Top 10 Most Dangerous Motorcycle Stunts

In the real world, daredevils exist who would make fictional characters like Ghost Rider’s Johnny Blaze look like amateurs.  However, stunt-riding on a motorcycle is no monkey business, and some daredevils break their bones trying to break records and even lose their lives in the process. Please note that motorcycle daredevils usually dedicate their lives to performing such dangerous acts by obsessing over and practicing thousands of hours before the main event. Hence, you should never try these life-threatening stunts anywhere without professional guidance.

1. World’s Fastest Wheelie Record– Lifting the front wheel while riding a motorcycle at an average speed may not seem like a very challenging task for an experienced motorcycle rider. However, increase the speed to over 200mph, and suddenly everybody will be reluctant to do it except Gary Rothwell. The Liverpool daredevil was clocked at a speed of 209.8mph while riding a 540hp turbocharged Suzuki Hayabusa with the front wheel up in the air like a plane that is trying to take off. The stunt was performed on 19^th September 2015 at Elvington airstrip.
2. Back Flip Maneuver over Low-Flying Plane- Imagine performing a back flip motorcycle jump over a mid-sized aircraft flying at 200mph. If you jump too early or too slow, you risk splattering your brains all over the pavement or causing a mid-air collision. Too late, and you will miss the target by a mile or even more. That is why the motorcyclists, Nick de Witt, and the pilot, Glenn Dell, took 2 years to prepare for that particular stunt. Since the plane was flying not more than 6.5 feet above the ground, calculating the nearest millisecond and millimeter accuracy is critical.
3. Bull Chase (Knight and Day) – Tom Cruise is probably one of the few Hollywood actors who perform physically demanding action stunts without a double agent to back him up. Behind the scenes footage of the Knight and Day movie shows Tom Cruise flipping Cameron Diaz in mid air while speeding a motorcycle on a single wheel. Additionally, the scene featured a herd of angry bulls in pursuit, which took at least 4 days to master without any CGI effects. Apparently, Tom Cruise has been riding motorcycles since he was a kid, which made it easier for him to perform such stunts.
4. Highest Quarter Pipe Motorcycle Jump – Ronnie Renner must have taken Red Bull’s slogan literally, jumping 59 feet and 2 inches off a quarter pipe as if he had been gifted with wings. The event took place in Santa Monica, California, in front of at least 20,000 spectators. A year later, Ronnie Renner went on to extend his record in Chicago by jumping 63 feet and 5 inches in the air.
5. Jumping 14 Greyhound Buses- Most people would consider this list incomplete without mentioning the godfather of dangerous motorcycle stunts, Evel Knievel. The man successfully or attempted to jump a fleet of cars, hundreds of rattlesnakes, a mountain lion, a tank full of sharks, double-decker buses, beer trucks, and the Grand Canyon! Acknowledged in the Guinness Book of Records with the most broken bones in a lifetime, Evel Knievel was Superman on two wheels. Barely 6 months after suffering serious injuries while performing a stunt in London, Knievel jumped 180 feet over greyhound buses with a Harley-Davidson. Impressively, the record was surpassed after 24 years.
6. First Ever Double Backflip – Travis Patrina amazed the entire crowd at the Staples Centre during the 2006 X Games in Los Angeles by completing the first-ever double backflip trick on a motorcycle, earning him legendary status. The whole crowd went insane, and the commentators lost their words, landing Travis Patrina the best motorcycle trick that year.
7. Jumping a football field- In a display of either courage or insanity, Robbie Maddison jumped a football pitch arena at the 2007 Red Bull Experiment event. A feat never achieved before, Robbie Maddison became the first motorcycle rider to surpass the 300-foot barrier. The Aussie daredevil used a Honda CR 500 to elevate 322 feet over a football field at a speed of more than 94 miles per hour.
8. The Wall of Death – As the name suggests, the Wall of Death is perhaps the most treacherous motorcycle stunt ever invented. The technique requires the rider to lean against a vertical angle and maintain the same position throughout the stunt. A simple error, like a neglected pathway, can land the rider in the hospital or even cause death. Regardless, that is not enough to stop Patch McGillicutty. In fact, the motorcyclist has a reputation for riding at the wall of death at a speed of up to 71MPH.
9. Jumping the Snake River Canyon- After being denied the opportunity to jump the Grand Canyon by the federal government, Evel Knievel turned his attention to the Snake River Canyon. Most people thought he had lost his wits until he showed up with a Skincycle X-2 rocket-propelled motorcycle at the edge of a cliff. However, the parachute deployed prematurely, and the wind blew the bike back into the canyon. Even though Evel Knievel did not complete the 1600-foot jump, he made a significant stride in the motorcycle stunt world.
10. Riding on Water – Robbie Maddison must have been tired of riding on land, so he decided to ride a dirt bike on water. Matter fact, he did not ride a motorcycle on a calm lake, but he opted to surf along the enormous ocean waves of Tahiti at a speed of 35MPH. It all sounds impossible but how did he do it? Behind the scenes, Robbie Madison spent 2 years preparing for that specific stunt by fitting the wheels with skis and conducting tests on various water bodies. Eventually, Maddison settled on a modified KTM 250 SX motorcycl,e and after intense risk assessment, he became the first daredevil to ride a motorcycle on water.