This 12-minute video has a very strong educational value, as it teaches just how bad an idea riding off-road alone in the mountains is.
Regadless of how experienced a rider might be, off-road trails are always capable of delivering the most unpleasant surprises. Suffice to say that crashing the bike down a steep or tall embankment makes things lousy as hell, as getting it back on trail is no one-man job.
Now, this fellow was extremely lucky he did not break any bones or suffer incapacitating injuries, and his toils have been limited to bringing the bike back to civilization by hand, as it would no longer start.
In the end, things went alright, but that's only because of a healthy dose of luck. And not everybody is THAT lucky...
Now, this fellow was extremely lucky he did not break any bones or suffer incapacitating injuries, and his toils have been limited to bringing the bike back to civilization by hand, as it would no longer start.
In the end, things went alright, but that's only because of a healthy dose of luck. And not everybody is THAT lucky...