I knew with the right speed and the right skis, water has enough surface tension that I should be able to ride my dirt bike on water."Įnter Bill King, a former rocket scientist who as VP of 2Moto engineered one of the first snow conversion kits for dirt bikes. "I'm fascinated by the way water moves around boats," Maddison says. Instead, while at his home in Australia the following winter, he rekindled a thought he'd had many times before while surfing and wakeboarding.
But he decided competing in freestyle was no longer worth the risk. You need to change your lifestyle.' I spent a week in the hospital feeling totally demoralized and contemplating my future."Īfter months of intense physical therapy, Maddison defied the doctors and got back onto his bike. "The doctors said, 'You'll never ride a motorcycle again. "I almost died there on the dirt," Maddison says. In 2012, while practicing for Moto X Speed & Style at X Games Los Angeles, he crashed in the whoops section and broke several ribs, one of which collapsed a lung and pushed against his aorta. He has jumped onto a replica of the Arc de Triomphe in Las Vegas, backflipped London's Tower Bridge and launched across the Corinth Canal in Greece.īut it was a life-altering crash four and a half years ago that led him to rethink the potential of his machine.
One of the most creative action sports athletes, he's won freestyle titles, set Guinness world records for distance-jumping his dirt bike and executed some of the most audacious motorcycle stunts since Evel Knievel. At 35, an age when most freestyle riders have retired from competition or traded two wheels for four, he is as relevant as ever.
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Snow bike is, in fact, only the latest in a series of innovations by Maddison that have prolonged his career. "I'm excited to get back to racing, to how I started in motocross." "It's going to be a stacked field," says Maddison, a freestyle motocross champion famous for his groundbreaking stunts. Maddison will be one of 16 riders debuting Snow BikeCross, a motocross-style, closed-course competition featuring rollers, banked turns and jumps. 26-29), he won't be kicking up dirt - he'll be making tracks in the snow. But when he makes his return at X Games Aspen 2017 (Jan. It's been nearly five years since Australian motocross star Robbie Maddison took on freestyle courses at the X Games. His next quest? The snow at X Games Aspen. Motocross star Robbie Maddison has conquered earth, wind and water on his dirt bike.
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