The Definition Of Insanity

Very cool. Crazy....but very, very cool.

Meh, he practised it.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=c4u0NLGbm1M

Yeah, he should have just winged it.... /sarc off

Two-strokes still rule eh Kate?!

So. What did the chick in the white coat have to do with it?

He came *this close* to overshooting the friendly (sloping) part of the ramp on the descending jump.

Still hit pretty hard. A couple more feet and he'd be three inches shorter.

Wow!!!

she was checking the life insurance.lol his bride to be.....i bet there was some pucker factor...great jump

This just made my day. Thanks Kate.

Check out a couple of other videos (under videos) at his site.

http://www.robbiemaddison.com

He's going to have a short life. Exciting, but short.

An itsy bitsy more on the throttle and he is flat on his face.

Sick.

I've never been able to get excited about this kind of stupidity. You want to put your life on the line? Do it for something worthwhile. Sign up for the air force or the army.

Freakin awesome

Nothing says "Happy New Year Vegas" like a sickkk jump. !!!
Amazing !

Well, I would have been impressed, but not today. Not as hard as taking a dead airliner from 3000 feet to a safe landing on a river with 155 people on board, no time to plan, no practice run and no second chance...

WOW...great stunt!

Unless of course he's a dem/lib....then it was f*cking stupid.

Sexy. Dead sexy.

To the whiny kids on the bus: Adults are talking. Be quiet.

Rick in BC

and a water landing, arriving intact, much more rare then a "bicycle stunt":-)))))

It looked impressive, but he didn't have to syncronize the takeoff and landing. It was just gravity.

Sorry, but I grew up watching Evel Knievel invent new ways of mangling his body.

Thanks Kate!! I'll be constipated for days. That is the biggest pucker factor that I've ever seen on a bike.

Yikes!!!

The thing to remember is that that guys like that NEVER get laid...

this is just like snowmobiling in valemount or mcbride . I have seen some crazy stuff there

"It looked impressive, but he didn't have to syncronize the takeoff and landing. It was just gravity."

Yeah you could do it! right dp?

Sizzle plus steak!

However, Rick in BC noted:

"Well, I would have been impressed, but not today. Not as hard as taking a dead airliner from 3000 feet to a safe landing on a river with 155 people on board, no time to plan, no practice run and no second chance..."

Sorry, me again. A hero is not someone cheered-on by the masses in the public forum (apparently heroes these days are pre-defined celebrities) a true hero is one who says, "f*ck it, I'm going to get this done".

This pilot had balls of steel and refused to give up.

That was entertaining.

Robbie Maddison - NOT interested in the nanny state!

He must be tired from carrying those gigantic testicles around all the time.

dp, you're quite right that the whole thing was based on physics etc., but you still have to have what it takes to go through with it. (And, I suppose, lack the brains to decide not go through with it.)

If he was really serious,there would be no helmet,knee pads,etc.If you have to protect yourself from your own stunt,then it ain't a stunt,it's stupidity.

Man, you people are a tough crowd.

More balls than brains.

It is a relief to know that if variety in the people you meet is what makes life interesting, there is someone else to compulsively fill the insanely reckless, take-his-life-in-his-hands-like-a-red-flag-and-wave-it-at-the-bull role.

Not me, not in a million years.

So, uhm, how can we somehow use this to kill terrorists...?

Agreed Kate!

Wearing safety gear makes it stupid and not a stunt?

I am sure that RedBull and the casino will be happy to set it up again for you to do correctly.

And I bet he doesn't smoke as it is dangerous to his health.

Insanity is right. Perfect going up and coming down. Otherwise he'd be in the hospital with dozens of broken bones.

Now, if he could just land an A320 at 180Km/h on water without it breaking up.

It definitely had the potential to go the way of a CBC poll that gets a link from SDA.

hey DP re that synchronizing the take off and landing. He does that here, by jumping the length of a football field. Take off and landing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxbTRikQ-yk

Yeah you could do it! right dp?

Posted by: michael at January 17, 2009 3:33 AM

Isn't that what professional wrestlers say to people who accuse them of being fake?

Man, you people are a tough crowd.

Posted by: Kate at January 17, 2009 9:19 AM

Like I said, I grew up watching Evel Knievel. I am impressed by the link from Ward, though.

I'm also completely amazed when I watch motocross racers clear multiple jumps, coming off dirt, landing on dirt, and throwing in a handstand for good measure. Not much time for calculating those stunts.

Not tough,Kate,just smart.So is his next stunt going to be jumping 6 moving buses? Or maybe show his white face and bike through Harlem?

Why can't people just watch and enjoy instead of reminiscing about how someone else did something else better.

Kewl stunt, Evel Knievel rocks and the pilot is defiantly a hero.

The greatest stunt ever was a man who parachuted to a mountain peak, then snow boarded down to a cliff, then cliff dived to another spot to attempt to snow board the rest of the way down the mountain. He killed himself in the final leg of the stunt, but IMO the attempt and how far he got is #1 for me.

I only saw the footage once on a tv show, I don't know the guy's name of the mountain he tried his stunt on. Does this description ring a bell to anyone?

Homez- The problem with stunts like that are, they're done in such remote locations, it's really hard to observe them. That one must have been filmed from the air?

The jump up was sweet but that landing was GRUESOME!!
Throw away the pegs and boots.

Ah. Big deal. So a guy jumps with a motorcycle? Seen that stuff before. A bit too flashy, too much dazzly overkill, the atmosphere... what, is he gonna be doing that again at 'Bamma's inauguration?

I'm more impressed with Ezra Levant and his totally ballsy war against Liberal Fascism, the HRCs and the Islamofascists.

Now, there's a guy with big, hairy 'uns. I bet the guy on the motorcycle would just whiz in his pants and bawl like a baby if faced with the same stuff Ezra fights.

I just wet myself.

Hmm...some ppl are just plain critical about everything. Yeah of course Sully is a hero, his quick thinking and skill was truly amazing - Robbie couldn't do it I am sure, but I don't think Sully would be able to pull of this stunt either. It was a frikin amazing jump.

Hmm...some ppl are just plain critical about everything. Yeah of course Sully is a hero, his quick thinking and skill was truly amazing - Robbie couldn't do it I am sure, but I don't think Sully would be able to pull of this stunt either. It was a frikin amazing jump.

I could never do this in the first place, but if I did anything even close, I would be retiring next.
Very impressive.