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Originally posted by RadarStill impressive though
Yes no mean feat, Robbie makes it look so easy, sign of a true professional.
Well he’s crashed and the bike has been written off by the insurers, I bet thats not the end though, once a t*sser always a t*sser. Heres the report from this weeks rag………..
A motorcyclist who claimed to spend his spare time filming other riders and handing footage to police has written off his bike in a crash.
Geoff Smith boasted last year of riding at the speed limit and sending police footage recorded on his helmet camera of other motorcyclists overtaking.
“I record all the idiots that, while I’m doing the normal correct speed, are flying past at 80 or 90mph,” he said at the time.
Despite having no powers to stop he even admitted lecturing riders at the roadside on his Honda Pan European, which then resembled a police motorcycle thanks to livery and extra lights added by himself.
But riders are safe from Smith’s prying after he did this to his bike in a collision with a car. Smith, 63, from Southampton, suffered cuts and bruises while the ex-police Pan, which has done over 200,000 miles, has been written off by insurers.
Smith told MCN: “I was knocked off by a taxi driver. I’ve done my shoulder and back. I’m still getting better. My shoulder is bruised and badly swollen.”
Smith enraged MCN readers when we revealed his own record was far from unblemished, with prior convictions including driving without a licence and speeding.
Most bizarrely, it emerged he’d been jailed for running a crooked ambulance charity.
Solent Ambulance Service was supposed to deliver human organs for transplants but Smith had pocketed donations while living out a fantasy of driving with flashing lights and a siren.
His latest venture appears to be a courier firm. The phone number blanked out in our picture is his own.
Smith is understood to be planning to buy the bike back from the insurers and repair it.
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Originally posted by imperialdataWhat’s this barn owl stuff then?
Ah yes just spotted it………..12 seconds into benji 2nd pass.
Nowhere as spectacular as this one of Robbie’s that Pete247 posted in January ’09 :-
For those who missed it the first time around……….
https://www.bikemeet.net/forums/topic/what-a-total-nutcase-d-d-d/
This is what The Times had to say:-
The Tower of London’s iconic lifting road bridge was open for passing ships this morning but that did not stop an Australian motorcyclist crossing the Thames in style.
Robbie Maddison, a stunt rider, raced up one side of the raised bridge and flew through the air 100ft above the water. He performed a no-handed backflip before landing safely on the south side of the bridge.
The 27-year-old became the first person to leap the 25ft gap between spans at 2.55am this morning. “The whole experience was awesome,” he said.
“We had a matter of minutes on the bridge and had to time everything to the second – there were so many factors to get right, but we pulled it off. “It was an incredible feeling to fly between the two towers and over the Thames.”
Maddison said he had been planning a stunt in London since his last feat – leaping off a ramp on to a life-size replica of the Arc de Triomphe in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve last year.
“People say I’m crazy, but I just want to push the boundaries of my sport and my body to the limit and I love taking on these huge challenges,” he said.
Maddison, who also holds the record for the world’s longest ever motorbike jump of 350.7ft (106.9m), will perform at Battersea Power Station on August 22 as part of the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour 2009.
Their Video taken from Sky had more coverage……..
https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6700404.ece
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Originally posted by ses310I might be tempted… Will let you know in the next couple of days
OK ses, Tis a pity that we cant get THE group on the road together on this occasion.
I’ve a few clips but aint got the courage to get them on youtube just incase I get a knock on the front door from the cyber police. I reckon the 600 and your 1st were 59.98 mph and your 2nd (faster) was 59.99 mph, would I be ABOUT right???
Just found out there was a Honda song from the mid 60’s featuring the C50.
This ones by The Hondells.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqKi_9p1zks
Even The Beach Boys did the same number.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wCubT4Z9LA&feature=fvw
Even Irish Comedy Singer Richie Kavanaghs done a number named The Little Honda 50.
A further article is in this weeks Motor Cycle News. Video Link here from MCN site.
https://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1119137831?bctid=28718232001
Hello Keith, welcome to The Bike Forum, out of interest do you have a biking background? If so what do you have got / what have you owned?
