News Forum - Motocross rider dies, another injured after falling from cliff in Chiang Mai

[Thaiger]

A motocross rider died and another was severely injured after driving off a cliff in Chiang Mai and falling more than 50 metres. The two were on a motocross trip from Bangkok to Chiang Mai and were driving near the scenic village Mae Kampong and up to a mountain viewpoint when they fell from the cliff. The riders were going up to the Kew Fin viewpoint when they disappeared. A report in Thai media does not say how many people were riding together up to the viewpoint, but says their friends were searching for the two riders and asking locals […]

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[Khunmark]

The road up to Kew Finn is torturous on a bicycle. I’ve seen many a motorcyclist lose control on the same road. It’s not an adventure for the faint hearted.

[Soidog]

In other news. A further 16 people have died on the roads since sunrise this morning….

[Guest1]

Also these "moto crosser" are plowing through hiking trails on uphill slopes. Damaging it for bikers and walkers, runners, making it even easier, for the water in the rainy times, to flush the track out. 

Not that they deserve to fall down a cliff and die, for it. But that two did fall at the same spot is somehow pointing, that they got "to close to each other", isn't it? "Usually" only one gets lost this way, either the last one or one behind stops there and the lost one is found.

Just saying, but they often ride like idiots through hiking/biking areas. I had to jump out of the way a couple of times, in the past years. Lucky, the engine noise is telling, what comes around the next corner.

On the other hand, this article puts the location on my map, seems to be very nice. Like the one with the lost monks from Kanchanburi in the national park there.

Looking forward to it, they will open again soon, methinks

[Steve555]

They may have been on MX bikes but they were not doing a Motocross, they were trail riding. MX is done on a track. Facts matter.