Bubba Blackwell Makes Jump

By WKRG Staff
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Motorcycle daredevil successfully jumps 52 cars at local racetrack. See the jump here. Bubba Blackwell Makes Jump
Published: Sat, October 04, 2008 - 10:18 pm Last Updated: Sat, October 04, 2008 - 10:20 pm
It took 3 practice runs, but motorcycle daredevil Bubba Blackwell managed to launch his motorcycle over 52 cars art Deep South Speedway in Loxley Saturday night.
Blackwell originally said he would jump 42 cars to celebrate his 42nd birthday, but later upped the ante to 52 cars, saying he wanted to beat a world record set by his boyhood idol Evel Knievel.
Blackwell made 3 apparent practice runs at the ramp, each time veering off at the last second.
On the fourth try, he hit the takeoff ramp and successfully made the jump.


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you know pamdlee, your post is so crazy. if the smoke from the fireworks did not bother you i doubt the cigarette smoke did. people are so 2nd hand smoke minded now its stupid. it sure does not take much to ruin an event for you.

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Dear Pamdlee:
Not all of us smokers don’t care about other people because I do! My friend has a daughter with asthma and when they are at my house which is 90% of the time WE go outside to smoke to keep it away from her. My point is we were all outside. So there for wouldn’t it be hard for your child our anyone else to not breathe in the smoke when it is all in the same air? So they should of made a area for all the non-smokers all closed in so the smoke filled air wouldn’t get to you all! I’m so very sorry you had to sit next to people who didn’t care! But, think about it this way, do you care about their free will to smoke?? NO! So, why should they care about you? That is how most people are! There will never be a way to make all non-smokers happy! It is bad enough they have pretty much banned smoking from all public places! God Bless you Pamdlee and your family!

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Well PEOPLE:

I obviously hit a nerve with you smokers! I don’t care if you smoke, but please don’t blow it in my face or my childrens face. I have been to events when there was a lot of smoking, but it didn’t compare to what we experienced the other night. YOUR RIGHT! I will sit on my couch at my home the next time due to my whinning and inability to be satisfied… I grew up in the country, motorcylce riding, atving, mudding, etc. I would not attempt to make the jump. I think he done a good job jumping… It was the media that had built it up to the point that it was going to be more than what it turned out to be. (Thats my perception). Yall just go have a good time and continue not to care about anyone but yourself… One of my son’s has asthma and he was having trouble breathing.(No matter 2u) Just forget anything I said on my blog since you all seem to have a huge problem with it. If you can’t say anything nice,don’t bother saying anything at all.My greif was the smoke not Bubba

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Well Pamdlee you sound like a person who is hard to please so like MeAmerican said stay at home! Us smokers like to enjoy ourselves to. It is a outside event did you exspect people to not be smoking?? I did enjoy myself and it is so sad that you and your family didn’t. And Evil Knievil did his jump in the same way. I would like to see any of you complainers go ahead and make that jump if you are so much better!! God Bless Bubba and Evil Knievil for what they have done! They are both great men for what they’ve done! Also like MeAmerican said Who in this world could really make a jump over 52 cars lined up side by side??????? And who would be that crazy to try it? Not me!! Would you??? On a closing note God Bless You Bubba!! You are awesome and keep doing what your doing!!

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Well let’s say that each car is 5 feet wide times 52 comes out to nearly 260 feet. Almost a football field. Nobody on any cycle would attempt or make that jump. Known Bubba a long time and he’s done some pretty amazing stunts. As minimal as this jump may have seemed to some, I for one would not have tried it on that Harley. It was a promotional SHOW. And a fine showman he was. Exactly what were some expecting to see? Under the conditions and equipment I have only Kudos for the MAN! Oh and did I mention that just a couple of hours before the jump he had a serious mechanical failure that had him in question just how the landing would play out? Way to go Bubba, It was great to see ya!!

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Flipper, you almost make it sound like you could do better. If that’s the case, show us. Otherwise realize that 5-10 cars is a great feat, more or less the distance Bubba traveled. I don’t have the guts to attempt it, nor does anyone on this forum that I know of. That’s why he’s on the news, and we just typing in the forum! J.M.O! grin

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maybe bubba meant to stack them one on top of another. your right, i was expecting 52 cars lined up end to end, guess there just wasnt that kind of sponsorship available. maybe next time if he opened theinfield for parking, not for everyone just say the first 52 people, and lined those cars up in the infield, . . . . thats a vido i would like to see, but also the expressions on peoles faces when they realized what was going on. . .

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OKAY just curious but when you say you are going to jump 52 cars, I would think it would be 52 cars lined up side by side.  This jump didn’t look like it was very far and all the cars were crushed….  Just curious but is this how all these kinds of jumps are done, to me it is misleading a little.

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That was the lamest, most exaggerated, disappointing farce I have ever seen. Bubba, you advertise 52 cars but jump a pile of trash that measures 110’?? DON’T ever talk bad about Robbie Knievel. Why didn’t you crush 20 more and pile them on top? You suck dude.

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Right! How about a designated non-smokers area, like yor sofa at home. Whiner!!

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