The first EVER motorcycle backflip that no one seems to know about!

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Edited Date/Time 11/18/2021 10:45pm
I was bored in these rainy days so i decided to make a vid about the first ever motorcycle backflip.
When im looking at dirt bike stuff on youtube / Facebook and Instagram, it seems that everyone thinks its Carey Hart that did the first backflip, when people discuss backflips. They are wrong.
Carey is the first one on a big bike and in a competition.

So, have you guys heard about these 90s backflip dudes ?
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[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCN9HZ9IaAw]




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They were both on 80s though,right?
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Wow I had no idea, very cool video!!
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zookrider62! wrote:
They were both on 80s though,right?
Yep both Yanez and Kohl was on 80cc 2 strokes

Carey hart was the first on a big 250cc bike (Honda CR250) Smile
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vansnxtweek489 10/24/2021 10:46am
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I will always feel Carey Hart was the first even if the landing wasn't perfect. He takes it. I also remember some dude from Canada on the cover of TWMX that claimed the "first landed one."
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Boomslang 10/24/2021 11:21am
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Sometime is the 1970's

Shit bike...hardly any suspension but big balls....he landed it successfully
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Shit bike...Sometime is the 1970's...
..hardly any suspension but big balls. The jumps was successful .


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Boomslang wrote:
Shit bike...Sometime is the 1970's... ..hardly any suspension but big balls. The jumps was successful . [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2021/10/24/515862/s1200_9bb4a799b4c507c63d822b00772aa60f_leap_of_faith_hair_raising.jpg[/img]
Shit bike...Sometime is the 1970's...
..hardly any suspension but big balls. The jumps was successful .


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vansnxtweek489 wrote:
I will always feel Carey Hart was the first even if the landing wasn't perfect. He takes it. I also remember some dude from Canada on...
I will always feel Carey Hart was the first even if the landing wasn't perfect. He takes it. I also remember some dude from Canada on the cover of TWMX that claimed the "first landed one."
If you had watched the video in my post you would know who the "dude" from Canda was. Thats Caleb Wyatt Smile

And how can you feel Carey was the first one to do a backflip when theres two dudes in the early 90s who landed it perfectly? I dont get that.
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Eddie kidd is right. Balls of steel! Those men jumped huge no matter how poor bikes they had, same with Evel Knievel.
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vansnxtweek489 wrote:
I will always feel Carey Hart was the first even if the landing wasn't perfect. He takes it. I also remember some dude from Canada on...
I will always feel Carey Hart was the first even if the landing wasn't perfect. He takes it. I also remember some dude from Canada on the cover of TWMX that claimed the "first landed one."
jan88 wrote:
If you had watched the video in my post you would know who the "dude" from Canda was. Thats Caleb Wyatt :) And how can you...
If you had watched the video in my post you would know who the "dude" from Canda was. Thats Caleb Wyatt Smile

And how can you feel Carey was the first one to do a backflip when theres two dudes in the early 90s who landed it perfectly? I dont get that.
Cos they’re on little fun bikes?
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vansnxtweek489 wrote:
I will always feel Carey Hart was the first even if the landing wasn't perfect. He takes it. I also remember some dude from Canada on...
I will always feel Carey Hart was the first even if the landing wasn't perfect. He takes it. I also remember some dude from Canada on the cover of TWMX that claimed the "first landed one."
jan88 wrote:
If you had watched the video in my post you would know who the "dude" from Canda was. Thats Caleb Wyatt :) And how can you...
If you had watched the video in my post you would know who the "dude" from Canda was. Thats Caleb Wyatt Smile

And how can you feel Carey was the first one to do a backflip when theres two dudes in the early 90s who landed it perfectly? I dont get that.
He’s Australian though, right
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vansnxtweek489 wrote:
I will always feel Carey Hart was the first even if the landing wasn't perfect. He takes it. I also remember some dude from Canada on...
I will always feel Carey Hart was the first even if the landing wasn't perfect. He takes it. I also remember some dude from Canada on the cover of TWMX that claimed the "first landed one."
jan88 wrote:
If you had watched the video in my post you would know who the "dude" from Canda was. Thats Caleb Wyatt :) And how can you...
If you had watched the video in my post you would know who the "dude" from Canda was. Thats Caleb Wyatt Smile

And how can you feel Carey was the first one to do a backflip when theres two dudes in the early 90s who landed it perfectly? I dont get that.
No need to flip out
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vansnxtweek489 wrote:
I will always feel Carey Hart was the first even if the landing wasn't perfect. He takes it. I also remember some dude from Canada on...
I will always feel Carey Hart was the first even if the landing wasn't perfect. He takes it. I also remember some dude from Canada on the cover of TWMX that claimed the "first landed one."
jan88 wrote:
If you had watched the video in my post you would know who the "dude" from Canda was. Thats Caleb Wyatt :) And how can you...
If you had watched the video in my post you would know who the "dude" from Canda was. Thats Caleb Wyatt Smile

And how can you feel Carey was the first one to do a backflip when theres two dudes in the early 90s who landed it perfectly? I dont get that.
vansnxtweek489 wrote:
No need to flip out
im not flipping out Grinning

Another crazy dude that i first got to know about now is "Recless Rex". Anyone heard of him before?
Check out this insane backflip that he did in 1976. Landed in water but nontheless, thats insaneBlink
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limepandanz 10/24/2021 4:42pm
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Not to take anything away from those dudes but they are on much smaller bikes so of course it is a lot easier. Still pretty wicked!

What I want to know is whether Carey Hart landed one in practice before the gravity games. Obviously he didn't land that one cleanly, but for him to be prepared to try it he must have had success or been really close in practice. Maybe he truly was the first to flip a big bike?
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limepandanz wrote:
Not to take anything away from those dudes but they are on much smaller bikes so of course it is a lot easier. Still pretty wicked...
Not to take anything away from those dudes but they are on much smaller bikes so of course it is a lot easier. Still pretty wicked!

What I want to know is whether Carey Hart landed one in practice before the gravity games. Obviously he didn't land that one cleanly, but for him to be prepared to try it he must have had success or been really close in practice. Maybe he truly was the first to flip a big bike?
If I remember correctly, Hart was thinking about flipping it all day and decided to just go for it.
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Am I the only one that thinks Carey didn't land it?
I remember watching it on tv at the time and was blown away! But he clearly crashed. Didn't ride away, didn't have control of the bike, hand and feet on the dirt, ended on the ground. Usually when someone hits the ground after a jump and ends on the ground it's considered a crash except for this very specific moment everyone considers this the opposite.
First one to attempt it in competition. Absolutely!
Unpopular opinion but I guess this is just semantics I'm talking about
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Metz’s two flips in a row will always be the first to make me jump out of my seat yelling. Listening to him tell the story on WTS was all time. Hart was a G, but Metz is THE G.
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hubbardmx50 10/24/2021 6:36pm
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Wow, cool video man. Smaller bike or not those two flips were clean. Props to those dudes. I wonder why nobody talked about them. I guess things were different before X Games and the internet.
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Carey's the first. Those dudes in your videos are grown ass men on 80's. Had Carey Hart showed up to the Gravity Games on a CR80 and did a backflip ten feet off the ground, people would have barely given a shit.

It wasn't even thought to be possible (at the time) to get a full sized dirt bike to do a complete rotation without being 100ft in the air. Hart fucking sent it for the first time at a high profile competition in front of a shit ton of people. There's no way in hell he thought he was going to land it and the fact he hit that step up so hard anyways and fully committed is some legendary shit. Dude had to be ready to die that day. The fact that he "crashed" didn't mean anything, he showed that it was possible.

I remember Travis tried it not long after in a competition on a similar setup and it was a very ginger attempt (was nowhere near as high in the air as Carey was plus he bailed off the bike pretty quick). Imagine having done something on a dirtbike that freaked TP out.....

The backflip is always going to have Hart's name attached to it and rightfully so. It's like a wild horse that Hart brought to the stables and Metzger tamed it.
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Fourth_Floor wrote:
Carey's the first. Those dudes in your videos are grown ass men on 80's. Had Carey Hart showed up to the Gravity Games on a CR80...
Carey's the first. Those dudes in your videos are grown ass men on 80's. Had Carey Hart showed up to the Gravity Games on a CR80 and did a backflip ten feet off the ground, people would have barely given a shit.

It wasn't even thought to be possible (at the time) to get a full sized dirt bike to do a complete rotation without being 100ft in the air. Hart fucking sent it for the first time at a high profile competition in front of a shit ton of people. There's no way in hell he thought he was going to land it and the fact he hit that step up so hard anyways and fully committed is some legendary shit. Dude had to be ready to die that day. The fact that he "crashed" didn't mean anything, he showed that it was possible.

I remember Travis tried it not long after in a competition on a similar setup and it was a very ginger attempt (was nowhere near as high in the air as Carey was plus he bailed off the bike pretty quick). Imagine having done something on a dirtbike that freaked TP out.....

The backflip is always going to have Hart's name attached to it and rightfully so. It's like a wild horse that Hart brought to the stables and Metzger tamed it.
It was a cool moment and Hart certainly brought his big balls that day, but he wasn’t the first (by many years, as the vid points out) to try a flip, not to mention the fact that he crashed. No clue why the OP would get down votes for pointing this out.
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Dirtydeeds 10/24/2021 7:57pm
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Can’t forget super joe reed. Im sure he back flipped on accident in the 80’s all the way to flat. Dudes the king of huge jumps to flat I’ll givem that.

https://youtu.be/I8Boqjlq3T8

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jan88 wrote:
If you had watched the video in my post you would know who the "dude" from Canda was. Thats Caleb Wyatt :) And how can you...
If you had watched the video in my post you would know who the "dude" from Canda was. Thats Caleb Wyatt Smile

And how can you feel Carey was the first one to do a backflip when theres two dudes in the early 90s who landed it perfectly? I dont get that.
vansnxtweek489 wrote:
No need to flip out
jan88 wrote:
im not flipping out :lol: Another crazy dude that i first got to know about now is "Recless Rex". Anyone heard of him before? Check out...
im not flipping out Grinning

Another crazy dude that i first got to know about now is "Recless Rex". Anyone heard of him before?
Check out this insane backflip that he did in 1976. Landed in water but nontheless, thats insaneBlink
Lol, it was just a joke referring to the topic at hand.

From a wannabe youtuber to a more successful one, good video man.
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Watch the whiskey throttle show with Carey Hart - should sum things up straight from the man himself.
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Metz’s two flips in a row will always be the first to make me jump out of my seat yelling. Listening to him tell the story...
Metz’s two flips in a row will always be the first to make me jump out of my seat yelling. Listening to him tell the story on WTS was all time. Hart was a G, but Metz is THE G.
Word. Two in a row 80 footers man that was a thing of beauty. I was a 10 year old kid with my jaw on the floor watching that
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-MAVERICK- wrote:
If I remember correctly, Hart was thinking about flipping it all day and decided to just go for it.
What was also weird was the location. Most people might think somewhere in Socal or Vegas, but it was in Providence RI.
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Am I the only one that thinks Carey didn't land it? I remember watching it on tv at the time and was blown away! But he...
Am I the only one that thinks Carey didn't land it?
I remember watching it on tv at the time and was blown away! But he clearly crashed. Didn't ride away, didn't have control of the bike, hand and feet on the dirt, ended on the ground. Usually when someone hits the ground after a jump and ends on the ground it's considered a crash except for this very specific moment everyone considers this the opposite.
First one to attempt it in competition. Absolutely!
Unpopular opinion but I guess this is just semantics I'm talking about
Carey is the first person to show that a backflip was possible on a full size bike but I'm like you I can't give credit with a crash.

To be a successful jump you have to ride away.
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I don’t agree that an 80cc dirt bikes doesn’t qualify for a first ever backflip because the bike is “small” and the jump is not as big as Carey Hart`s flip.
Does the first backflip only qualify for 125cc bikes and up then?

Flipping an 80cc dirt bike might be easier but it was harder to accomplish in 1991 when almost nobody flipped any bikes compared to 2000 when backflipping BMX bikes and other things was more “normal”.
That’s my opinion.
BUT The backflip is always going to have Hart's name attached to it, I totally agree. He was the man that showed it was possible to flip a big bike. He will always be a badass.
At least now we know that people could flip dirt bikes all the way back to 1976, landing in water or not Smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNsnO7hmL_Y
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limepandanz wrote:
Not to take anything away from those dudes but they are on much smaller bikes so of course it is a lot easier. Still pretty wicked...
Not to take anything away from those dudes but they are on much smaller bikes so of course it is a lot easier. Still pretty wicked!

What I want to know is whether Carey Hart landed one in practice before the gravity games. Obviously he didn't land that one cleanly, but for him to be prepared to try it he must have had success or been really close in practice. Maybe he truly was the first to flip a big bike?
He didnt have a foam pit in 2000 (gravity games)
in 2002 he had a foam pit to practice in. Cinqmars, Jeremy Stenberg and Faisst did their first backflips in that pit Evil
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jan88 wrote:
I don’t agree that an 80cc dirt bikes doesn’t qualify for a first ever backflip because the bike is “small” and the jump is not as...


I don’t agree that an 80cc dirt bikes doesn’t qualify for a first ever backflip because the bike is “small” and the jump is not as big as Carey Hart`s flip.
Does the first backflip only qualify for 125cc bikes and up then?

Flipping an 80cc dirt bike might be easier but it was harder to accomplish in 1991 when almost nobody flipped any bikes compared to 2000 when backflipping BMX bikes and other things was more “normal”.
That’s my opinion.
BUT The backflip is always going to have Hart's name attached to it, I totally agree. He was the man that showed it was possible to flip a big bike. He will always be a badass.
At least now we know that people could flip dirt bikes all the way back to 1976, landing in water or not Smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNsnO7hmL_Y
There’s a reason why Pastrana has his students gradually learn on a bicycle, then a mini-bike as they progress to a normal bike.
And it’s not until they land the big bike flip that they feel they’ve “done it”
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The level of skill and commitment between an 80 in your backyard with unlimited attempts and a CR250 broadcast live in front of 10’s of millions of people on your very first attempt? Carey might lose on a technicality to a few internet nerds, but he earned what came from that day. The world spoke, and he’s the chosen one. It’s been 20 years, let it go fella.
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