2005ish so probably worked with your mate.

I don’t ‘get it’. Ride steps? Is it a northern thing? 😐

What happens in ‘the south’ when you come to a set of steps?

Realman, that doesn’t look too bad but guarantee I’d have some magnetic attraction to the lamppost at the bottom of the steps in the 2nd picture.

Yeah, main thing putting me off.

RealMan appears to have bouncy things on his bike. Real Realmen do it rigid. *

Do it on a BMX, surely?

marcusmtb – what a vid, that mst hurt SOOOO much!

Fleshmarket close in Edinburgh has to be up there, super steep steps, then some greasy slabs, then 2-3 extra high steps (mini drop i’d imagine) then some more greasy slabs and stairs

Dog Leap aren’t that bad, cleared them a few times, the worst IMO are the ones along from there that go under the arch, castle stairs, theres a left, right left combo on them that is terrifying. Cleared them once, bottled them many, many times.

Realman where are those steps?

Think this is from “Jib”

How not to jump stairs

And done a bit better
http://www.pinkbike.com/video/49322/

Steps of dual downhill racing and jumping doom.

Italspark, the Dangerous Bros and I spent an evening back in the 80s on rigid, canti braked Stumpjumpers racing down these steps at the foot of Cockburn St in Edinburgh. We discovered you could jump onto a set of steps from flight to flight with speed. We had a lookout on the street.

Kev Dangerous and I both broke our frames at the down/head tube doing this. It felt good to be as Rad as a Dangerous Brother.

Specialized replaced the frames under warranty. 🙂