is not fish tailing i must be good. i lift my visor up and put the bike in neutral and bow made head and say a quick little prayer. he puts the bike back in gear and that s all he remembers. the jump and it horrifying result are caught on camera. i don t remember getting closer to the ramp or shifting the motorcycle. i don t remember getting closer and closer and positioning myself for the jump. i don t remember any of that stuff. and i certainly don t remember the helicopter ride that, you know, sent me to scripps memorial hospital which is where i woke up a day or two later. bubba breaks a lot of bones, not to mention a state-of-the-art helmet. that is a $1,000 indy car
light show company and we rocked it. all the cars were white. we wanted them to look really uniform. and we spent most of our concentration on making sure that we put on a fantastic show for everybody. and if i had that to do over again i think i would spent more time on making sure i got to the other ramp. in front of 35,000 spectators and a backdrop befitting a like star, bubba appears. i get out there and doing the show and we got the lasers going on the pyro going and everything was working really good but i m making all these passes back and forth. wheelies and it s going really good. i made all these passes and a chewed up the watered-down surface. it s now a bunch of like running in the sand. i m in fourth gear. i m going to the rmp. the engine is i m, you know, sounds good. i m at a high rpm and the bike
i can fathom is the simple fact as i m going to the ramp the bike is spinning and there s just enough speed being robbed because of the traction issue that i simply didn t make the landing ramp. i wasn t even close. the accident may have broken his body but certainly, not his spirit. or his trade mark self-deprecating sense of humor. now that i m fortunate enough to have all the world records, i ll do this a little harder, that s one of the things you usually get a pass on because your name is bubba from alabama but we re having so much fun now you learn from your mistakes. what i ve always enjoyed about doing what i do is the excitement and for the longest time that s what i focused on is how exciting can i make it for everybody? bubba is still jumping motorcycles, but he s also a father now. something he says, has slowed him down. well, somewhat. before, i used to always
just a good old boy from alabama but all joking a side what but u does takes talent, skill, planning and a lot of guts. when i dead a big jump, anything can happen. on july 4th, 2001, the worst happens. the last thing i remember is putting the bike in gear and putting the clutch out. he attempts to jump 22 cars at the time del mar fair in california and he performed a crowd-pleasing show in 1999. we drew a record crowd and i jumped over 14 school buses. cool jump. it went great. flawless. and i said, we got to do it again and i was thinking, oh, yeah, i got the perfect plan. my idea was to jump over 22 cars on a harley davidson motorcycle off a seven-foot high rarn. ever the showman, but u intends to give the audience their money s worth. so they day started off good and they paid old bubba to be there so i wanted to make sure i did my job so i hired a laser
of nearly 81 miles an hour. in is an active volcano in nicaragua. it s to be the last ride of his professional career. known as the red baron he prepares for the run with a specially-designed mountain bike prototype. he makes the trek up and gets ready to go. he mounts the bike and hits the slope. he flying down the vine at a d dizzying speed. and suddenly the bicycle seemings to desent greissent gre tumbles down the slope for nearly 110 yards. when he finally comes to a stop he s still conscious but barely.