Rex Blackwell - Motorbike jumping

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  • Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
  • Magic Moment from 1979 - Rex Blackwell - jump 2 buses - for new record.

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  • @richlewis1879
    @richlewis1879 Рік тому +15

    I'll always say it, older footage makes Rex look 45. He was 26 LOL

  • @rylanblackwell3676
    @rylanblackwell3676 3 роки тому +10

    This is my grandpa

    • @genepaulk6902
      @genepaulk6902 3 роки тому +3

      Your Grand Pa was a great jumper back in the day !!! All my hero's jump motorcycle's and your Grand Pa is my hero too !!! ✌🏻😎✌🏻 Good Luck and God Bless young man !!!

    • @julieschmidt5605
      @julieschmidt5605 Рік тому

      Rylan, are you in Cedar Rapids?

    • @Repomam2000
      @Repomam2000 2 місяці тому

      Balls of Steele.

  • @Dani2wheels
    @Dani2wheels 3 роки тому +13

    I've never seen a 46 year old 26yo before, but I have now

    • @Dax893
      @Dax893 Рік тому +1

      Exactly what I wanted to say: He ain't 26, he's a hard 40.

  • @davemonday5381
    @davemonday5381 3 роки тому +7

    I have a Yamaha exactly the same has that one. Respect. That bike has so little suspension travel

    • @donbrashsux
      @donbrashsux Рік тому

      A slow old TT 500

    • @davemonday5381
      @davemonday5381 Рік тому

      @@donbrashsux wow I must have had the sound turned down. I presumed it was a early YZ400. I have a xt500 and have had TT’s in the passed. They are incredibly heavy. He gets even more respect.
      I bumped into Jason Rennie a few weeks after he’d jumped 248 ft.world record at the time, in a football stadium. If I remember right from where he started his run he couldn’t see the the take off ramp when he hit the take off ramp he couldn’t see the landing ramp and there wasn’t much run off after the landing theses guys are nut. But he’s a Nice guy
      He sold me a set of tyres. Told me they where hardly used. I once rode 300 miles to watch Eddie Kidd do his world record I’ve own a few of eddies bikes. Another top guy.

    • @donbrashsux
      @donbrashsux Рік тому

      @@davemonday5381 the YZ 400 would be the go was it a CDE or F model

    • @davemonday5381
      @davemonday5381 Рік тому

      @@donbrashsux the last motocross Yamaha I had was a mx400B 1975 is was a show bike and to nice to use. I have the DT400B and DT250mx both in new condition and the XT500 it’s very tricked up I bought it in Japan. I’ve been looking out for a good 78/ 79 YZ probably a 250. Ho I’ve just remembered there a sr400 brat conversion also from Japan that’s a fantastic little bike. I don’t know how the Japanese tuners get so much usable power out of them it pulls like a train. And looks a 1950s British scrambler. I had a quick look inside it. Trick cam high compression a fancy Japanese electronics open after market filter. I bought for my wife I didn’t realise what a little monster it was at the time. I tried some big jumps for a while. I had a close call when the ramp gave way in the middle when I hit it. It sprang and sent me upwards and slightly to the left I didn’t think I was going to make to the sand landing ramp. I was going higher rather than forwards. I slid down the left side of the sand and walked away.
      It was a eye opener and I decided I couldn’t afford to have time off work with broken legs.
      I really do have total respect for these guys.

  • @bubbablackwell7201
    @bubbablackwell7201 10 років тому +11

    Before I started, this is the only motorcycle jumper I'd ever seen Live. No relation tho.
    Bubba

    • @willybizz
      @willybizz  10 років тому +1

      Lucky guy, really great occasion wasn't it ? I wonder is he still doing his thing ?
      Happy day's.

    • @willybizz
      @willybizz  10 років тому +1

      Lucky guy, really great occasion wasn't it ? I wonder is he still doing his thing ?Happy day's.

    • @thelifeofbks
      @thelifeofbks Рік тому

      That’s funny Bubba! I saw this and wondered if this was your older brother 😂😂Hope you’re doing well bro! Bryan

  • @williambray3996
    @williambray3996 2 місяці тому

    I watched this on tv as a kid

  • @DJAndyC
    @DJAndyC Рік тому +1

    Never mind the bike, what a lovely wife

  • @benowen5792
    @benowen5792 3 роки тому +9

    If a person can go 105 feet on a stock 1979 TT 500 then today’s bikes should go 700 feet plus

    • @kellydittus4772
      @kellydittus4772 3 роки тому

      That bike was a good choice in 79.

    • @donbrashsux
      @donbrashsux Рік тому +1

      Yz 400 F Yamaha would have been a lot better

  • @mikelandreth
    @mikelandreth 13 років тому +4

    The Jumpoff's were on CBS SPORTS SPECTACTULAR and this jump I believe was on NBC'S Weekend WWOS type show. Rex was the best and a real great guy too.

  • @fictionuk
    @fictionuk 13 років тому +2

    I remember this guy. he had a jump-off with Eddie Kidd in the UK around '79.

  • @ronaldshank7589
    @ronaldshank7589 Рік тому

    He hit that, just right!
    Great jump!

  • @nixworld767
    @nixworld767 3 роки тому +3

    Good woman. I hope they stayed together.

  • @willybizz
    @willybizz  13 років тому +4

    @fictionuk
    I agree , magic moments stand out in the memory , I am looking through my old stuff , as i am sure there is more. Thanks for watching. nice to have feedback .

  • @1958indyfan
    @1958indyfan 3 роки тому +2

    Jumps like these seem so quaint today with guys like Robbie Madison jumping 378'. I wonder what kind of suspension travel RB had in those days? Couldn't have been much.

  • @stevestarr9769
    @stevestarr9769 5 років тому +3

    Has ANY jump ever NOT been called a world record??????? I get marketing, but really?

  • @mnicrashSoren
    @mnicrashSoren 3 роки тому +4

    Crazy we hit 100ft gaps on a casual weekend how things change

    • @lomasck
      @lomasck 3 роки тому +2

      I was thinking that myself.125ft in the Sand dunes on a YZ490 in 1987.

    • @bigears4426
      @bigears4426 3 роки тому +2

      mnicrashSoren and the bikes changed very quickly, suspension wise

    • @georgefrempter596
      @georgefrempter596 3 роки тому

      I LOVED TO WATCH RYAN CAPES JUMP !!! RIP The last time I Seen Him He hit 490 !!! Anyone that Goes BIG IS TOTALLY BADASS I’m Taking from BMX UP !!!! 💪💪

  • @user-qi5cp5hk3d
    @user-qi5cp5hk3d 7 місяців тому

    nice jump rex hox do they get or have medical coverage

  • @jeffjohnson1302
    @jeffjohnson1302 Рік тому

    I did this on my Trike Bike in 1973.

  • @craigm2484
    @craigm2484 3 роки тому

    Great stuff!

  • @travishaynes1180
    @travishaynes1180 8 місяців тому

    What was he riding!!? Is that an old RM ? My god his wife was nearly hysterical !! Poor gal , I could not do anything like that again after seeing his dear wife react the way she did. You'd have to be heartless to put her through that again !!!😢

  • @petemycek9909
    @petemycek9909 3 роки тому +4

    I did that when I was 10 on my bicycle. Who didn’t??

    • @TheGodParticle
      @TheGodParticle Рік тому

      Me too, plus a matchbox pick-up truck as well, I was badass

  • @fictionuk
    @fictionuk 13 років тому

    @willybizz I wasn't actually there (I wish I was), I saw it on World Of Sport (probably at 1:10pm before the sodding horse racing OR 3:10pm AFTER the ITV 7 (can't believe I remember all this ha ha ha) and honestly, even now i remember it as if it was yesterday. As a kid I was well into the car/bus jumping thing and still am today. . . oh and thanx for for posting this as well. Great stuff man B-)

  • @benowen5792
    @benowen5792 3 роки тому

    I’m impressed

  • @petej.8676
    @petej.8676 3 роки тому +2

    Looks like Rick Rude

  • @joesanchezii4461
    @joesanchezii4461 3 роки тому

    Is this some new Jack Black project? NNNAAACCCHHHHOOOO!!!!

  • @the1spen
    @the1spen Рік тому

    I didn’t know that Rick Rude jumped buses.

  • @willybizz
    @willybizz  13 років тому

    @fictionuk
    Thats right, he is not that well known in UK, count yourself lucky to have seen him at that event.

  • @buckmurdoch9825
    @buckmurdoch9825 Рік тому +1

    What’s more impressive is he did the jump while completely stoned!!!
    😆😆😆

    • @jimhamby1858
      @jimhamby1858 Рік тому

      who would have tried otherwise! not me

    • @Deved89
      @Deved89 Рік тому

      its a performance enhancer lol

  • @MrRichard57000
    @MrRichard57000 3 роки тому +1

    Yamaha xt 500?

  • @123limelight
    @123limelight Рік тому

    nobody was as great as evil kenevel

  • @John-nl4lt
    @John-nl4lt Рік тому

    I was waiting on a shark 🦈

  • @willybizz
    @willybizz  13 років тому

    @mikelandreth
    Thats correct as I remember, as I cannot find the recordings I made of the events, I wonder do you have any footage ? great stuff is'nt it.

  • @archivestereo
    @archivestereo Рік тому

    Is he related to Bubba Blackwell

  • @jimboslice9472
    @jimboslice9472 Рік тому +1

    rex enbredwell

  • @cheebug
    @cheebug Рік тому

    26 year olds used to be 45 year olds.

  • @davidmaguire7385
    @davidmaguire7385 3 роки тому +2

    😅....2020 ..distance record well over 300ft

    • @mr.channel6467
      @mr.channel6467 3 роки тому

      360 or something like that as big as a foot ball field, I should be riding with Alex harvill tomorrow he’s got a video of him jumping about 350 feet

    • @jonhenry8595
      @jonhenry8595 3 роки тому +1

      Like to see the do it on an old bike.

  • @richlewis1879
    @richlewis1879 Рік тому

    He started professionally at the age of 38. WTF he looks 50

  • @mercoid
    @mercoid Рік тому

    Elvis broke every bone in Evel Knievel’s body

  • @jasonjohnson3037
    @jasonjohnson3037 3 роки тому +1

    I could have made that jump with my Spider-Man big wheel when I was 3 years old in 1976

    • @schmeevo1
      @schmeevo1 2 роки тому

      Ya but you didn’t did ya

    • @thatmanstumototours2270
      @thatmanstumototours2270 2 роки тому

      Being f.o.s. is not really something one should advertise, but hey, you do you...

    • @dmc554
      @dmc554 Рік тому

      😂

    • @dmc554
      @dmc554 Рік тому

      😂

  • @Htiler
    @Htiler Рік тому

    He's 26......56 maybe?

  • @mr.channel6467
    @mr.channel6467 3 роки тому

    I’m watching dudes jump shit like this at the dunes every day

    • @brandonthompson8411
      @brandonthompson8411 3 роки тому +6

      But not on a 76 TT500

    • @neighborhoodprepped7862
      @neighborhoodprepped7862 Рік тому

      @@brandonthompson8411 exactly that’s why these younger guys don’t understand.. how Harvey was that bike and with little no suspension

    • @Goodboy0953
      @Goodboy0953 Рік тому

      @@brandonthompson8411 nor a 6ft wide takeoff and landing ramp!!!

  • @mikemccag
    @mikemccag 3 роки тому

    The cameraman did a pitiful job on this one

  • @cristinajuan9501
    @cristinajuan9501 7 років тому

    That's my husbands boss!!

    • @willybizz
      @willybizz  7 років тому

      Does he still race,,,,? he was so good/

  • @crawlercrew874
    @crawlercrew874 3 роки тому

    Is this Bubba's dad?

  • @tbone67gthenderson78
    @tbone67gthenderson78 3 роки тому

    What kind of bike was that

  • @MaxxDoberman
    @MaxxDoberman 4 роки тому +2

    Music is corny as hell. LOL

    • @stephenmorris3696
      @stephenmorris3696 3 роки тому +1

      yea didn't suit the occasion, unless he was jumping over a shark tank.

  • @clintperry799
    @clintperry799 Рік тому

    SNOOZE

  • @garydouglass9577
    @garydouglass9577 6 років тому +1

    Fuck the rest. Best ever jumper was Eddie Kidd until his accident. He would take them all. Evel bottled it and Eddie beat Robbie, video fact on UA-cam. Nobody else wanted to try Eddie Kidd out. Fkn legend. Never forgotten Eddie we love you mate 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧✌️✌✌✌✌✌