A little math about Jordie Lunn’s amazing drop-in
If you haven’t seen Rough AF 3, see it now:
The drop-in Jordie does at the beginning of the video … awesome!
I needed to do a little math. Based on eyeball assumptions:
Assuming a height of 16 meters and a transition radius of 8 meters, that yields 4 Gs in the transition.
If Jordie weighs 180 pounds, that’s over 700 pounds. He can be forgiven for collapsing into the rear tire.
Also:
As he transitions from almost vertical to the runout, his handlebars rotate backward dramatically. In LLB language, this is a row.
The row has to happen as fast as the angle changes, which is pretty darn fast: according to my stopwatch, somewhere between 1/4 and 1/2 second. If Jordie doesn’t pull fast enough — and he can be forgiven for this! — he ends up on the back of the bike.
This is so badass.
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