Crash on Cease and Desist Bentonville
Channel: Eric Landis
Date: 2022-06-25

Here's the crash video. I am following my 14yo son down and we are having a great time. This is our 2nd time down this trail. I simply pulled back a fraction of a second too late. I remember distinctly when I pushed on my handlebars to move my weight back the bars disappeared out from underneath me. You can see I quite literally forced the front wheel down sending all my momentum into the ground.  

I had several thoughts as I was falling, the first was "Am I endoing right now?". I could not believe it because this is not a hard move. Then I was in denial "I'm not going to endo I can ride this out". You can hear my front tire case the front side of the landing knuckle. I was holding firmly enough to pinch flat the tire and wrenching the handlebars/stem away from the front tire. When the front wheel turned underneath me I had time to realize there was no way out so then it was just survival and keep my head/face out of the ground by sacrificing my elbow. You can see I made a fist with my right hand instead of an open hand because I have broken that wrist so many times I can't afford any more trauma to it.  

Somewhere in there I tore something in my right shoulder also that seems worse than the cuts that is currently debilitating me because I can't lift my arm at all.