Maddison has already made global headlines with his bike-based stunts – including jumping the length of a football field, leaping across the Corinth Canal in Greece and off the Olympic ski jump in Salt Lake City. I was up on the Jet Ski right in front of where the lip was hitting the water, parallel to the reef-it was just so epic.
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Courageous Robbie Maddison spent two years adapting his dirt bike with a pair of skis and a tyre to ride the waves at Teahupoo in Tahiti on the Pacific Ocean.
And, wow, was this endeavor well received.
The YouTube upload of the video has been viewed more than five and a half million times in 24 hours.
An Australian stuntman has spoken of the moment he thought he might die while riding a huge wave on a motorbike at one of the world’s most powerful surfing breaks.
In an interview with Surfer Magazine, Robbie narrated how he grew up surfing – he started when he was 8, which inspired the idea of using his motorbike along the waves.
As Madison told Surfer Mag, the video is impressive but can’t come close to conveying the intensity of the experience.
Guess he showed them. “Over the past two years of working on this”, Maddisson explains, “I’ve dislocated my shoulder, broken my ankle, and had a few concussions”. Teaming up with DC Shoes, the stunt by Maddison was called “The Pipe Dream”.
But he admitted he was going to die as the largest wave broke behind him in this daring stunt.
Each failed take required four hours of maintenance on the bike to get it up and running again as it would sink each time the rider was thrown free. “I’ve done a lot of mad stuff in the past and a lot of people expect the next insane thing out of me”.
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What’s more, word has it that, before Robbie Maddison at long last settled on the right bike design for this stunt, several prototypes were created and put to the test.
