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ST. GEORGE — Kaylee Gibb is not your typical 33-year-old mother of three.
For one thing, she’s currently recovering from a broken clavicle suffered when she crashed her mountain bike while attempting a backflip on her bike on a hillside in Virgin. She had completed the feat three times earlier in the day but, in her typical gung-ho fashion, tried it a fourth time and crashed. Hard.
The accident sidelined her for several weeks and it’s only been the past few that doctors would let her get back on her bike.
“They told me I could ride carefully, but no jumping,” she said.
To prepare for that unique backflip jump, she had a 25-foot tall ramp built in the backyard of her brother’s business in downtown St. George earlier this year.
Building the ramp was a challenge because the Gibbs had never built one.
“We went through a lot of changes because we didn’t know what we were doing,” Kaylee noted. “A neighbor used his small tractor at first but that didn’t work and we had to bring in a machine. We even had a professional bike rider come in to help but he’d never built one either.”
A 15-foot dirt mound was created and then a 10-foot platform added on top. A pulley system let her hoist her bike from the dirt portion to the platform before going downhill.
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Editor's note: An original version of this article claimed Kaylee Gibb was the first to perform a backflip on a mountain bike. This has been corrected.
