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Despite this, he jumped in Montreal on July 16th 17th & 18th, at the Montreal Forum, jumping 10, 12 & then 13 cars. He jumped 15 cars at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver BC on May 6th, 1972. Evel jumped 13 cars in Toronto (CNE Stadium) on July 4th, 1972.He jumped 12 cars at the CNE in Toronto on August 3rd, 1973 and then jumped 13 cars at the ...
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The origins of the group can be traced to 1994, when filmmakers Jon Freeman and Dana Nicholson had been accumulating footage to showcase a behind the scenes expose of the lifestyle of an American pro motocross rider in action, featuring 145 ft plus jumps, 45 ft high in the air soaring over sand dunes, mountains, houses, buses and anything else secure and steep enough to hold the weight of bike ...
He is an American motorcycle jumping world record holder and stunt performer and Stage 4 cancer survivor who lives in Oak Hill, Florida. [1] Danger has set many records, including the Longest Motorcycle Jump, which was 251 feet over 42 cars. With that jump, he entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1991. [2]
Knievel successfully jumped over 24 truck cabs at the Kings Island Amusement Park outside Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 24, 2008. The jump took place 33 years after his father made daredevil history by jumping over 14 Greyhound buses on a Harley-Davidson XR-750 [39] at Kings Island. [40] [41] Knievel jumping 21 Hummers at Texas Motor Speedway
Dirt jumping is the practice of riding bikes over jumps made of dirt or soil and becoming airborne. Dirt jumping evolved alongside BMX racing and is similar to BMX or mountain bike racing in that the rider jumps off of mounds of dirt, usually performing a midair trick in between. [ 1 ]
Prior to the failed practice jump, Knievel jumped either cars or trucks (or a combination of the two) on the XR-750. [17] Bubba Blackwell's Harley-Davidson XR-750 jump bike. The longest jump Knievel made over cars was 129 feet over 19 cars in 1971 and was featured in the movie Evel Knievel starring George Hamilton. [18]
Enslow was riding a customized Service Honda, which is basically a Honda 250 dirt bike with a 500cc two stroke engine. Enslow started jumping 120-foot (37 m) jumps and gradually pulled the ramp back, finishing with a 240-foot (73 m) jump before calling it a day due to increasing winds.