How not to cross a creek (Crash pic) Cape to Cape MTB event.

scratchy

Farkin Activist
A bit chuffed with this one.

I do the event photography for the Cape to Cape MTB event in Western Australia and this year for the first time we went to this creek crossing. The pros were smart and approached it with caution with many getting off and running through. While I was there two riders flew down the downhill and bunnyhopped into the creek both crashed. It was muddy from other riders and a ballsy approach. It's a 14 shot crash sequence and hopefully you'll get to check out the full sequence sometime soon. The Western Australian ran this page 14 half page which is pretty amazing (Sam Hill winning the world champs didn't even get a pic!). Great exposure to the event and sport with approx 300,000 readers on a Monday.


Strangly they picked the previous shot for their online posting: http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/19573350/cape-cycle-trek-hard-and-fast/
 

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franco cozzo

Likes Dirt
thats a great shot....watched some highlights recently on youtube & it looks like a really fun event
also ....will keep this in mind next time im crossing a creek bed...:p
 

Dozer

Heavy machinery.
Staff member
Great shots Scratchy, good to see you back!
That guy would have plowed that creek if his wheel's diameter were smaller.........................
 

DrDoom

Squid
Damn, that's pretty brutal haha. Nice shot though! That dudes either got to be pretty stoked or shaking his head for getting that shot in the state paper
 
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