Aussie Freestyle Motocross rider Robbie Maddison, has made history by riding the powerful waves of Tahiti with his highly-modified motorbike.
With small skis on the front wheel, propeller fins on the rear, Maddison realises an idea that he came up with while watching his wife wakeboard.
‘I guess the idea originally came from-well I mean I’m obviously a motorcycle guy-but I was on the back of a boat and we were cruising along the river and I’m looking at the wake coming up the back, watching her wakeboard, and something clicked in my head,’ he said.
‘I fantasized putting skis on a bike and riding on water. It was a stupid vision at the time, but I kept toying with it, playing with designs and concepts, and eventually it became a reality.’
Maddison claims success in pulling off the daring stunt was due to the fact that he’d spent many years in his youth riding waves on traditional boards.
‘I was only comfortable in this scenario because I’ve spent the majority of my life dropping in on waves,’ he said.
‘If I hadn’t been a surfer at heart, I couldn’t have pulled it off.’
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