If you’re still looking for something to do this New Year’s Eve and have really been wondering where you might watch someone attempt suicide by motorcycle, then I’ve got exactly the place, the Las Vegas Strip. Motorcycle daredevil, Robbie Maddison, and his crew of engineers, physicist, mechanics, flight attendants and a TV network will attempt to jump a motorcycle from the ground to a safe landing atop the ten story Arc de Triomphe at the Paris Resort on the Strip. For an encore, he will then jump off the Arc. We can find nothing to substantiate the rumor he’ll be on a bike made by Boeing.
But wait, that’s not all. Another extreme crazy, Rhys Millen, will try to do a first ever backflip in an off road truck, providing he survives practice. Last year Rhys shattered some vertebrae when the truck did a flop instead of a flip. Better luck this year.
There’s even more. Robbie Knievel, yes he’s the son of that Knievel, will attempt to fly his motorbike through the flames of the erupting Mirage volcano. This is the newly improved, hotter than hell Mirage volcano. How do you like your Knievel? Medium rare OK?
Click photos for high rez then check out the landing strip for Maddison. Note, flood lights on top of the Arc in lower photo have been removed in top photo taken a short time later. Anyone have an over/under for this one?