This is worth another look

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Edited Date/Time 1/24/2012 10:49am
I posted this a couple years ago, its my uncle jumping over 300 ft back in the 70's. Anyways, I thought it was worth another post.

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bvm111 1/11/2012 9:15pm
1/11/2012 9:15pm
you know what.... that was friggun sweeeet!!!!
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TripleFive 1/11/2012 9:22pm
1/11/2012 9:22pm
Your uncle Bob really cracks me up! That's gold right there.
MeyerLarry 1/11/2012 9:23pm
1/11/2012 9:23pm
Almost sounds like sound effects when he lands.

That almost looks doable.

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fullfloater 1/11/2012 9:36pm
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That was great! Barely bottomed the suspension when he landed. Thanks for the post.
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urbanlift707 1/11/2012 9:46pm
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fullfloater wrote:
That was great! Barely bottomed the suspension when he landed. Thanks for the post.
Yea and did you notice him start to take flight before he even left the ramp? I've wondered if this video is what inspired Pastrana and the nitro circus to try it on their show, though they failed miserably.
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MX690 1/11/2012 9:51pm
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That was cool, Hope Maddo sees this, he could jump 4 miles.
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jeffro503 1/11/2012 9:57pm
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Dude.....that is just simply awesome!! A great idea actually.....not for me , but for someone with a big set of brass ones. My luck the kite would fold right on take off.

Urbanlift : is your uncle still alive? If he is.....buy him a beer for me would ya?
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Cigaro 1/11/2012 10:06pm
1/11/2012 10:06pm
That is cool. What was this video from?
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urbanlift707 1/11/2012 10:11pm
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I wish he was, but no he has passed, and sadly I never got the chance to meet him. He died filming a TV ad in Hawaii, the chopper filming him got to close and his prop wash blew him into the cliffs.

This jump isn't even that big though, he flew his kite bike off of saddleback and flew prob ten miles, I give my dad shit all the time for not getting video of that.
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newmann 1/12/2012 6:30am
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Gotta love the fact that he did it on a CR250M.....2 stroke and 7/4 inches of travel.
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Hank_Thrill 1/12/2012 6:39am
1/12/2012 6:39am
Astonishingly remarkable!

I love the open face.

You shouldn't post this year though.

Once this gets back to Red Bull they might try to one up him.
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urbanlift707 1/12/2012 10:24am
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Hank_Thrill wrote:
Astonishingly remarkable! I love the open face. You shouldn't post this year though. Once this gets back to Red Bull they might try to one up...
Astonishingly remarkable!

I love the open face.

You shouldn't post this year though.

Once this gets back to Red Bull they might try to one up him.
I hope they try it, that would be bad ass if someone could pull it off again, especially with how far hang gliders have come since then.

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Klutch 1/12/2012 12:14pm
1/12/2012 12:14pm
nitro circus tried something similar, they just forgot to use a ramp. cool video
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mwssquad827 4/24/2019 7:41am
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The best part is the end where he has people dangling from the 2 people that are sitting on the kite!(no one is strapped in) ??? that’s awesome thanks for sharing!!
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TT Special 4/24/2019 7:49am
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pitbike502 wrote:
so simple, yet awesome
Simple until it noses up or down or a gust of wind hits it
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Dude!!! I saw your Uncle doing this personally as a youngster on one of our twice a month riding trips to El Mirage.

It had to be him. I stopped and watched forever. None of my friends believed me and when l took one with a month or so later we saw his ramp but he wasn't there. We were so bummed.

Sorry to hear he passed. This is a memory l'll carry to the grave so your Uncle is in some ways both on video and in memories still with us.
Moto Obsessed 4/24/2019 9:07pm
4/24/2019 9:07pm
Is anybody else still trying to process what they just saw here?? Where has this video been my entire life?? Raddest moto edit I've seen all year!
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sumdood 4/24/2019 10:12pm
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That rig still around somewhere ?
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jemcee 4/24/2019 10:46pm
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That rules haha I wanna have a go

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