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fingers crossed he makes it with out to many broken bits.
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Before he tries to become the first person to successfully clear the Caesars Palace fountain, the 34-year-old Pastrana will try to exceed two other famous jumps by Knievel. He'll try to surpass Knievel's jump over 50 crushed cars, done at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1973, and then beat by two the stuntman's jump over 14 Greyhound buses, accomplished in 1975 at Ohio's Kings Island amusement park.
The first two jumps will be behind Planet Hollywood, Paris Las Vegas and Bally's Las Vegas. Pastrana will then get a police escort to Caesars Palace.
Pastrana will attempt the jumps on an Indian Scout FTR750, a modern-day evolution of the flat track bikes of the past. He said it's double the weight of the dirt bikes he normally uses in jumps, with three times the power and about one-third of the suspension travel
Was he not one half of CHiPs......
If the bike's capable, there's probably no better rider on earth.
He won’t be able to resist attempting to throw in a flip and it’ll all go wrong from there. All joking aside I hope he succeeds at all three.
Make all 3, pretty impressive considering the bike he used.
Not to take anything away from him but he completes much tougher stuff than that on a regular basis. Nice homage to evel though, the original nutjob stuntman.