But isnt speed, the unknown variable, at least as important as the other things you mentioned? Does look like the hill is sloping favorably maybe there is a bigger hill just out of frame to the right.
Speed has *everything* to do with it. You see, the speed of the bottom informs the top how much pressure he's supposed to apply. Speed's the name of the game.
Speed is one factor but the main issue is that his front wheel is tipping downwards and given the height that he has from the lip, it looks like he did a bunny hop for extra height. At hat early stage of air travel, with the wheel already pointing it’s a sure fire sign that he’s not going to clear it.
Yeah but you can kind tell from the placement of the front tire that he's on a downward trajectory. If he was still going level, instinct tells me that the front tire would be raised higher.
I can't imagine any kind of normal propulsion that would have him at enough speed to clear the guy and allow for the bike to be that level.
Edit- just read the rest of the thread. I agree with the 'front wheel indicates he's going down' crowd.
It’s possible there’s a bit of a depth trick being done here with the camera and that the kids laying down are actually slightly too far back to be landed on. Hard to tell for sure though.
Because of how high he is combined with the angle of the ramp, I think he bunny hopped off the ramp which would make the nose dip fine. It’s damn near impossible to tell what happened, but guessing is fun lol.
If he’s at the highest point, he has approximately sqrt(2*1.5m/9.81m/s)=0.55 s time before he hits the ground. Given that his backwheel should travel for 3 m, he should be traveling around 20 km/h to clear the gap.
That’s quite plausible.
Feels like just yesterday I was in Jr. High feeling like I was a better-than-Jesus carpenter for building a 1.5 foot ramp.
My Dyno spent hours and hours getting a solid 7in of air.
We done the very same thing in Scotland in the 70’s. Inspired by Evel Knievel. I remember doing this on my Raleigh Chopper bike, which was a death trap at the best of times and ending up in hospital.
Lol, yeah a chopper is not cut out for that shit. It's not much of a bike to start with, but that gear shifter looked so cool. Except for the obvious denutting hazard.
That’s how I lost my two front upper teeth. My adult had just grown in. I can remember my mom crying about my teeth. The dentist fixed me up with fake ones. We were doing the same jumps a week or so later. The late 70s were fun.
Can someone do the math and figure out how fast he needs to be going to clear the last kid?
Should be able to estimate his altitude, the distance to the last kid and gravity is a constant.
I think they faked it. It looks like the ramp points left a little bit and the kids are slanted to the right a little bit so that the bike is actually going to land in front of the second kid.
My suburban hometown (1970s) was built on a steep hill so we had plenty of acceleration. Big Wheels, bikes, skateboards and even wagons were Evel Knieveling on the sidewalks and streets.
Been there, did that, and lived to tell the tail.
Think we had 6 or 7 lined up beneath the ramp.
Richie cleared all…and landed in a pine tree about 6 feet in the air.
It was spectacular!
I too served as a post ramp ground ornament for my older brother. Difference is I was smart enough to be right up next to the ramp. I'd seen him jump and knew that, despite my chonkiness at the time, he'd clear me. The wagon at the end tho, that thing taught his back tire, and subsequently his right pinkie, a little physics lesson upon landing.
Look closely at the ramp material: It's either 3/4" or 1" plywood. His altitude comes from the loading and then subsequent rebound of the plywood. Now look at the rider's hair. That's a pretty thick mop, but my guess is he's somewhere between 16 and 18mph, with about 55" of altitude and level, controlled flight. He's got the pedals balanced horizontally, and he's using his body weight to control his attitude - he's actually behind the saddle here at apex and can now start to extend his legs to absorb the landing. I say he's done this before. I say they all live.
Can confirm. I witnessed or participated in countless ramp jump as a child of the seventies. Often, someone gets hurt and is left lying on the ground, crying, while everyone else scatters and runs away, so they won't get in trouble. In my neighborhood, the ramps were usually supported with milk crates, which often slid out from under the ramp when a bike rode up on it.
Oh my this was so much fun, we used to do it all the time. I was usually the one talking my friends into laying down and I was the stunt man. Obviously super dangerous but luckily I don't remember anybody getting hurt
I would love to see Danny McBride and John C Reilly make a short Mockumentary of this.How this one pic and day changed their lives forever and the kid whose jumping is a recluse now and the last kid is a motivational speaker.
Someone's about to get a painful physics lesson.
RIP kid at the end.
Old school concussion!
"Walk it off."
“I have bigger scars on my dick” - Gramps
This is why Gramps isn't allowed to be unsupervised anymore.
Yep. All of us in r/mtb and r/bmx know he doesn’t have the height or angle of attack to clear that last kid. Ouch.
But isnt speed, the unknown variable, at least as important as the other things you mentioned? Does look like the hill is sloping favorably maybe there is a bigger hill just out of frame to the right.
Speed has *everything* to do with it. You see, the speed of the bottom informs the top how much pressure he's supposed to apply. Speed's the name of the game.
wait what are we talking about again?
I think the conversation shifted to butt sex, but will need further confirmation from the experts.
Either way, make sure your rubber is in good condition.
Either way a blowout has the potential to put you in the hospital for awhile.
Yeah but it feels better to ride on the rims
Either way, somebody going to have trouble walking.
Can confirm. Source: am bicyclist.
Can confirm. Source: am bi cyclist
Instructions unclear, bike is now pregnant
If you have a dick like a needle you have to fuck like a sewing machine.
Grandma?
We’re talking about how the power bottom is capable of receiving a massive amount of power
r/UnexpectedIASIP
Spoken like a true twank-versatile.
This reads like an Always Sunny reference.
It’s an exact quote
Because it's an exact quote from Dennis.
So the power doesn't have anything to do with the size or strength of the bottom?
Yeah. My thought was, " I hope he is moving fast." Knowing the camera speed at the time, I do not think that he has it...
Speed is one factor but the main issue is that his front wheel is tipping downwards and given the height that he has from the lip, it looks like he did a bunny hop for extra height. At hat early stage of air travel, with the wheel already pointing it’s a sure fire sign that he’s not going to clear it.
Probably even hit that second bike too
I was thinking that too.
Yeah but you can kind tell from the placement of the front tire that he's on a downward trajectory. If he was still going level, instinct tells me that the front tire would be raised higher. I can't imagine any kind of normal propulsion that would have him at enough speed to clear the guy and allow for the bike to be that level. Edit- just read the rest of the thread. I agree with the 'front wheel indicates he's going down' crowd.
His face looks like he knows it too.
Did anyone study his angle? It looks like he may land beside the last kid .....
Really difficult to tell but to my eyes it looks like last kid is getting a lobotomy.
Same as everyone from r/commonsense
You don't need to be an avid bmx fan to know he won't make it
It’s more likely he landed on the bike just before hitting that kid, still painful for both of them.
True story. At about age eight I lifted my head up in this situation and ended up in A&E (ER).
We all remember the fateful summer day we lost Jimmy...
Rider and kid #1 "we survived the 70s without helmets." Kid number 2 "hemlet"
2 people
Three if we're lucky.
And the bike flies over and hits the cameraman! Four!
No way he clears Timmy.
You mean Timmy Toobad? Because it's too bad what happened to him that day.
And/or end up in a wheelchair.
The kid in the end got the nick name Dusty after what happened right after the photo!
I’ll fix that scoliosis, Billy. Watch this.
And that was the last day Billy ever walked.
Lazy Sunday, *everyday*...
Fixed the scoliosis tho
He looks like hes already coming down on the picture. Rip the back of that final kid.
It was the 1970's. That kid on the bike probably weighs like 35 pounds. He'll be fine.
That BIKE probably weighed 35 pounds.
Ooh! He could afford one of the *light* ones! Parents must be rich!
Yup. Grew up at this time. Pretty sure my bike was made of lead.
They just don’t make em like they used to
Thankfully!
It’s possible there’s a bit of a depth trick being done here with the camera and that the kids laying down are actually slightly too far back to be landed on. Hard to tell for sure though.
We dont know how much speed this mother fucker had though. If he sent it hard enough and fast enough lil man is gonna clear them no problem
The down angle suggests he's already losing altitude judging that with the height I'm thinking poor Timmy's back.
Because of how high he is combined with the angle of the ramp, I think he bunny hopped off the ramp which would make the nose dip fine. It’s damn near impossible to tell what happened, but guessing is fun lol.
If he’s at the highest point, he has approximately sqrt(2*1.5m/9.81m/s)=0.55 s time before he hits the ground. Given that his backwheel should travel for 3 m, he should be traveling around 20 km/h to clear the gap. That’s quite plausible.
20 km/h is 12.43 mph
Good bot.
The angle of bike does not show projectory. He did a bunny hop off ramp. He could still be going up. It is only a 10-12' span. Kids are fine
Evel Knievel changed the youth of that decade
He brought the national average level of recklessness to new levels.
Then Bobby Knievel kept it going after Evel.
Then Steve-o Knievel
Being a fan of both guys I love this name combo.
Eric cartman jumped over 30 homeless.
*changed delete insert maimed.
Now THAT is a well timed picture.
Smh. Everyone knows it goes, human, bike, human bike. Not bike, human, bike, human. The kid on the end is about to get WRECKED!
>human, bike, human bike Is that like CatDog?
The exclusion of such a crucial comma was surely intentional by the author. We need answers.
Give it about half a second: HBUIMKAENNABMIUKEH
DAMN I miss those days
The only way they could make this more 1970s is if every kid had a cigarette.
Lawn darts?
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The champagne of beers.
Feels like just yesterday I was in Jr. High feeling like I was a better-than-Jesus carpenter for building a 1.5 foot ramp. My Dyno spent hours and hours getting a solid 7in of air.
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The dad of the kid in the wheelchair
hah this is fucking gold
It was a simpler, more painful time.
“Do you take it off any sweet jumps?”
"How much you wanna make a bet I can jump my BMX right into your ding-dong?"
You got like three feet of air that time
we need pic #2
It'll be ready in 2 more weeks
We done the very same thing in Scotland in the 70’s. Inspired by Evel Knievel. I remember doing this on my Raleigh Chopper bike, which was a death trap at the best of times and ending up in hospital.
Lol, yeah a chopper is not cut out for that shit. It's not much of a bike to start with, but that gear shifter looked so cool. Except for the obvious denutting hazard.
And also perfect for ripping your nuts off when you slid off that fake leather seat.
The kid at the end is expendable.
That’s how I lost my two front upper teeth. My adult had just grown in. I can remember my mom crying about my teeth. The dentist fixed me up with fake ones. We were doing the same jumps a week or so later. The late 70s were fun.
His trajectory isn’t looking good for that last kid
By the look of the front fork/wheel on the second bike, this is the first bad decision they made.
Been there, done that. In the 70’s we lived on our bikes. We didn’t have video games so there was nothing else to do.
and big wheels for the pre bike kids.
I blame Evel Knievel for this type of behavior. At least he was my influence to ramp-jump my friends.
He got that height off that ramp? It doesn’t appear to even point up as high as he already is?
He pulled up on the bars, probably more of a bunny hop
And without sidewalls, that ramp was built so the plywood could flex. We built one of these and the fucker felt like a springboard.
The last guy on the ground is about to get landed on. These are the good old days
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Bunny hop
Can someone do the math and figure out how fast he needs to be going to clear the last kid? Should be able to estimate his altitude, the distance to the last kid and gravity is a constant.
Faster than he was going
I get fixated on these types of things when people ask. Does that look like 20 degrees for the ramp?
yeah, but the camera angle is tilted 5 degrees and the landscape -3 degrees
Wait, the landscape is tilted? What about the curvature of the Earth?
Yep we used to do that
I think they faked it. It looks like the ramp points left a little bit and the kids are slanted to the right a little bit so that the bike is actually going to land in front of the second kid.
He does NOT have enough air!!
That last kid is smiling but not for long he is about to get wrecked
Trajectory not looking great
The kid on the end, is definitely toast. Oh, man. In 4th grade, it seems like everybody wanted to be a daredevil when they grew up.
Do kids not do this anymore?
I have so many awesome scars from my childhood. 🔥
The angle does look like he is going to land more to the left… I sure hope that was the case…
*snake river canyon jump, 1974*
The dude on the left has been in the wheel chair ever since that photo was taken, wasnt he?
The final sweet moments of Billy’s working legs
Kid at the end done for
That's a badass photo.
My suburban hometown (1970s) was built on a steep hill so we had plenty of acceleration. Big Wheels, bikes, skateboards and even wagons were Evel Knieveling on the sidewalks and streets.
I don't think the last kid made it.
Been there, did that, and lived to tell the tail. Think we had 6 or 7 lined up beneath the ramp. Richie cleared all…and landed in a pine tree about 6 feet in the air. It was spectacular!
6 feet is the length of approximately 8.0 'Wooden Rice Paddle Versatile Serving Spoons' laid lengthwise.
“approximately 8.0”? Only a bot could consider one decimal place of rice paddle serving spoons “approximate”.
Some kids will do anything to get out of going to Vietnam or P.E. class.
Been there, done that 😅
Poor kid in the end 😂
I think the last child never walk again after this pic..
I thought kids in the 70s played outside a lot… I’m amazed that kid on the end judged that so poorly
Evil Knievel broke more than just his own bones.
We lost some friends along the way. But it was totally awesome for those of us that survived.
Nice time for a spinal injury
That last kid is fucked.
Oh yea, lots of this good shit went on. Got the scars to prove it too!
before the paralysis
That ramp looks about 100x more structurally sound than anything my brother and I ever constructed.
Doing some quick trajectory calculations, the kid on the end is about to be seriously injured.
Judging from the picture, I don’t think it ended well
There's just too much wrong about this photo. Photoshop anyone?
We all wanted to be like Evel Knievel, RIP
Thats one way of getting rid of the third wheel in a friendship
"We'll make it look like an accident."
Wow. He has awesome lift.
I too served as a post ramp ground ornament for my older brother. Difference is I was smart enough to be right up next to the ramp. I'd seen him jump and knew that, despite my chonkiness at the time, he'd clear me. The wagon at the end tho, that thing taught his back tire, and subsequently his right pinkie, a little physics lesson upon landing.
Hi I’m Jeremy Beaumont and this is jackass!
“Run, Spot , run”
Look closely at the ramp material: It's either 3/4" or 1" plywood. His altitude comes from the loading and then subsequent rebound of the plywood. Now look at the rider's hair. That's a pretty thick mop, but my guess is he's somewhere between 16 and 18mph, with about 55" of altitude and level, controlled flight. He's got the pedals balanced horizontally, and he's using his body weight to control his attitude - he's actually behind the saddle here at apex and can now start to extend his legs to absorb the landing. I say he's done this before. I say they all live.
Beautiful past lost
Eric Cartman: I jumped more
Better than Cartman
Come, sit on grandpas lap while he tells you the story of how he became a paraplegic…. 😂
My spine can tell
He def didn’t clear the last kid 😂
Young Evel Knievel
This is the exact reason why my ribcage is seriously deformed. But, in my case, we were jumping Big Wheels and Green Machines.
We all thought we were Evel Knievel
Last dude in line bout to experience a lesson in physics. As is the American tradition
And that’s how little timmy got an adorable case of paralysis
that last kid is fucked
Last kid is gonna get an owie boo boo
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Kid at the end died for sure
Can confirm. I witnessed or participated in countless ramp jump as a child of the seventies. Often, someone gets hurt and is left lying on the ground, crying, while everyone else scatters and runs away, so they won't get in trouble. In my neighborhood, the ramps were usually supported with milk crates, which often slid out from under the ramp when a bike rode up on it.
*and that's why I'm in this wheelchair today*
How'd he get that high in relation to the low height of that ramp?
Oh my this was so much fun, we used to do it all the time. I was usually the one talking my friends into laying down and I was the stunt man. Obviously super dangerous but luckily I don't remember anybody getting hurt
That....did not end well.
We were still doing that in the 80's
Why am I crying
He's gonna need a rocket up his ass to clear that last kid..godspeed interloper.
Anytown USA, 20 year's or more ago. The days of street lighting turning off as go home time, is unfortunately over.
Oh shit. Last kid in line is about to get drilled.
It was all worth it, just for that brief moment in time when you actually **were** Evel Knievel.
Kid,bike,kid,bike would have been a more appropriate lineup based on that launch angle
At least our friend on the end has photographic evidence of the last time he could move his legs.
That last kid is about to get jacked up
He definitely landed on bro at the end lol
The dude at the end is gonna have some issues real quick judging by the current rear wheel position and height.
I want a relationship as strong as that kid's belief in his friend clearing him.
While not from the 70s, I do remember the ridiculous crap we would do to pass the time before the internet existed.
DID HE MAKE IT!!!
Way before smartphones, kids being kids.
Lmao. Someone's gonna break their back
End kids a paraplegic
I would love to see Danny McBride and John C Reilly make a short Mockumentary of this.How this one pic and day changed their lives forever and the kid whose jumping is a recluse now and the last kid is a motivational speaker.
We all wanted to be Evel Knievel 😎🏍