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Stunt maestro Travis Pastrana has successfully recreated three of Evel Knievel’s most famous jumps in one night in Las Vegas on an Indian FTR750 Scout. In the first 143’ jump over 52 cars and the third 149’ jump over the Caesars Palace fountain, Travis even completes the stunts with endos in the braking area. Harder …
Famed sexiest Russian motorcyclist, Olga Pronina, has died in a high-speed crash on her BMW S 1000 RR in Vladivostok. The 40-year-old Russian mother of one was known as the sexiest Russian motorcyclist through her @Monika9422 Instagram account which had more than 200,000 followers, including Australian stunt rider Lukey Luke. He says did not know Olga personally, …
This video posted on Facebook has already had more than 11 million views and is possibly one of the best motorcycle stunt videos we’ve ever seen. It was filmed earlier this year by McCartha Gh in the city of Ho in Republic of Ghana, West Africa. The stunt video features a rider weaving through traffic …
American motocross pro Alex Harvill will attempt to break Australian rider Robbie Maddison’s Guinness World Record for the longest motorcycle jump. The 24-year-old has already broken two world records; one for jumping nearly 130m (425 feet) in a dirt-to-dirt leap and the other when he jumped 90m (297 feet) on a ramp-to-dirt stunt. Robbie’s current ramp-to-dirt …
A Hollywood stuntman has completed a steam-powered “motorcycle” stunt jump across Snake River Canyon that motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel so famously failed to do in 1974. Evel fan Eddie Braun, 54, rocketed to about 400mph (643km/h) to jump the 488m across the Idaho canyon on Friday before a parachute deployed and safely brought him back to earth. He said …
A Hollywood stuntman plans to complete the steam-powered “motorcycle” rocket jump across Snake River Canyon that motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel so famously failed to do in 1974 (see the video above). Evel fan Eddie Braun, 54, now hopes to finish the job on September 17, 2016, jumping 488m across Snake River Canyon in Idaho. The …
Leading Australian motorcycle stuntman Robbie Maddison has been confirmed as a special guest at the 2015 Sydney Motorcycle Show at Sydney Olympic Park on November 20-22. Maddison, who holds the world record for the longest distance ever jumped on a motorcycle is back on Australian soil for the first time since his most daring project …
This is a great motorcycle stunt video featuring American FMX rider Cody Elkins jumping over a biplane flown by Skip Stewart. But is it a fake? It’s the work of image editing and visual effects company Pixel Workers, so you could be fiorgiven for thinking it is an elaborate computer graphics exercise. It also …