longbeachgary

I'm not at all trying to defend her. I said that her reaction was over the top.

statix6900

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!! haha everyone is saying its his fault??? if she was driving shouldnt she have made sure noone was behind her before she slammed on her breaks for no reason "changing the song on her ipod or what have you".......maby she will think twice next time before slamming on the breaks in the middle of a trail ...let alone just stoping in the middle of a trail period.....

JoeBear50

Well that's funny, I think she was my EX Wife.

roastbeef

heh heh heh

ed 

Well, I finally watched the vid...what a priss. I have gotten smacked by a following rider before, but that's the nature of the beast. Suck it up, wanker! He wasn't following too close, and even if they were totally un-armored...that crash wouldn't cause any injury. Heck man...I've fallen out of bed harder than that.

Flying Merkel

There is no crying in mountain biking. No gurls or weenies. Women yes, gurls no.

Skankingbiker

Lack of situational awareness. Common trait of the fairer sex.

sknhgy 

I was just wondering; is it normal for riders to wear that much armour?

Dannihilator

On a DH bike, it is common.

twobadfish

It was probably all rented from the shop. I'm guessing by her attitude she doesn't bike all that often.

gholt

All I can say is what a princess!!

samburger

This is bikeforums.net, not lawyerforums.net. Here, we go by who's actually at fault, not technically at fault.

samburger

Alright, if we want to stick with the legal side, let's play it out:

-Guy accidentally runs into her & apologizes
-Girl intentionally assaults guy

I'll have to consult my lawyer for this one, but I do believe the penalty for assault is greater than accidentally bumping into someone. Since it wasn't on a road & no motor vehicles were involved, I don't believe traffic law applies to this situation, so really we're just looking at a case of filmed assault. So the girl was in the wrong, both legally & actually.

/thread

dminor 

Admit it, Sam, you're in love and want her number. I'll see waht I can find out . . .

naiku

Following your logic, when I drive home from work tonight, if a deer jumps out in front of me in the road, I should first check behind me before slamming on my brakes? At which point I will most likely hit the deer? And it is brakes, not breaks, brakes are what stop you, breaks are what happens if you don't stop.

Regardless, it is 100% her fault for stopping randomly, and then over-reacting. The video makes me want to go out and ride.

mopartodd

Bottom line: Don't go mtbing when you're PMS/PMDDing.

ed 

never

Ha! I have some footage of Bikeforums favorite old DHer suffering the repercussions of someone stopping right in front of him. Come to think of it, I have several clips with Chris stopping right in the middle of the trail and someone (mainly me) running or almost running into him.

never

He's not going too fast for that trail. You can ride as fast as you want on any trail. You just need to be aware when following behind unknown traffic. But slow-moving traffic should also be aware of faster riders coming up from behind...it's just being courteous when at a resort.

twobadfish

Exactly.

Once she assaulted him there was no "who was more or less right" because she escalated the situation to an entirely new level.

He had every right to file assault charges and with it on film she would have been stuck with a misdemeanor assault charge for the rest of her life. Who cares about the accident? It was just that, an accident.

highroller

the guy must have been daydreaming to rear end her, some steering movement and not being so close would have prevented the crash.

dminor 

Now if that had been a BC bike park, the constables would have just encouraged her to take another toke and chill a bit . . . .

mopartodd

He was too busy jamming to the Bee Gees. lol

ed 

You are what's wrong with America.

samburger

Guilty as charged. It's the filmer's fault for getting such a good angle of her backside.

Oh & it shouldn't be too hard to get her number...it seems like half of BF.net has dated/married/divorced her.



Sad, but true. IMO, that would put him as much in the wrong as she was for flipping out.

I like to think that mountain biking is far enough off the beaten path for people to chill the f out & just treat each other decently though. Maybe it was her first time on a trail of that magnitude & she was totally exhausted trying to make it down the mountain, & she just had a tantrum/breakdown moment. I know it's happened to me several times backpacking before, when you hit that moment of total exhaustion & start asking yourself "why do i put myself through this?". I'll defend the guy in this situation because I think it was the girl's fault for taking her frustration out on a guy who made an honest mistake, but I'm not trying to condemn the girl either.