Anyone See This Jump???

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Does anyone know who, where, when and why?
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TX24 6/27/2012 6:42pm
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No, but the Fox Airs are cool.
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TX24 6/27/2012 6:43pm
6/27/2012 6:43pm
Oh, and the crashed bike is not in the jump or of the pair.
STL-MX-OLD-SCL 6/27/2012 7:04pm
6/27/2012 7:04pm
I'll give a clue,,,This happened inside the St. Louis Checkerdome.
STL-MX-OLD-SCL 6/27/2012 7:12pm
6/27/2012 7:12pm
Nope,,,good try,,,Gary Wells

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Seven7 6/27/2012 7:13pm
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Gary Wells? Same dude who almost killed himself jumping over the fountains at Ceasars Palace. Funny that Metzger friggin' back flipped over them a few years back.
STL-MX-OLD-SCL 6/27/2012 7:16pm
6/27/2012 7:16pm
Seven7 wrote:
Gary Wells? Same dude who almost killed himself jumping over the fountains at Ceasars Palace. Funny that Metzger friggin' back flipped over them a few years...
Gary Wells? Same dude who almost killed himself jumping over the fountains at Ceasars Palace. Funny that Metzger friggin' back flipped over them a few years back.
Yes,,,Metz was cool with those camo tires,,,but he jumped them 90 degrees to Kneivel and Wells, like 1/4 the distance,
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MXD 6/27/2012 7:31pm
6/27/2012 7:31pm
I knew that was Gary Wells by his signature blue suit. I had no idea where it was though.
Crashinskinoff 6/27/2012 7:35pm
6/27/2012 7:35pm
Gary Wells was a bad ass, he said someone moved his ramps. I always wondered how he missed it that bad, was there wind that day? it was on the cover of a magazine I remember seeing it on the rack. His run up to the ramp curved a bit.
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Mr. G 6/27/2012 7:38pm
6/27/2012 7:38pm
Somebody moved the ramp?
STL-MX-OLD-SCL 6/27/2012 7:40pm
6/27/2012 7:40pm
Crashinskinoff wrote:
Gary Wells was a bad ass, he said someone moved his ramps. I always wondered how he missed it that bad, was there wind that day...
Gary Wells was a bad ass, he said someone moved his ramps. I always wondered how he missed it that bad, was there wind that day? it was on the cover of a magazine I remember seeing it on the rack. His run up to the ramp curved a bit.
Yep,,,I'm pretty sure wind was a major factor in him missing the ramp. Yes and I agree Gary was amazing,,,at age 15 he beat Kneivels jump record, he could ride a wheely sitting on the bike backwards while going up the take off ramp that went way up the seats in the dome!!!
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newmann 6/27/2012 7:42pm
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I'm an hour late but the first thing that came to mind when i saw the suit was Gary Wells. The CR450's are 81 models though. Was he back to jumping stuff that fast? I thought he was pretty buggered up from Ceasars. The mangled up 1980 CR250 obviously was the Ceasars bike. I have a sweet super low hour rolling chassis from one of those I'm donating to my favorite evil machinist/ Vitalite so he can stuff a 83 CR480 engine in it.

Cool stuff, never seen those pics!
STL-MX-OLD-SCL 6/27/2012 7:46pm
6/27/2012 7:46pm Edited Date/Time 6/27/2012 8:00pm
BTW,,,he barely made this jump,,,he told everyone he was going to no hand the jump, he didn't, he must have gotten some bad wheel spind or something, but he only made the jump by 12-16 inches, I took these photos I had a front row seat and saw the jump, pretty scary, and this was his come back jump from vegas, it was way too close. St. Louis media gave it alot of press, I have the original press clippings.
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newmann 6/27/2012 7:52pm
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He always claimed someone from Kneivel's "crew" moved the ramp.
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Hank_Thrill 6/27/2012 7:52pm
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Mr. G wrote:
Somebody moved the ramp?
Notice the landing ramp is right in line with the exit tunnel...
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Outsider 6/27/2012 8:46pm
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Was Gary Wells the guy that jumped the oncoming train?
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Moto619 6/27/2012 10:19pm
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Outsider wrote:
Was Gary Wells the guy that jumped the oncoming train?
I think that was Johnny Airtime, I also think he jumped over the top of two helicopters whilst their blades were spinning..
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TG130 6/27/2012 11:25pm
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Outsider wrote:
Was Gary Wells the guy that jumped the oncoming train?
That was Roger Wells - aka Johnny Airtime. No relation to Gary.

I'm amazed that Gary actually did more jumps after Caesars. I had no idea that he did.

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dlhamblin 6/28/2012 4:52am
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STL-MX-OLD-SCL wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2012/06/27/ScannedImage021_810217.JPEG[/img] [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2012/06/27/ScannedImage022_581769.JPEG[/img] [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2012/06/27/ScannedImage023_245666.JPEG[/img] [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2012/06/27/ScannedImage024_894960.JPEG[/img] Does anyone know who, where, when and why?








Does anyone know who, where, when and why?
Its Gary Wells, not sure that particular jump though. He ended his career (and almost life) trying the Cesars Palace fountain jump on TV (I can't recall the shows names but it was people trying a lot of dumb stunts).
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BuDz34 6/28/2012 5:04am
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damn Hamblin you just straight up neglected to read the whole thread huh.. Yeah it shows!
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jtiger12 6/28/2012 5:06am
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can't believe that dude lived through that.
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TerryK 6/28/2012 5:16am
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The whole "someone moved my ramps" was bull imo. You can see the rear end kick out as he left the ramp. I'm guessing he spun the real wheel on the ramp because he had to be on the throttle so hard on the run up.
donhutch1800 8/16/2012 3:34pm
8/16/2012 3:34pm
The show that filmed the jump at ceasers was called{THATS INCREDIBILE}
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drkelly 8/17/2012 10:48am
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Landing ramp is like 8 ft wide too. WTF? I would want a WIDE ass landing ramp for just that reason. Hay bails are super cheap too. Pretty stupid not to line those walls with some padding of some kind.
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Titan1 8/17/2012 10:55am
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Seven7 wrote:
Gary Wells? Same dude who almost killed himself jumping over the fountains at Ceasars Palace. Funny that Metzger friggin' back flipped over them a few years...
Gary Wells? Same dude who almost killed himself jumping over the fountains at Ceasars Palace. Funny that Metzger friggin' back flipped over them a few years back.
STL-MX-OLD-SCL wrote:
Yes,,,Metz was cool with those camo tires,,,but he jumped them 90 degrees to Kneivel and Wells, like 1/4 the distance,
Metz jumped 112 feet...are you saying Kneivel and Wells jumped over 400 feet?
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TX24 8/17/2012 10:59am
8/17/2012 10:59am
I saw a Wells jump last week on TV, I believe it was like 110.
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etccb 8/17/2012 11:00am
8/17/2012 11:00am Edited Date/Time 8/17/2012 11:05am
The take off, landing, approach are all greatly improved today including the elevation of them. Night and day you can't compare let alone the bikes. Those guys were nuts.
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Daystar99 8/17/2012 12:33pm
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I raced Gary Wells when we were both about 12 (1968) in Phoenix. He was a pretty fast TT racer but had never raced motocross before. They didn't have age classes back then, just Jr. (Novice) and Sr. (Expert), and we were in 125 Jr. It was before anyone had really figured out starting procedures so we would all put our clutch hands on our helmets and hold our heads right next to the clutch. Anyway, he went 1-1 - just pretty much checked out - and I went 3-2. I have a picture of the second moto start somewhere with Gary wearing blue TT leathers racing a white tank AT-1 Yamaha and me on my Penton and Torsten Hallman leathers.

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