jose yanez landed the first backflip on a motocross bike.
jose yanez landed the first backflip on a motocross bike.
who landed the first backflip on a motocross bike?
jose yanez
in 1991, jose yanez became the first person to backflip a motocross bike. he practiced for it by flipping his motorcycle into the salt river, just as he had done with his bmx bike. he would kill the engine on his 80cc motorcycle just before he hit the water to prevent damage to the bike. yanez performed the world's first ramp-to-ramp motocross backflip on an 80cc motorcycle in october, 1991 on an 8' tall box jump he built himself in pagosa springs, colorado. jose's next motocross backflip attempt, this time for the national enquirer resulted in a crash that kept jose off motorcycles and bicycles for two years due to an injured knee.
freestyle motocross
in 2000, carey hart attempted the first backflip on a full-size motocross bike off a modified dirt landing ramp at the gravity games 2000. the landing was less than perfect, and hart crashed immediately after. but freestyle motocross was forever changed. many people started to attempt it, such as travis pastrana, who attempted the backflip off a step up jump at summer x games freestyle. he bailed off mid-flight, breaking his foot. the trick was still not attempted on a normal fmx setup, off a ramp-to-dirt setup. hart attempted the backflip again at summer x games in 2001, during the moto x best trick competition, but bailed off the bike in the air, seriously injuring himself.
freestyle motocross