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Robbie Maddison takes a dirtbike surfing (video)
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tl:dr - pro freestyle motocrosser/daredevil on a dirt bike robbie madison takes a slightly modified dirtbike into the ocean in tahiti - blasting past tourists and kayakers who are like :wtf: and rides to 2 of the most famous wave breaks in the world - teahupoo, and papara ON A FUCKING DIRT BIKE! and he even has the power to outrun the crashing wave...extreme sports are going nuts


if you dont know or care about the action sports world, robbie maddison medaled in the xgames freestyle motocross a few times in the mid 00s, won redbull x-fighters a few times, and holds the world record for the longest jump on 3 different motorcycle engine sizes, a 125cc (221ft), and a 250cc (246ft with a superman seat-grab) and has beat his own record for longest jump on any motorcycle like 4 times, his latest trying to clear 400ft over the san diego bay, he came up short landing 391ft from the lip of the take-off in practice...on the night of the televised jump he only made it like 375 or 380 feet

but you may know him best as daniel craigs stunt double in skyfall - almost all of the motorcycle riding was robbie maddison and he won 2 awards for his stunts in that movie (when he was chasing the guy on the motorcycle across the rooftops)

hes sorta like a modern day evel kneivel...along with many other "never been done" jumps including jumping up 96 feet off a quarter pipe type of ramp and landed on top of some famous arch thing at the paris hotel in vegas - and to get down he jumped 80 feet basically back into the quarter pipe a little deep, causing him to land with almost no transition to flat - he ended up riding it out but with a broken and severely cut hand

he also backflipped the tower bridge in london with the drawbridge open 25ft and became the first person to successfully jump the corinth canal on an dirtbike (idk if it had been done before on like an old bike) but the jump ended up just over 260ft

well apparently for the past 2 years hes been dreaming up riding a wave on a dirt bike (makes sense considering hes from australia) - i honestly ironically was thinking about doing this exact thing but with a snowmobile like a few days ago, just throw some fatty skis on the front, and as long of a track as possible and youd be set - ive seen in snowboard vids where the pros dont give a fuck about the equipment cause its free, take a snowmobile made for powder and go hydroplane it across a lake or river and as long as youre going fast enough and dont lean forward you never sink (so you gotta keep it pinned) and i thought "you know with how easy that looks you could probably just keep your speed up and pull into a wave"

his way was a lot smarter putting small add ons to his bike so he could do it - a snowmobile wouldve been heavy as shit - i guess thats why it took him 2 years :lol:


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Re: Robbie Maddison takes a dirtbike surfing (video) [Re: trippinballs420]
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I saw this shit on facebook and it blew my mind.

I gotta argue with the
trippinballs420 said:
slightly modified dirtbike


part though, it looks pretty modded, it's not just the paddled tires, it's got like, some form of float or frame on the side of it as well.

That still doesn't take away from how bad ass it is, but I'd say it's definitely modified, not just slightly, maybe even perhaps heavily but still. Shit is bad ass.

It's always redbull and DC paying for people to do the gnarliest shit. Danny way over the great wall, Theres a sick trials biker riding across the support beams on a bridge and doing other crazy shit on a bike, and now riding a wave on a motorcycle? SICKKK.

Redbull kills it too, that guy riding a bike on a roller coaster, that dude jumping from "space" (technically wasn't "space" but fuck you, you know what I meant)

Shit's gnar.

I gotta start contacting them about my stupid ass ideas while I'm still under 25.


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Re: Robbie Maddison takes a dirtbike surfing (video) [Re: Psychonautica]
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thats why i italicized the slightly :lol: hes clearly got what looks like a short wake board with a slit in the middle on both the front and rear wheels, but it doesnt seem to effect his normal riding

not to mention that hes a pro rider - he told KTM and his other sponsors like FMF exactly what he wanted on the bike itself (intake, carb, engine size, exhaust, legit racing fuel) probably told them exactly how heavy and how much power/torque to give him and they delivered


yeah i saw the link for the trials dude riding the coaster but didnt click it....thats crazy too


and if you have a little bit of experience and a sport-changing idea redbull will suck your dick so good and youll get mad free shit to do the idea, just so redbull can claim another first time NBD trick or transfer or jump from a balloon capsule - they cant get enough events/people with their name plastered all over them


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Re: Robbie Maddison takes a dirtbike surfing (video) [Re: trippinballs420]
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and people say pressure washing your bike is bad for it :lol:



looked like that wave was gonna swallow him at the end

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Re: Robbie Maddison takes a dirtbike surfing (video) [Re: trippinballs420]
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hahaha that was SICK at the end when he came out of the big wave. i thought he was fucked for sure. you could see when he was riding up into the wave he was way too close to get past the break and he was gonna get hit by the wave. hes lucky to have made it out of that.


also, he doesnt really ride the waves on his bike. its more of wall ride and just steers out of the wave before it breaks, which is fair enough


that would be a pain in the ass to ride properly though, you'd just have to keep the throttle pinned the whole time and not be able to stop or you'll sink. like on a jetski, if you cut the throttle completely the jetski like jolts, cos it needs the propulsion to keep it goin, it cant just glide in the water. and the motorbike is prob the same


those nitro guys are nuts though i agree


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Re: Robbie Maddison takes a dirtbike surfing (video) [Re: Soulidarity]
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nah i think he slows down a few times and then guns it to get out of the way when the wave breaks - like i said its not a stock bike - hes actually got something to glide ontop of the water like a wakeboard or something and a MASSIVE paddle back tire - like what you would use in the dunes

you can even hear him fuckin with the throttle on the first wave where theres a shitload of people to slow down and get "into" the wave, i dont think he has to keep that thing pinned all the time to keep it from sinking - you can hydroplane a normal dirtbike hundreds if not thousands of feet (check travis pastrana) without sinking, so i know he doesnt have to keep it pinned the ENTIRE time

but that last wave he definitely HAD to have that bitch pinned :lol: seeing him pop out of the mist is crazy


and idk, to me hes riding a wave - that is surfing a dirtbike IMO



also Robbie Maddison isnt part of the nitro circus crew if thats what you meant by the nitro guys, hes actually a crusty dirt demon - but the nitro circus crew is the same craziness just different styles - the nitro circus guys just try to get whatever the fuck is possible landed on whatever is possible to get down their ramps....the crusty dirt demons are more like the metal mulisha - fuck rules, get drunk, go as big as fucking possible even if that means overshooting a landing to flat by like 50 feet and nearly dying


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Re: Robbie Maddison takes a dirtbike surfing (video) [Re: trippinballs420]
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Awesome. It's very well filmed as well.

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Re: Robbie Maddison takes a dirtbike surfing (video) [Re: GoldenEye]
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:lol: you can thank gopro and redbull for that - theyll throw crazy money into shit like this its INSANE how much money gopro and redbull have made in the past 10 years


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Re: Robbie Maddison takes a dirtbike surfing (video) [Re: trippinballs420] * 2
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Ya Ive been hearing that he did something crazy for the last few months i follow one of the guys that helped film it on instagram. His bike is definantly modded as fuck but like they said in my mind that takes nothing away from him. Ive hydroplaned little puddles and lost one of my old bikes in the lake one year trying to just go like 60 70 feet. That took skill and massive balls haha

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Re: Robbie Maddison takes a dirtbike surfing (video) [Re: trippinballs420] * 1
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Oh I mean you can wind down the throttle but you can't just cut it 100%, he'd have to keep it steady and I also think in the higher rev ranges to keep his momentum. It's epic no doubt though

That's what I meant though, like nitro/crusty demons all of them, they do crazy shit lol


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Re: Robbie Maddison takes a dirtbike surfing (video) [Re: Soulidarity]
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ahhh yeah i gotcha now, definitely gotta keep some throttle or youre fuuuuucked :lol: my 03 yz250f has a stock rev limiter set at 13,500rpm and from everything ive read its actually able to run 15,500rpm safely so i cant imagine his revs ever drop below like 10,000 rpm - maybe even 15,000 depending on his setup

i just read a different article saying this was a 2 YEAR (not month) project and took him 17 tries to get that run in......dude is a mad man.



and yeah all of those crews are just absolutely insane! crusty dirt demons, nitro circus, metal mulisha....those are the only ones i can really name :lol: but while i have never hung out with the nitro circus crew, a few of my friends have and are still good friends with streetbike tommy and hang out at travis' pastranas house all the time lol my friend learned to backflip in the famous foam pit actually.....and he didnt turn right :lol: so it was all good.


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