Travis Pastrana lands the Double Backflip at X-Games!!!

**Finn** · 7th August 2006, 10:35

Dover can almost do a triple on a sports bike. He's just got to learn to hang on a wee bit longer.

**Swoop** · 7th August 2006, 12:43

Frickin' impressive!!!

**WINJA** · 7th August 2006, 18:03

Originally Posted by Lias

Thats insane..

On a side note did anyone else watch this and think "Man I wanna see White Trash/Winja do this on a streetmagic?"

IVE DONE THIS ALREADY , IF YOU WANNA SEE IT AGAIN I NEED A WET ROAD AND A CAR TO PULL OUT IN FRONT OF ME

**onearmedbandit** · 7th August 2006, 18:43

I'm sure we could arrange that WINJA, but we need someone on the camera as well.

**Ghost Lemur** · 8th August 2006, 23:15

Just watched 2005 Enduro at Erzburg. Was quiet funny seeing it now, as some of the Yanks (including Pastrana) were having some fun on a practice ski jump (lands in water) and Pastrana mentions doing triple back flips. All I could do is laugh and think "so that's where he practiced those".

On the event, very cool. There's a torrent of it. Other very cool riders including David Knight (who after seeing his performance at Last Man Standing and this event, would have to be one of the best ever riders. He just makes it look way to easy). Christian Pfieffer, who has won the event 4 times, cements his place as a complete nutter. Where most of the riders are on enduro/mx bikes, light, stripped, and struggling. Christian rides a freakin BMW (looks like a dakar), wasn't impressed with the lack of coverage they gave him, but he didn't finish, something about a seperated shoulder.

If you don't know about this event I'd certainly go do some hunting for some clips. 1300 riders "started" in the event in 2005. It gets whittled down to 500 for the main event on Sunday. From which less than 30 finished.

**sAsLEX** · 9th August 2006, 10:09

Originally Posted by Ghost Lemur

Just watched 2005 Enduro at Erzburg. Was quiet funny seeing it now, as some of the Yanks (including Pastrana) were having some fun on a practice ski jump (lands in water) and Pastrana mentions doing triple back flips. All I could do is laugh and think "so that's where he practiced those".

They generally pratice the harder stuff into a huge hole filled with cardboard boxes or foam, see drowning your bike aint the best idea

**FlangMasterJ** · 9th August 2006, 11:34

Originally Posted by Ghost Lemur

Just watched 2005 Enduro at Erzburg. Was quiet funny seeing it now, as some of the Yanks (including Pastrana) were having some fun on a practice ski jump (lands in water) and Pastrana mentions doing triple back flips. All I could do is laugh and think "so that's where he practiced those".

On the event, very cool. There's a torrent of it. Other very cool riders including David Knight (who after seeing his performance at Last Man Standing and this event, would have to be one of the best ever riders. He just makes it look way to easy). Christian Pfieffer, who has won the event 4 times, cements his place as a complete nutter. Where most of the riders are on enduro/mx bikes, light, stripped, and struggling. Christian rides a freakin BMW (looks like a dakar), wasn't impressed with the lack of coverage they gave him, but he didn't finish, something about a seperated shoulder.

If you don't know about this event I'd certainly go do some hunting for some clips. 1300 riders "started" in the event in 2005. It gets whittled down to 500 for the main event on Sunday. From which less than 30 finished.

Yeah I've seen it a couple of times. Pastrana got a really good start but David Knight passed him in the trees. Pastrana DNF'd with a broken waterpump.

I wish they had shown more of the mega bore bikes e.g HP2 and KTM 950.

An amazing event!

**Ghost Lemur** · 9th August 2006, 18:07

Originally Posted by sAsLEX

They generally pratice the harder stuff into a huge hole filled with cardboard boxes or foam, see drowning your bike aint the best idea

Yeah I know. I just found it hugely amusing that he specifically mentioned "triple back flips", given what he just achieved.

Originally Posted by FlangMasterJ

Yeah I've seen it a couple of times. Pastrana got a really good start but David Knight passed him in the trees. Pastrana DNF'd with a broken waterpump.

I wish they had shown more of the mega bore bikes e.g HP2 and KTM 950.

An amazing event!

Knight's an incredible rider and did what Pastrana thought he'd (Pastrana) do. Show up for the first time and blow everyone else out of the water. Whatever Knight has he's got it in bucket loads. I hear he won this year too.

Certainly would have been good to see more of Pfieffer. Doing it on an HP2 is just insane. Just goes to show his bike handling skills really are up there.

Would have been interesting to see the HP2 in those two rocky sections.

The DVD is supposed to have much more footage. To be honest the tv version just seemed like a telemercial for the DVD (didn't help that the torrent I got still had all the commercials left in).