The Drops At X Games Have Specially Crafted Very Steep Landings To Soak Up All The Impact. Benders Hits Where Basically Crafted With a Shovel Off Of All Natural Landscape. X Games Still Doesn't Go Anywhere Near The Size Off These Hits. If You Watch Rampage Thats The Size Of This Stuff, And Their Aint No 4 Inch Bikes Ridin Out There. Yop Haha Go Bender!
Truly crazy and dude had some courage. And he was doing these things with old shock and damper tech. Imagine how he'd do with the shock tech we got now.
The old kind of bars would just have snapped if you widened them. They had 26 or 26.4 mm centers at best. I’ve seen several snap on much more gentle landings in bike parks… I guess he kept them short to minimize the chances of that happening. At least that is what I could see back then in bike parks with some people.
Bender took a heap of shit back in the day. It practically killed his popularity. Its super funny seeing how appreciated he is now because back then he rose out nowhere and sank just as fast. To me ill always be thankful for this man, but he was a total hack who just had the biggest balls and for that he deserves respect.
@@jones1749 a lot of people like to mock him and say he wasn't a skilled rider and that all he did was crash. I disagree, obviously. I think he was a pioneer of the sport, and went bigger than about anyone else at the time.
