Ride Over Your Head, Fall Off A 40-Foot Cliff + Video
Sure, riding in the canyons with your friends is good fun. We get that. But riding over your head is just plain stupid, not to mention dangerous. Take this video for example, where the rider is just lucky to be alive.
Here we see a rider following someone who we might assume is his friend. Fast forward to 2:20 and suddenly impatience takes over and blatant passes in the opposite lane of traffic start occurring. From here you just know we have the makings of a disaster.
Sure enough with a misjudged radius and some target fixation on a car coming right at him, you can probably guess what happens next isn’t pretty. Check out the video below to see what a first-person view of falling down a 40-foot cliff looks like. Spoiler alert: it’s not fun.
Miraculously, the rider walked away. And his bike doesn’t even appear to be too badly damaged, either. He got lucky, but his misfortune should serve as a constant reminder to keep your cool each time you ride.
Troy's been riding motorcycles and writing about them since 2006, getting his start at Rider Magazine. From there, he moved to Sport Rider Magazine before finally landing at Motorcycle.com in 2011. A lifelong gearhead who didn't fully immerse himself in motorcycles until his teenage years, Troy's interests have always been in technology, performance, and going fast. Naturally, racing was the perfect avenue to combine all three. Troy has been racing nearly as long as he's been riding and has competed at the AMA national level. He's also won multiple club races throughout the country, culminating in a Utah Sport Bike Association championship in 2011. He has been invited as a guest instructor for the Yamaha Champions Riding School, and when he's not out riding, he's either wrenching on bikes or watching MotoGP.
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