Showing posts with label snowmobile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snowmobile. Show all posts
Sunday, 27 May 2012
Saturday, 3 March 2012
Hagerty TV added video coverage to the vintage Snow Mobiles in their magazine that I posted a little while ago
The Snow Machine coverage is after the Jay Leno interview about Corvairs, and starts at minute 5:02
Found at http://www.hagerty.com/classic-car-articles-resources/Video/Hagerty-Classic-Car-TV?utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_content=HCCTV&utm_campaign=Episode21 because I signed up to get their newsletters, and video notifications (great stuff!)
Sunday, 1 January 2012
Red Bull brings in the new year, Levi LaVallee broke his own world record for distance jumped on a snowmobile by launching 412 feet
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http://www.redbullusa.com/cs/Satellite/en_US/Video/red-bull-new-year-no-limits-021243143084453
ESPN has a much better video at http://espn.go.com/action/story/_/id/7409827/new-year-no-limits
LaVallee jumped alongside Robbie Maddison, who unofficially broke the world record for distance jumped on a motorcycle during practice for Saturday night's event. Maddison said he jumped 392 feet during practice but during the live event, he came up just short of the 391-foot record, landing at 378 feet, 9 inches.
After working out the details of their individual approaches, the pair sailed through the air, in synchronistic fashion, jumping over 300 feet of water from the North to the South at the Embarcadero Marina Park. Robbie Maddison was leading at about 110 mph with Levi LaVallee gaining, as if in the draft, at maybe 120 mph. http://www.ultimatemotorcycling.com/2012-red-bull-jump-lavallee-maddison
And that is about it for news coverage of this spectacle event. Not like its a heavy news day around the world, but basically no one but ESPN and Ultimate Motorcycling were there and reporting about it today
Maddison kick-started the Red Bull series in 2007 by jumping his motorcycle 322 feet in Las Vegas. The following year, he jumped onto and then off the 96-foot high scale version of the Arc de Triomphe at Paris Las Vegas.
Maddison has jumped the 279-foot wide Corinth Canal in Greece, at a height of more than 300 feet above the water, and did a no-handed back flip over the open span on London’s Tower Bridge.
Tere found a great video compilation of the past new years eve Red Bull jumps!
Friday, 30 December 2011
What would New Years Eve be without Levi Lavalee jumping? This time, it will be in San DIego
EVENT INFORMATION
Red Bull: New Year. No Limits. will air live from San Diego, Calif., on Saturday, December 31 at approximately 11 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. PT on ESPN, ESPNHD and ESPN3, immediately following the Chick-Fil-A Bowl.
LaVallee, a seven-time Winter X Games Medalist and champion snowcross racer, will jump his snowmobile alongside Robbie Maddison, who will pilot his motorcycle, as both athletes simultaneously jump over 300 feet of water from the North park to the South park at the Embarcadero Marina Park in the downtown area of San Diego Bay. LaVallee will attempt to break his own record of 361 feet and Maddison will be aiming to eclipse the current record of 391 feet.
From last years jumps:
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Red Bull: New Year. No Limits. will air live from San Diego, Calif., on Saturday, December 31 at approximately 11 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. PT on ESPN, ESPNHD and ESPN3, immediately following the Chick-Fil-A Bowl.
LaVallee, a seven-time Winter X Games Medalist and champion snowcross racer, will jump his snowmobile alongside Robbie Maddison, who will pilot his motorcycle, as both athletes simultaneously jump over 300 feet of water from the North park to the South park at the Embarcadero Marina Park in the downtown area of San Diego Bay. LaVallee will attempt to break his own record of 361 feet and Maddison will be aiming to eclipse the current record of 391 feet.
From last years jumps:
Thursday, 25 August 2011
Before atv's became commonplace in the 1990's, some people converted their snowmobiles
This last one was a factory conversion kit "Wunder Wheels"
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Some cool, some unusual, a couple Hollywood stars even... all with motorcycles, bicycles, brass era cars too. Even a photo of Bonneville
Those wonderful 3 Stooges, the bike is a Crocker Scoutabout 1941
This is something I've never seen
Notice the old spelling of "Authorised" and the Zephyr V12
Halfway from the original sidecars that were designed to be riden in, to the flat pads that are used for racing
The above pennyfarthing has that unusual design of the Star Safety http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/08/racer-a-zimmerman-and-his-star-safety.html , and is in clear contrast to the below common design
1930 Bohmerland 600
someone really wants that motorcycle in the country
The first big dog motorcycle?
1910, the first chopper? Probably
Canoe sidecar
A dual rear mount sidecar
Charles Lindbergh on an Excelsior
English tricar
How long do you suppose he had those stupid handlebars before someone laughed at him?
Fire truck... not the first I've posted, but the better of the two
Betty
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