Moments of Regret: 3 Years of Mountain Bike Crashes

by brendan leonard on March 4, 2013 · 6 comments

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Ever wonder what happens to all that raw GoPro footage shot on those gazillion helmet cams you see out on the trail every weekend? Hopefully stuff like this: For your cringing pleasure, Joe Bernard sifted through 700 gigabytes of GoPro footage, over three years of rides, to put together this blooper reel of crashes in Whistler, Mammoth, Northstar, Jackson Hole, Bellingham, and Northern California. It’s a diverse buffet of “d’oh!” — endos, crashes into trees, fast, slow, botched landings, near misses — and it all begins poetically with his friend accidentally whacking himself in the junk with his goggles. Yes, it’s a moments of regret gold mine.

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Artur March 4, 2013 at 13:16

Great video. It’s only funny because the crashers seem rather minor and they are all too familiar.

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Matt Freeman March 4, 2013 at 21:04

Maybe my favourite “Moments of Regret” yet, if only because I recognized so many places I’ve donated my own flesh and self-respect .

On the plus side, at least the crashes at 4:30 are before the GLC drops…nothing worse than eating sh*t there in front of everyone having a beer on the deck…

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Tait March 4, 2013 at 23:20

I’m sure there are lessons to be learnt here. Such as: apparently donning a massive helmet enables one to escape any calamity unscathed. Others?

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bobbles mcderp March 5, 2013 at 10:34

Oh man. I am the goggle-junk-whacker. Never thought this is how I’d enter the limelight. Awesome edit Joe!

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steve casimiro March 5, 2013 at 10:57

Dude. Feel your pain.

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Z Money March 6, 2013 at 06:26

Oddly enough this really makes me want to go ride!

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