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On the anniversary of Evel Kneviel's Caesars Palace jump, Robbie Maddison just made the world record jump of 322 ft in Las Vegas with the blessing of the Knievel family.
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Holy smokes! Out of the blue he decided it wasn't good enough and he just did it again, almost the exact same distance.
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bet it wasn't on an old Triumph or HD though. Probably some dirt bike with tons of travel. To me thats not as impressive.
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Evel's longest jump was only 157 ft. 322ft is extremely impressive. He beat the current world record by almost 60ft.
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Extremely impressive indeed no matter what bike it was done on.
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And he's a Queenslander, I watched him race juniors a few yrs ago. He's mad....
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Great efford by an Aussie too
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Evel's longest jump was much farther than that...if you count downhill into the canyon! LOL
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Looks like it was a Honda dirtbike. Pretty impressive that he did it a second time.
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Very impressive, brave, and Stupid all at the same time. I am amazed. Good lucck to him in the future.
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 I would need wings for that.......
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Media reports stated he jumped 350 ft in a practice run. He plans to go for 400 ft, somebody called 911  Very impressive! Mike
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Did you notice the look on his wife/girlfriend's face during the second jump? I think she understood how impressive it was. The acceleration route through the parking garage on knobby tires was pretty impressive too.
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She did look awefully worried about the whole thing. She still wasnt smiling after the second jump. It's on YouTube now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvqbo3cH_xASoren
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I thought the the best shot was from the cam he was wearing. You could really see how he was drifting to the left. Truely amazing! 
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HOLY CRAP!!! That dude's CRAZY!!!  (wait a minute...he's from WHERE???...Oh, THAT explains it!!!) 
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The acceleration route through the parking garage on knobby tires was pretty impressive too.
Did you notice how close he came to that concrete pillar? These guys are using 250 2-strokes, maybe he needs to try that ATK Intimidator, a 700 2-stroke! Then he wouldn't need so long a run-up.
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When I watched it last nite I was just amazed!! Simply impressive, but then he jumps it again. Amazing!!
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I believe it was a Honda CR500 pinned in 5th gear clocking around 150kph!!! Thats around 90mph, for our US cousins....
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2:30 in the morning
Just got home from Tulsa Ok. Thru Las Vegas on new years eve.
And first hand the jump was AMAZING!
Good night all and happy new year!
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WOW!!!!!! Holy Moly.
Incredible,
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I believe it was a Honda CR500 pinned in 5th gear clocking around 150kph!!! Thats around 90mph, for our US cousins....
Check his site, it's a CR250. That's why he needs such a long run-up.
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That second jump you can see the wind affect as it nearly took him off the ramp. At that speed and momentum there in the bone busting record too! Well done, a bit nuts but well done!
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I believe it was a Honda CR500 pinned in 5th gear clocking around 150kph!!! Thats around 90mph, for our US cousins....
Check his site, it's a CR250. That's why he needs such a long run-up.
Its a CR500 2 stroke mounted in a modified 250 frame. At least that what he said during his pre-jump interview
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That made me laugh with joy, incredible!
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I believe it was a Honda CR500 pinned in 5th gear clocking around 150kph!!! Thats around 90mph, for our US cousins....
Check his site, it's a CR250. That's why he needs such a long run-up.
Its a CR500 2 stroke mounted in a modified 250 frame. At least that what he said during his pre-jump interview
My bad! Didn't see the interview.
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