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On a side note it was never claimed for him to be the first ever to flip a bike. He was claimed to be the first ever to backflip and land it in a event. And that's exactly what he did. May not have been the best landing but it was epic.
He was a local legend to all of us. He had one of those aluminum silver tank TT Yamaha‘s with a orange stripe across the top. And you see him literally wheeling down the highway going 65 miles an hour like nobody’s business.
When they first started jumping into that pond and doing the flip into the water. He was using the land of a kid used to work at the local Suzuki shop. If I remember correctly? It was pretty hush-hush. But you could see the ramp from the road on the old Eastside highway between Hamilton and Corvallis.
There was also this really funky hill just west of Hamilton or if you got enough speed you could jump your car or you could jump your pick up or whatever. We used to go up there with our girlfriends thought we were pretty cool catching a little air in our old trucks. I never got to see him do it but somebody told me that he jumped off that thing and he literally went from the top to the bottom which had to of been at the time probably 100 yards I would guess? Full on pavement!
To this day. I still remember seeing video of him doing a backflip into water. And I always think he was the first guy that I know of that ever did it. And anytime I see a TT Yamaha it’s the first thing that comes to my mind.
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