Las Vegas New Year’s Eve Motorcycle Jump

December 27, 2008 · Print This Article

photo by flipchip • lasvegasvegas.com

Arc de Triomphe at the Paris Resort Las Vegas

whether you’re still looking for something to do that New Year’s Eve and have really been wondering where you might watch someone attempt suicide by motorcycle, next I’ve got precisely 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 soon after 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 that 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. that is the newly improved, hotter than hell Mirage volcano. How do you like your Knievel? Medium rare OK?

Click photos for high rez next 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 instance later. Anyone have an over/under for that one?

photo by flipchip • lasvegasvegas.com

Arc de Triomphe stands nearly one hundred feet above the ground