£ Sunday 8th of July saw Travis
Pastrana slip into some retro leather
and onto an Indian Scout FTR750 (a
flat-track racing bike pushing twice
the weight of the bikes he’s used to
jumping) for three huge stunts.
The vehicle-jumping section of the
show involved Travis clearing 52
crushed cars and then 16 Greyhound
buses - with a jump over the Caesars
Palace fountain in the evening.
#throwback:
Travis Pastrana’s
Evel Knievel tribute
We normally use this section to honour our favourite
historical moments of awesomeness, but this issue we’re
featuring Travis Pastrana paying tribute to the legend that
was Evel Knievel - where he recreated Knievel’s historic Las
Vegas car, bus and fountain jumps.
£ Although the bus jump was the longest at
about 60 metres, the 45-metre fountain jump
required much more elevation.
It also needed a different approach to the
attempt Knievel failed in 1967. Development
over the decades meant Pastrana had to
make the jump in the opposite direction,
with a greatly shortened approach.
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