Stewart riding today ....

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010 10:07am PDT

James Stewart takes flight at Red Bull Flugtag Miami

By: Chris Worden

After weeks of carefully sculpting, polishing, and tweaking his YZ450F to make it sea- and air-worthy, James Stewart finally tried his hand at the Red Bull Flugtag event on Saturday in Miami, Florida in front of more than 85,000 spectators.



James' confidence was soaring pretty high right before his flight: "Since I'm a Red Bull rider and can't actually be judged in the event, I figure I might as well just go ahead and break the distance record so that everyone remembers me," James said with a grin.

Unfortunately for James, however, flying a stationary motorcycle off of a 25-foot-high platform (with no motor) wasn't quite as easy as he thought it might be; though James did put in a solid attempt, his distance was quite a bit shy of the winning team's flight/descent of 54 feet. Still, it was all in the name of fun for the 2009 Supercross champ, and he definitely accomplished that goal.

"Red Bull Flugtag in Miami was a blast! It took me out of being so serious from what I normally do, which is racing," said Stewart. "Red Bull does so many cool things and being one of their athletes, the opportunities are just unlimited. I want to go for the record again!"






DC's got nothing on that dropoff !

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race 7/13/2010 4:18pm
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Looks like he's still crashing ....





... but so was everyone else.

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Well hope your happy you got me i thought he was maybe on a mx bike! LOL
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mxb2 wrote:
Well hope your happy you got me i thought he was maybe on a mx bike! LOL
He was on a mx bike.

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terrible...

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I see two obvious problems.

1. He should have seat-bounced it.

2. He should have gone with the two-stroke.

Of course the friggin' four-stroke just fell out of the sky like the tank it is. What was James thinking?



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Wow, he makes Pastrami look silly...Unsure
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Cygnus 7/13/2010 6:20pm
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I would like to see the check he got from Red Bull.
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looks like he used an old bike.
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viking24 7/13/2010 7:03pm
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85,000 spectators sat around to see that....must have been plenty of free alcohol to mix with the Red Bull.
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jasonv43 7/13/2010 8:16pm
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One word........

If you can think of one word that describes how terribly lame that was, you let me know. I keep coming up with two many words to describe it.
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jasonv43 wrote:
One word........ If you can think of one word that describes how terribly lame that was, you let me know. I keep coming up with two...
One word........

If you can think of one word that describes how terribly lame that was, you let me know. I keep coming up with two many words to describe it.
Actually you really can't go wrong with "lame".
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jasonv43 wrote:
One word........ If you can think of one word that describes how terribly lame that was, you let me know. I keep coming up with two...
One word........

If you can think of one word that describes how terribly lame that was, you let me know. I keep coming up with two many words to describe it.
The object is to be dumb and silly.

So you could go with "successful" also. Wink
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jasonv43 7/13/2010 9:01pm
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jasonv43 wrote:
One word........ If you can think of one word that describes how terribly lame that was, you let me know. I keep coming up with two...
One word........

If you can think of one word that describes how terribly lame that was, you let me know. I keep coming up with two many words to describe it.
gsxrcr28 wrote:
The object is to be dumb and silly.

So you could go with "successful" also. Wink
How about the announcer?

Was he successful?
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jasonv43 wrote:
One word........ If you can think of one word that describes how terribly lame that was, you let me know. I keep coming up with two...
One word........

If you can think of one word that describes how terribly lame that was, you let me know. I keep coming up with two many words to describe it.
gsxrcr28 wrote:
The object is to be dumb and silly.

So you could go with "successful" also. Wink
jasonv43 wrote:
How about the announcer?

Was he successful?
unfortunately... I think so.Blink

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