@@Mancada100 evil Knieval had no idea how to jump a motorcycle…he had poor jumping skills for any motorcycle at best, his son Robbie was even worse…EK was nothing but an egomaniac self promoter that has so much Percocet coursing through his veins that he would rag doll himself for the cash people would throw at him…it’s really sad when you watch him now and I used to love him but the fact is…he was a terrible jumper…bad form…bad technique…just bad all the way around but that was his thing…people really want to see the crash not the jump
God said don’t do it, but he gave us a sunny and dry day so we uh, thought he changed his mind. But we did put up a cardboard box wall in front of the metal scaffolding. Ya see him bounce? Righto then... precautions.
I was there on the day and it is something I'll never forget. I recall that Robin had a number of dry runs to check the run up. When he made the attempt we were sure he was going slower than on the practice runs. It may have been a case of not wanting to let the large crowd down. All of the long distance jumps I have seen since this have had a much longer straight run up before the ramp, maybe turning just before the ramp made it too hard too judge. Brave man, RIP.
@@CinemaDemocratica Im sure thats exactly how it went. Then impact and lights out. His brain hit the inside of his skull just as hard as his body hit that truck so he probably didnt feel much if anything.
"Quite possibly he did not go fast enough to make it all the way to the ramp". Man O Man am I glad I had that guy telling me what happened or else I would have never known it.
I honestly didn't realize how stupid that guy's statement was, hearing it myself just now -- but yeah, that's like that time that John Madden said, "See, Pat, the team that's able to score more points, they almost always win the game."
@@My_Fair_Lady Have you ever heard the word "sarcasm"? If not this is a link to a definition of it: the use of irony to mock or convey contempt. Just like the opinion I have of you: " contempt "
I remeber Evel saying, ' If you don't go out there and think you are Superman, and hit that take off ramp as fast as you can, you're never gonna make it'!
That's exactly what I thought. I'm surprised if that bike would do 90mph. When he pulled away it didn't sound that healthy either. Sounded like it was bogging down. That could be down to the modified gearing I guess.
I’m a surgeon, that kind of rapid deceleration cannot be survived! What an insane assault to the abdominal aorta, the brain stem the cervical spine, and so many other things that suddenly are destroyed upon that kind of impact!
Christo and Glenn I just don’t understand myself. The risks far outweigh the money, girls and a little fame. I’ll stick to fishing and blues and rock guitar playing. I sincerely do not understand. But I do see they have passion for it. 6 broken bones in my life. Last 2 were the tibia and fibia at my ankle when the pit Bull next door came at me. Jumped at my front door step to get between the storm door and front door. Everybody’s a daredevil until you break a bone ( or 2).
@@JohnDoe-jc3cl I've no pain response. So I'm foolhardy & clumsy. Wounds, dog bites & injuries are par for the course. I've fought some formidable dogs over the years & pitbulls only let go by fisting them up their arses. Then you've got to get the headlock asap.
Yes but nowadays they will throw a double backflip into the jump of that size and jump much further. I watched as Dale Buggins from Australia broke the world record and I would have thought nobody will ever go that far again and nowadays it is just a MX jump.
They still make brand new 2-strokes YZ125 and 250 KTM and Husqvarna and more. I wish they still made Kawasaki and Honda 2-stroke dirt bikes 125cc 250cc and 500cc
The moment he launched from the ramp, he would have certainly known that he wasn’t going to make it. At that instant, all you can do is hope that it’s not going to hurt too bad…..then there’s the last thought of “I guess this is it.”
I'm astonished, spooked and shocked to have this video show randomly on my feed tonight on the very day it happened 45 years ago? The date is wrong, it happened (today) July 8th 1979 (**DATE ALSO CONFIRMED BY HIS GRAVE**.) I was also there at Elstree aeroclub for the event / airshow run as a memorial to 4 club members who were tragically killed a year to the day before (Sunday, which was the 9th the year before.) Three of them were very dear friends and I and my family were deeply impacted by their tragic loss. As my father was on the club committee, I & my family were stood between the crowd and the point of impact. What I saw when 'Smudger' crashed not more than 20 feet in front of me, still haunts me, as does the plane crash for very personal reasons. Tomorrow (July 9th) will always be a very difficult day for me sadly. R.I.P CM, DM, BG and Robin Winter Smith.
I can find nothing that confirms the July 8th date except a wiki reference to an article supposedly written on July 9th, 1979. But Wiki is frequently wrong. Most websites site the Oct 7th date. Can you provide a link to a newspaper article. I don't want to pay to access archives. Update: About 10 posts down, I finally found the video on APs website and it was created July 9th. The date is wrong in this video.
@@mas5867 I am astonished that you had the audacity to post your comment and ask that question about a link to the newspaper article because you don't want to pay to access archives. Seriously in bad form. Really.
@@mas5867 I only have my personal diaries as proof, that and my memory of the event being staged on the anniversary of the plane crash ( which is fully documented in the media) I can assure you, my date is 100% correct.
The man who spoke at the end is the quintessential British person that I imagine all British men and women to be like. Unemotional and matter of fact in anything and everything. Except football.
@@bricaaron3978 the brits called it colonialism firstly, the imperialism then the commonwealth, you're right does sound nicer but still same crap, bet you were sad at the election
It looks like he was moving around a bit @1:00-1:17, if that’s him. This stuff is disturbing I’m not sure why I watch it. A friend of mine died racing motorcycles on a track, rapid deceleration like that does a lot of internal damage. They can talk and move around and respond for a short while in shock and then succumb after a minute or two. So tragic.
@randell geuy I think that's his crewman. If you look there's another guy dressed the same to the far left. They seem to be wearing some none-protectuve white "helmets". When they pulled him out he was in a different helmet and it doesn't look like he was moving. It's sad to see to be honest.
Q: “Were there any special precautionary measures today?” A: “Yes we had an ambulance and a couple of doctors on standby.” In hindsight a priest and a hearse should have had those seats.
@@thefreedomguyuk you’re completely wrong…you can tell by the way the rpm’s peak out that his clutch was slipping…I’ve raced two strokes for over 20 years and know exactly how you ride them
He had to hit at least 90mph on a Suzuki 250 coming off a 30 degree angle. Those Bikes topped out at 80mph I believe and that take off ramp looked like a yardstick Insane.
If you look at the ramp on take off, it visibly dropped a lot when the bike hit it, as if it was on ground that wasn't really firm enough for the speed and force of the bike. The bike was going fast but the ramp absorbed some of the speed, sending the bike on a lower trajectory than had the ramp been on a firmer, (more) solid base.
The guy that he interviewed that does not even know what he's talking about you can hit jumps like this at slower speeds he caught too much air I can do this jump myself on a KTM with a modified suspension
@David Zurik Buddy that had about 6 inches of soft travel... he blew the stroke and it robbed his speed as he G’d out uo the face... no way he “got too much air”, there’s not enough travel to cause him to seat bounce and if he did he’d go further than intended... that’s the whole point in seat bouncing out of corners in supercross and motocross, or if you have to hit something like laraccos leap at redbud on a 250F. Needing Modified suspension on new 250 and 450F’s to hit that 🤣🤣 Besides valving and resprung for my weight, my forks and shock are bone stock, sent it over 200ft in the dunes. Never a problem. Take it from a motocross and supercross racer on this one.
Im not talking as a nobody, I made expert in 1988 and did some crazy jumps I have gone as far as 110 feet thats on tracks in a race and what I learned was how ever fast you think you need to go ... go faster!!!
Similar to a lesson I was taught dirt oval racing. When going into a turn you hold the accelerator pedal as long as you think you possibly can. Then hold it longer. Then let off.
People appeared older on camera back in those days, like when you look at pictures of Civil War generals, they look like they're 64 years old even though they were in their 40s, it's also how like when we were in first and second grade, our teachers looked like they were 51 but they are all in their mid or upper 20s, maybe 30s
My 2024 YZ450F is so much fun compared to my two stroke. Just push button and go. I still have my 2001 RM 250 two smoker. It's fast and fun to look back while berm blasting.
What was the cause of death? When his crew and emergency approached it seemed he was conscious and mobile (I'm assuming the person in the helmet struggling to get out of the boxes was Robin).
Even though we share the same name, I'm embarrassed to admit it. That's a two-stroke twin--extremely powerful and with tons of torque relative to any four-stroke twin or inline-4..
As many have pointed out, there's a lot of things wrong with this jump. At the beginning it looked like his altitude was petty good, that's probably why he crossed up as he was probably confident that he was going to make it. However, at about two thirds of the way down he suddenly started dropping fast.
So, by your theory, the pull of gravity suddenly increased about 2/3rds of the way through the jump??? Screwtube is filled with people saying the dumbest shit, like you did...
DAAMMMMMMMMNNNN ! It was hard watching someone die in such a traumatic way. Life can end in the blink of an eye so live, laugh and love while you are here on this big blue rock
The man died doing what he loved but never the less a sad day. I always remember Eddie Kidd in England but just read that he had a bad accident and now paralyzed plus brain damage.
You can't change horizontal motion to vertical motion that fast . Ramp should have been longer and more gradual. Lifting weight of rider and bike gradually.
What was he even thinking when he crossed up the bars mid-flight like a motocrosser going over a short, simple berm? That could have done nothing but disrupt the aerodynamics. Not by much, but then he missed the jump by not that much.
Clearly written by someone who has never ridden a motocross bike. If you're doing cross-up over a short, simple berm you are crashing. A berm is not a jump, a berm is a turn.
Dude just yeeted into the side of a ramp and they swoop in and move him all around. It's like, hey, no need to stabilize his neck and spine. Just peel him off the ramp and out of the 1 layer of cardboard boxes that seriously cushioned the blow to the side of the ramp. Unbelievable! Sad too.
I was there at Elstree with my wife and young baby. I said he's going to die, so let's go. The young stunt team had already had a stack, and a younger rider broke his leg l. We went home to Parke Street near St Albans and it was on the news. I'm happy we left and didn't see it.
I bet everyone who has put a sarcastic or foolish comment behind this video couldn't even ride that ole yellow beast, let alone jump it so far. What a fucking legend. People try to dress that way and ride those old machines to look the part these days. You can recreate that vibe. If he landed that jump you would of all commented on amazing he was, but he died trying to do something that he believed in! Quality bloke in my view.
That “old yellow beast” isn’t as bad ass as you seem to think. I own and thrash an old orange beast…a 450 Husqvarna. It’s much more beastly and dangerous to ride. I’ve jumped it big multiple times. This guy was a moron, you can tell the bike was off by the sound, but he went anyway. It sounded like the bike was horribly lean, like it was about to let go. My brother has a Zuki 125 from the same era, and his lil yellow beastie sounds more mean than that bike did. Some say he took too many run ups, some say the bike wasn’t running right, all we know is he is NOT the Stig.
That was doomed from the beginning....90mph on that bike? Not likely. And no windscreen on his helmet? Every tried to ride to ride 90mph with no eye protection? It's impossible to see anything clearly. And tailwind only applies to aircraft.
Yep you are right, I was a good friend of Dale Buggins the Australian who broke the world record years ago and the next day it was ok that's done back to work, but if he had have died from the jump then we all would have remembered the jump a lot more. Sad but true. RIP my friend Dale.
Before attempting something this crazy and this dangerous one really should check the numbers with a mathematician to come up with an exact speed required.
Just watched that at 0.25x speed. A horrifying impact....to be fair though, even if he'd gone far enough he'd still have (atleast) life changing injuries judging by the angle of approach.
I did the same thing, too; it looks like he went into the scaffolding as opposed to landing on it. The fact that he and the bike just stopped all forward momentum in the blink of an eye is all you need to know.
My hero was Eddie Kidd..i was so lucky i had a cheeky older sister and friend who when we watched him in chester blagged there way out to the back were i met him (Eddie) very handsome he was i think i was around 10 so 1982 and in the back of this wagon was Eddie's chromed up motircross jumper which i was able to sit on,what a day....i was in tears watching that documentary about Eddie just so stupid with all the daring stunts he'd done...
@@ChrisRansom-z4b I know I can see it in the title🤔I was just waxing lyrical about an amazing stunt rider in Eddie... who was brave enough to say in a documentary months/years after his accident that he was drinking and using coke the night before his near death accident doing a stunt he used to do probably when he was a kid on his BMX it could of happened anyway... Eddie Kidd was the real deal if he'd been American he'd of been of the scale rich and known around the world...this bloke on TH-cam I'd never heard of before but I definitely knew it wasn't Eddie Kidd because of the title🧐🤪😜😏....👍
Back in these days even if the conditions were bad people expected the event to go ahead, he had zero fear, all he needed was a tail wind and he'd have made in ,died a happy guy riding his bike 🇬🇧🙏🤠💯
On the approach, like 80 yards before he launched off the ramp, he slowly turned right to begin the straightaway approach to the takeoff ramp. In the air, his bike was not straight but rather canted slightly to the left. Thus, I wonder if, as he was climbing the takeoff ramp, he was accelerating while still turning sligntly left because he was still overcorrecting due to the non-straight approach. If so, this slight left cant or turn in the air perhaps cost him 4 feet on the landing due to air resistance while he was in the air.
same concept, ,if your standing on railroad tracks with a train coming at you doing 80 , putting on glasses or face shield will help your chances of surviving
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Evel Knievel explained it better: "Anybody can jump on a bike; the trouble starts when you try to land it!"
Evel would have said " Anyone can jump ON a bike" not in a bike. Duh.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
You have to approach the launch ramp straight or your landing is doomed. This guy would have wiped even if he had cleared.
"IN a bike", wow...
@@Mancada100 evil Knieval had no idea how to jump a motorcycle…he had poor jumping skills for any motorcycle at best, his son Robbie was even worse…EK was nothing but an egomaniac self promoter that has so much Percocet coursing through his veins that he would rag doll himself for the cash people would throw at him…it’s really sad when you watch him now and I used to love him but the fact is…he was a terrible jumper…bad form…bad technique…just bad all the way around but that was his thing…people really want to see the crash not the jump
Ol chap at the end doing the interview was like, oh well, let's go have a spot of tea.
!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Hahahah
😅
The interview at the end almost sounds like a Monty Python skit.
However, completely lacking the brains that Monty Python put ito their sketches.
Imagine if that wasn’t his real voice; he’d just put it on for this interview 🤭
So flat and deadpan in tone.
@@DAngeloDino Yep, the British invented the deadpan.
No, stop that!
_Silleh._
"Any Precautionary measures...?"
"We had an ambulance."
God said don’t do it, but he gave us a sunny and dry day so we uh, thought he changed his mind. But we did put up a cardboard box wall in front of the metal scaffolding. Ya see him bounce? Righto then... precautions.
And St John's Ambulance. FFS.
And a couple of old mattresses scattered around 👍🏴😂
And a paramedic 😢
1:48 and err...
Super Dave is the only person to survive something like this.
That's awesome. It's good to see somebody else mention Super Dave.
Super Dave Osbourne... legend.
Hahaha I forgot l about Super Dave.
Super Dave survived a car crusher with just a nosebleed.
Balloon ball...balloon ball
“Missed it by that much!”
Maxwell Smart
Stolen
🤣 I thought I was only old enough to remember that
U BEAT ME TO IT😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
I loved that show.
@@raymondperales6612 Me too! One of my favorite after school shows to watch and Gilligan's Island of course.
I was there on the day and it is something I'll never forget. I recall that Robin had a number of dry runs to check the run up. When he made the attempt we were sure he was going slower than on the practice runs. It may have been a case of not wanting to let the large crowd down. All of the long distance jumps I have seen since this have had a much longer straight run up before the ramp, maybe turning just before the ramp made it too hard too judge. Brave man, RIP.
For real u were there😱😱😱
@@jtmacgamevlogs4544 I was about 17 at the time and lived about 5 miles from Elstree Aerodrome (the venue). It was a massive reality check.
Funny... Every time i come to the comments of a video like this, 15 people knew him, 5 were present durring the fatality and 2 tried CPR
Omg he broke his neck on impaked
@@torimig2151 omg you cant spell. 🙄
That was brutal.
RIP young man
That reasonable fraction of a second there, where he must have been thinking, "Aw man, this is gonna suck."
thats a stupid choice to make a living doing jumps, breaking bones, THINGS don't always work out, and no there is no 51 second WTF.
@@CinemaDemocratica Im sure thats exactly how it went. Then impact and lights out. His brain hit the inside of his skull just as hard as his body hit that truck so he probably didnt feel much if anything.
@@CinemaDemocratica Deceleration is a killer.
And stupid
"Quite possibly he did not go fast enough to make it all the way to the ramp". Man O Man am I glad I had that guy telling me what happened or else I would have never known it.
The original Captain Obvious, obviously.
I honestly didn't realize how stupid that guy's statement was, hearing it myself just now -- but yeah, that's like that time that John Madden said, "See, Pat, the team that's able to score more points, they almost always win the game."
@@My_Fair_Lady Have you ever heard the word "sarcasm"? If not this is a link to a definition of it: the use of irony to mock or convey contempt. Just like the opinion I have of you: " contempt "
Yea, "quite possibly" 🤣
@@My_Fair_Lady , A little slow are you? 😀
I remeber Evel saying, ' If you don't go out there and think you are Superman, and hit that take off ramp as fast as you can, you're never gonna make it'!
He’s right, and getting loaded on 8 Balls and quarts of JD is a great way to feel invincibile.
90 mph, on a late 70s/early 80s RM 250, not on stock gearing.
Brave attempt, respect.
Brave? I think stupid is the right word.
If it was even going 80 I’d be surprised.
That's exactly what I thought. I'm surprised if that bike would do 90mph. When he pulled away it didn't sound that healthy either. Sounded like it was bogging down. That could be down to the modified gearing I guess.
I had a 78 rm250b. And it would dam near hit 90. Now my 79 xr500 will clear 90 👍🏻
@@rufusdavies2160 I heard engine misfiring or loading up
I’m a surgeon, that kind of rapid deceleration cannot be survived! What an insane assault to the abdominal aorta, the brain stem the cervical spine, and so many other things that suddenly are destroyed upon that kind of impact!
Yeah, talk about a sudden stop
If it had been where he rolled 100 yards or something he probably would have survived. But that was just a splat.
@@DonFonzarelli-uq9yx!!!! 🤣
I'm not a surgeon, and I could tell that he couldn't survive either.
So did he have serious injury
@@user-rl8mq9uf7b !!!! 🤣🤣. DUH !!! Nothin gets by you hey ?
The bike running afterwards is eerie as hell!
Yeah I was thinking what the hell too
Especially with his helmet on the exhaust.
Takes a lickin and keeps on to tickin
Motorcycle kept running but he did not 😔
no shit i was going to make the exact comment
I never could understand why people do these things. The risks far outweigh the rewards.
Attention seekers know no limits.
Christo and
Glenn
I just don’t understand myself. The risks far outweigh the money, girls and a little fame.
I’ll stick to fishing and blues and rock guitar playing.
I sincerely do not understand.
But I do see they have passion for it.
6 broken bones in my life. Last 2 were the tibia and fibia at my ankle when the pit Bull next door came at me. Jumped at my front door step to get between the storm door and front door.
Everybody’s a daredevil until you break a bone ( or 2).
@@JohnDoe-jc3cl I've no pain response. So I'm foolhardy & clumsy. Wounds, dog bites & injuries are par for the course. I've fought some formidable dogs over the years & pitbulls only let go by fisting them up their arses. Then you've got to get the headlock asap.
Ask evel knievel. Hell strongly disagree.
Yes but nowadays they will throw a double backflip into the jump of that size and jump much further. I watched as Dale Buggins from Australia broke the world record and I would have thought nobody will ever go that far again and nowadays it is just a MX jump.
Dyin ain't much of a living.
- Clint Eastwood
...boy.🤔
Love the sound of the old two strokes. Reminds me of me youth.
They still make brand new 2-strokes YZ125 and 250 KTM and Husqvarna and more. I wish they still made Kawasaki and Honda 2-stroke dirt bikes 125cc 250cc and 500cc
@@danbosman2246 Largest 2 strokes nowadays are 300cc as KTM, Husqvarna ,Sherco...
They sound the same as today's two strokes
Remember montessa
@@tabstabs1204 The banshee 350 outscreams them all.
I don't think it takes a expert to figure out he wasn't going fast enough
With a grass run-up, at an angle. Jeebus Christmas on a pink-painted bicycle; what the hell was he thinking?
@@CinemaDemocratica !!!!! 🤣
@@cowboymouth6429 !!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🫵
The moment he launched from the ramp, he would have certainly known that he wasn’t going to make it. At that instant, all you can do is hope that it’s not going to hurt too bad…..then there’s the last thought of “I guess this is it.”
Wow. Such insight. How many jumps like this have you done?
!!!!! 🤣
@@eriklarson9137!!!!! 🤣🤣😂
Not just the speed but the first ramp sent him all over! R.I.p.
too much kick
I'm astonished, spooked and shocked to have this video show randomly on my feed tonight on the very day it happened 45 years ago? The date is wrong, it happened (today) July 8th 1979 (**DATE ALSO CONFIRMED BY HIS GRAVE**.) I was also there at Elstree aeroclub for the event / airshow run as a memorial to 4 club members who were tragically killed a year to the day before (Sunday, which was the 9th the year before.) Three of them were very dear friends and I and my family were deeply impacted by their tragic loss. As my father was on the club committee, I & my family were stood between the crowd and the point of impact. What I saw when 'Smudger' crashed not more than 20 feet in front of me, still haunts me, as does the plane crash for very personal reasons. Tomorrow (July 9th) will always be a very difficult day for me sadly. R.I.P CM, DM, BG and Robin Winter Smith.
I can find nothing that confirms the July 8th date except a wiki reference to an article supposedly written on July 9th, 1979. But Wiki is frequently wrong. Most websites site the Oct 7th date.
Can you provide a link to a newspaper article. I don't want to pay to access archives.
Update: About 10 posts down, I finally found the video on APs website and it was created July 9th. The date is wrong in this video.
@@mas5867 I am astonished that you had the audacity to post your comment and ask that question about a link to the newspaper article because you don't want to pay to access archives. Seriously in bad form. Really.
@@mas5867 I only have my personal diaries as proof, that and my memory of the event being staged on the anniversary of the plane crash ( which is fully documented in the media) I can assure you, my date is 100% correct.
I am so sorry for your loss. Thank you for your comments. My heart ❤ goes out to you and all your Family. A dreadful tragedy 😢
@@daviddawkins1 Thank you for your kind words. Two of the worst days imaginable that changed my life forever. 😥
Just for the record... I was not there and I didn't even know about this until today....
You and me both. Glad they had an explanation of what happened though. I mean, who coulda figured out what went wrong🤔
The man who spoke at the end is the quintessential British person that I imagine all British men and women to be like. Unemotional and matter of fact in anything and everything.
Except football.
That's how Britain was before the colonialism.
He looks like an football too ha ha ha
There was no colonialism before britain, learn your history ffs!!!!!
@@SauzeeGod There's no such thing as 'colonialism'. It's an attempt to make a bad word out of something that is entirely natural.
@@bricaaron3978 the brits called it colonialism firstly, the imperialism then the commonwealth, you're right does sound nicer but still same crap, bet you were sad at the election
So creepy how it's still revving up without him
That's the sound of death!!!
Suzuki RMs always had sticky throtles
The engine lived on, the rider not so much.
@@user-zh3yr5lp1knope...the sound of death is complete silence.
@@brandon-be8rmhow would you know ? How many times have you died ??
They certainly interviewed the right guy after the jump!
😂
Yeah hes a right smart arse
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@@jerryfraker377 !!!!!!! 🫵🫵🤣🤣🤣
The second he left the ramp. He knew he was in trouble. I would not want to imagine what he was thinking.
he was thinking i fucked up this time
@Daddy Savage Bikes don't turn mid-air. I'm sure he knew that but figured he might as well try anyway. Couldn't hurt.
@Daddy Savage that turn might have done him in, too much drag
He was thinking “hey, did I turn off the iron? Maybe I should get a puppy.”
The last thing going through his mind was his arse.
Rest in Eternal Peace, young man...
Ya. He still flying.
Well if he wasn't dead on impact he sure died when those people started tugging and pulling him from the wreck w/o backboard and c-collar.
Yeah, he was dead on impact.
@@generalyellor8188 you talk like you know with certainty. 🤦🏻♂️
It looks like he was moving around a bit @1:00-1:17, if that’s him. This stuff is disturbing I’m not sure why I watch it. A friend of mine died racing motorcycles on a track, rapid deceleration like that does a lot of internal damage. They can talk and move around and respond for a short while in shock and then succumb after a minute or two. So tragic.
@@generalyellor8188 lmao stfu that's straight bullshit do your research child
@randell geuy I think that's his crewman. If you look there's another guy dressed the same to the far left. They seem to be wearing some none-protectuve white "helmets". When they pulled him out he was in a different helmet and it doesn't look like he was moving. It's sad to see to be honest.
Q: “Were there any special precautionary measures today?”
A: “Yes we had an ambulance and a couple of doctors on standby.”
In hindsight a priest and a hearse should have had those seats.
Dude, that comment was brutal, but I can’t stop laughing!! 🤣
It shouldn't have but your comment made me laugh out loud. 😂
his clutch was totally slipping. You can hear it when he crosse the field...
Doubt it.
Slipping all the way to Texas.
@@scottmatthews172 they're fuckin brits what else would you expect, do everything half ass.
Are we sure the Mayflower set sail from their shore
Nope, that's the way to ride a 2 stroker
@@thefreedomguyuk you’re completely wrong…you can tell by the way the rpm’s peak out that his clutch was slipping…I’ve raced two strokes for over 20 years and know exactly how you ride them
Are we going to acknowledge how well built that bike was? it was still kicking and roaring.
Experts were able to prove he wasn't going fast enough
Hell, the last rolls Royce in line and the landing ramp proved that theory.
lol, don’t know what how we’d manage without those experts
He had to hit at least 90mph on a Suzuki 250 coming off a 30 degree angle. Those Bikes topped out at 80mph I believe and that take off ramp looked like a yardstick
Insane.
Suicidal. He had no business trying to hit that ramp at an angle with this much at stake.
EXACTLY, way too many faults 🙏
It wasn't a stock RM250
If you look at the ramp on take off, it visibly dropped a lot when the bike hit it, as if it was on ground that wasn't really firm enough for the speed and force of the bike. The bike was going fast but the ramp absorbed some of the speed, sending the bike on a lower trajectory than had the ramp been on a firmer, (more) solid base.
I thought the same thing. Did not sound solid.
This jump was doomed from the moment he left the ramp
sam powell Thank you Captain Obvious. Duh!
The guy that he interviewed that does not even know what he's talking about you can hit jumps like this at slower speeds he caught too much air I can do this jump myself on a KTM with a modified suspension
@David Zurik Buddy that had about 6 inches of soft travel... he blew the stroke and it robbed his speed as he G’d out uo the face... no way he “got too much air”, there’s not enough travel to cause him to seat bounce and if he did he’d go further than intended... that’s the whole point in seat bouncing out of corners in supercross and motocross, or if you have to hit something like laraccos leap at redbud on a 250F.
Needing Modified suspension on new 250 and 450F’s to hit that 🤣🤣
Besides valving and resprung for my weight, my forks and shock are bone stock, sent it over 200ft in the dunes. Never a problem.
Take it from a motocross and supercross racer on this one.
@@yamahakid450f that was a 79 rm 250 and stock it had 11 inches of travel .
It was doomed from the moment they built the ramp.
Im not talking as a nobody, I made expert in 1988 and did some crazy jumps I have gone as far as 110 feet thats on tracks in a race and what I learned was how ever fast you think you need to go ... go faster!!!
Similar to a lesson I was taught dirt oval racing. When going into a turn you hold the accelerator pedal as long as you think you possibly can. Then hold it longer. Then let off.
@@ib1rcnut yep, and another good one is pretend every corner is the first one out of the gate!!lol
You can also die going too fast and out jumping the ramp. Robbie Knievel got busted up pretty bad over jumping on his Grand Canyon jump.
I'm no expert but I think he stopped a bit too sudden.
I'm not an expert, either, but, I would whole heartedly agree. The jump was great. The landing,,,not so much.
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its obvious to me, that the man did nt need to jump, for the money -look how many rolls royces he had
Handlebars sure have come a long way since then
It's crazy how when you see old footage, no matter who is shown, they all look like they're 45
People appeared older on camera back in those days, like when you look at pictures of Civil War generals, they look like they're 64 years old even though they were in their 40s, it's also how like when we were in first and second grade, our teachers looked like they were 51 but they are all in their mid or upper 20s, maybe 30s
They were
44, you mean.
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I had one of those RM250 2 stroke bikes, absolutely the best bike I have ever ridden!
I believe that was a 79’ model. I had a 77’ RM250 what a beast!!
Cheers,
@@dennishough3709
I had the 80 YZ 465 before my buddy got the new YZ 490 when they came out!
We had the best times on those 2-Strokes!
My 2024 YZ450F is so much fun compared to my two stroke. Just push button and go. I still have my 2001 RM 250 two smoker. It's fast and fun to look back while berm blasting.
@@FarmerFpv
Dude, that was the 80's
I couldn't even imagine the difference in how far they've come!
Tear it up man! Be safe!
Impressed that he was able to round up all the RR's.
I was sure none were damaged until people started standing on them to rescue the pizza.
The entrance prior to the jump looked like a funeral procession to me!
What was the cause of death? When his crew and emergency approached it seemed he was conscious and mobile (I'm assuming the person in the helmet struggling to get out of the boxes was Robin).
Motorcycle accident
Risking your life on a bike that sounded like it would have trouble overtaking a milk float!
Even though we share the same name, I'm embarrassed to admit it. That's a two-stroke twin--extremely powerful and with tons of torque relative to any four-stroke twin or inline-4..
@@generalyellor8188 pretty sure it's a 79 Suzuki RM250. It's a single, not a twin. Around 35hp
@@generalyellor8188 wrong
Seriously. The bike crashed and someone immediately started a weed-whacker
@@generalyellor8188 you should be embarrassed for not knowing what you’re talking about. That’s a single cylinder two-stroke RM 250 made by Suzuki.
Kinda sounds like he's the one that did the math and he's trying to get ahead of the blame game.
As many have pointed out, there's a lot of things wrong with this jump. At the beginning it looked like his altitude was petty good, that's probably why he crossed up as he was probably confident that he was going to make it. However, at about two thirds of the way down he suddenly started dropping fast.
So, by your theory, the pull of gravity suddenly increased about 2/3rds of the way through the jump???
Screwtube is filled with people saying the dumbest shit, like you did...
@@billymacktexasdetective5827 Do you feel like a big man now?
That bike clearly crossed up very early , changing the aerodynamics slowing the bike's speed as gravity does it's thing.
The bike absorbed alot
Of energy when it first transitioned on the first ramp the launch was not smooth at all from there it just got worse.rip
@erikkopsala3564 Yes it got squirrely immediately.
DAAMMMMMMMMNNNN !
It was hard watching someone die in such a traumatic way. Life can end in the blink of an eye so live, laugh and love while you are here on this big blue rock
But he did have a choice..
I've never had my life end in the "blink of an eye" but I had enough sense to stay off the stupid motorcycle! Lol
@@1suspect241 !!!!!!! 🤣🤣
That was brutal to watch before the take off, I was saying oh God, R.I.P man,that took more balls then I have ever seen 😢
How many balls did you see ?
Hard to watch but I do respect showing the attempt in it’s entirety. A great dare Devil , it’s a shame it ended the way it did.
Dumb people don't live long...especially show offs
He should have hit the eject button. I've watched enough James Bond movies to know the Brits have that technology.
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The man died doing what he loved but never the less a sad day. I always remember Eddie Kidd in England but just read that he had a bad accident and now paralyzed plus brain damage.
He was so close. A little faster
It seems riders jumped back then by the seat of their pants. I didn't even see a speedometer on this rider's bike, and that is nuts.
I'd be really impressed if a 250 2 stroke ever got to 90 mph, he may never had a chance
You can't change horizontal motion to vertical motion that fast . Ramp should have been longer and more gradual. Lifting weight of rider and bike gradually.
A 1980 Suzuki RM 250 was and still is never intended to reach 90 MPH
What was he even thinking when he crossed up the bars mid-flight like a motocrosser going over a short, simple berm? That could have done nothing but disrupt the aerodynamics. Not by much, but then he missed the jump by not that much.
General Yellor.
A bike is not aerodynamic...
I thought the same thing.
Clearly written by someone who has never ridden a motocross bike. If you're doing cross-up over a short, simple berm you are crashing. A berm is not a jump, a berm is a turn.
He was thinking " I'm going to die"
I remember this well. It was shocking then and now.
Dude just yeeted into the side of a ramp and they swoop in and move him all around. It's like, hey, no need to stabilize his neck and spine. Just peel him off the ramp and out of the 1 layer of cardboard boxes that seriously cushioned the blow to the side of the ramp. Unbelievable! Sad too.
Yes Karen that would have really helped, with his chest caved it from hitting the ramp at that speed and his head internally decapitated.
I was there at Elstree with my wife and young baby. I said he's going to die, so let's go. The young stunt team had already had a stack, and a younger rider broke his leg l. We went home to Parke Street near St Albans and it was on the news. I'm happy we left and didn't see it.
Expecting a TS250 to hit 90mph is a bit much to ask in any condition. He looked like he was doing 60mph or so. Crazy.
motorcycle unsuitable for that type of jump
It was an RS, not a TS.
@@SomeTechGuy666 Fair point. Still, not a great choice.
There are a lot of non-riders in these comments.
@@TheBlueDogMan Maybe just non-jumpers.
Missed it by that much!... ~Maxwell Smart
I bet everyone who has put a sarcastic or foolish comment behind this video couldn't even ride that ole yellow beast, let alone jump it so far. What a fucking legend. People try to dress that way and ride those old machines to look the part these days. You can recreate that vibe. If he landed that jump you would of all commented on amazing he was, but he died trying to do something that he believed in! Quality bloke in my view.
You are right. I wouldn’t do dumb shit like this.
Shut Up!!!!!!!!!!
Quality bloke? Stupid bloke is more like it.
The only person I can think of that's tried this on anything close to an old school bike is Bubba Blackwell, and he's had some nasty crashes.
That “old yellow beast” isn’t as bad ass as you seem to think. I own and thrash an old orange beast…a 450 Husqvarna. It’s much more beastly and dangerous to ride. I’ve jumped it big multiple times. This guy was a moron, you can tell the bike was off by the sound, but he went anyway. It sounded like the bike was horribly lean, like it was about to let go. My brother has a Zuki 125 from the same era, and his lil yellow beastie sounds more mean than that bike did. Some say he took too many run ups, some say the bike wasn’t running right, all we know is he is NOT the Stig.
"He might have not gone fast enough". Genius.
That is the definition of rapid deceleration sickness. RIP mate.
That was doomed from the beginning....90mph on that bike? Not likely. And no windscreen on his helmet? Every tried to ride to ride 90mph with no eye protection? It's impossible to see anything clearly. And tailwind only applies to aircraft.
Play stupid games you win stupid prizes
Yea. If you ride bikes you learn real quick you need glasses on if you don’t have full helmet.
Meanwhile Evil Knievel sitting in his livingroom watching, says: hold on to my beer.
Yeah, as in, hold my beer while I show you how to survive a miss like that with only 22 broken bones.
Sounded like that bike wasn’t running very good when he pulled away from the camera, went flat for a bit
Should've been riding a CR500! Would've jumped into the next town!
Or a Yamaha YZ450
Poor guy. He didn't realize that nobody was going to give a damn the next day if he made it or not. He gambled with his life for nothing and lost.
Yep you are right, I was a good friend of Dale Buggins the Australian who broke the world record years ago and the next day it was ok that's done back to work, but if he had have died from the jump then we all would have remembered the jump a lot more. Sad but true. RIP my friend Dale.
I guess I didn't think before making such a stupid comment. Please accept my apology.
@@paulh7589 !!!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
An RM 250? I knew fro the start he was doomed. Why not the 400
I knew from the start it was doomed.
It say's so in the title.
That year it was an RM465
@@drippinglass No the RM465 only came out in 1981.
As an ole moto bike jumper kid
That was brutal to watch
Truly sad for this man.
That rickety launch ramp is where it went wrong, or the entrance to the launch ramp
The problem is the ramp threshold is too high for cars. I believe it was designed for single decker buses.
Too high with bus he will still alive.he take wall .
I’m just glad the guy at the end cleared up what went wrong.
Outstanding! Definitely worth the price of admission!
I know. Cant wait to see where he is taking the show next!
@@peterquinn8419!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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If Sir Sugar Lord Alan hadn't parked his Rolls in there by mistake, rider would have made it
That must be the white one right in the middle.
That's about a bad a casing as I have seen,brutally deadly. Poor devil,God speed.....bless his heart
I was going to say the same thing but figured no one knew what it was. Lol
Landing could have been better, but overall pretty impressive.
Impressive fore sure. Except for the him dying part. Takes too much away from the celebration of it all.
Be interesting to see autopsy report. Internal injuries? Broken neck?
Um I'm no expert but I think he broke ALL of his bones. That impact was beyond brutal
I’d think he died from a broken neck and or a severed/ruptured aorta
Rip mate takes big balls to do that stuff all for people's enjoyment
Bronwen Whiteway.
He did something like that primarily for his own recognition. People's enjoyment comes second.
More like a lack of brains...
First mistake was choosing the RM250 .
That's what I thought. A CR 250 would have made it.
@@tonypascale5317 Cr500 needed
Can agree boyz too short of a gearing on an rm should of went with a 500 of sort god bless old mate atleast he died while still on the throttle
@@tonypascale5317 why would a Honda 250 be any better than a Suzuki 250?
@@MrJokkoma get your “non bike guy” card here my dudes
I thought I was watching a Monty Python skit ....👌
Right before he hit the ramp you can see dirt or sand kick up, I wonder if that was enough to throw off his momentum. RIP
Before attempting something this crazy and this dangerous one really should check the numbers with a mathematician to come up with an exact speed required.
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Just watched that at 0.25x speed. A horrifying impact....to be fair though, even if he'd gone far enough he'd still have (atleast) life changing injuries judging by the angle of approach.
I did the same thing, too; it looks like he went into the scaffolding as opposed to landing on it. The fact that he and the bike just stopped all forward momentum in the blink of an eye is all you need to know.
My hero was Eddie Kidd..i was so lucky i had a cheeky older sister and friend who when we watched him in chester blagged there way out to the back were i met him (Eddie) very handsome he was i think i was around 10 so 1982 and in the back of this wagon was Eddie's chromed up motircross jumper which i was able to sit on,what a day....i was in tears watching that documentary about Eddie just so stupid with all the daring stunts he'd done...
That wasnt eddie kidd😂
@@ChrisRansom-z4b I know I can see it in the title🤔I was just waxing lyrical about an amazing stunt rider in Eddie... who was brave enough to say in a documentary months/years after his accident that he was drinking and using coke the night before his near death accident doing a stunt he used to do probably when he was a kid on his BMX it could of happened anyway... Eddie Kidd was the real deal if he'd been American he'd of been of the scale rich and known around the world...this bloke on TH-cam I'd never heard of before but I definitely knew it wasn't Eddie Kidd because of the title🧐🤪😜😏....👍
RIP brave man 🙏❤️
Back in these days even if the conditions were bad people expected the event to go ahead, he had zero fear, all he needed was a tail wind and he'd have made in ,died a happy guy riding his bike 🇬🇧🙏🤠💯
Missed it by that much.
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Sorry about that, chief.
the only thing anyone can ever do perfectly is to become nobody... hence the saying "Nobody's Perfect"
@@speeddemon9555 ...be as being as you can be. was he Aussie? why ask me??
Pobody's nerfect......
People do things perfectly everyday....
@@inlangford I suppose anything's possible
On the approach, like 80 yards before he launched off the ramp, he slowly turned right to begin the straightaway approach to the takeoff ramp. In the air, his bike was not straight but rather canted slightly to the left. Thus, I wonder if, as he was climbing the takeoff ramp, he was accelerating while still turning sligntly left because he was still overcorrecting due to the non-straight approach. If so, this slight left cant or turn in the air perhaps cost him 4 feet on the landing due to air resistance while he was in the air.
Nicely made up story you did there.
At least he went out in the most badass way possible. May he rest in peace.
Really?? Some other guy ended up with his wife and raised his kids. No glory in that.
It would have taken a bit more courage to live a longer life.
He was a Darwin Award winner even before the Darwin Awards were invented.
As my mate would say "looked do-able"
Is the bike OK?
WTF? No face shield,no goggles,no sun glasses no eye protection at all?????
yah, that would have helped..........
He didn't have his condom on properly either from the report I read.
same concept, ,if your standing on railroad tracks with a train coming at you doing 80 , putting on glasses or face shield will help your chances of surviving
@@chadbailey189 Yeah,being able to see and have good perception is no big deal at 80MPH while jumping a bike. It could save your ass!
Woah! Rare to see this type of footage. Imagine what RWS was thinking when he realized...
Great camera work. Always show the ground after a disaster.
I was 12yrs old and was indiana, i never heard of this until today.