first ever backflip (1986)

[Dying-to-Live]

First ever Backflip on a moto?


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[__PETEY__]

cool......

[yz250_rider]

wow thats prity cool

[04cr250r]

wow that was sweet

[bear_beckett]

thats very interesting indeed.. who was the rider that did that!? and were is he these days?
lost of interesting questions can be raised too..

[creamcakes]

that was pretty cool. like bear said, many q's could be raised.

[ABD]

lol get ****ed sum guy hs decided it'd be cool to stage it if that was truly the firsat flip why did you just post it now why not back then and did they even have colour cameras is 1986

[Dying-to-Live]

lol get ****ed sum guy hs decided it'd be cool to stage it if that was truly the firsat flip why did you just post it now why not back then and did they even have colour cameras is 1986

aparently in some interview metz talked about him doing the first flip. apparently he was a bmx freestyler and he was the first to backflip a bmx also.

i only posted it now because thats when i saw it

and colour cameras were around in the 70s im pretty sure.

ps. how the **** was i supposed to post back then. first of all fmx australia wasnnt around in 1986 it was created in 2002 dumbass and second im only 14 this happened in 1986 which if you do the maths is 7 years before i was born.

[sirandrew]

lol get ****ed sum guy hs decided it'd be cool to stage it if that was truly the firsat flip why did you just post it now why not back then and did they even have colour cameras is 1986

tey deffinatly had colour cameras then, theres colour footage of the second world war... unless its remastered into colour.... which i doubt, but yeh, deffinatly had colour.

haha sweet vid, doesnt have much style about him, but yeh, it was the first flips so cant blame him haha thats mad

[blake_yz250f]

but if questions were raised. people would argue that it wasnt the first on a BIG BIKE... cuz its only a 80.

[Brock_slur666]

ps. how the **** was i supposed to post back then. first of all fmx australia wasnnt around in 1986 it was created in 2002 dumbass and second im only 14 this happened in 1986 which if you do the maths is 7 years before i was born.

arrr dude i think he was talking about the guy who did the flip, if they did it first back in 86....y wouldnt they show someone instead of just leaving the footage sitting there up until now, just seems a bit weird not to show the first ever backflip when it happened

[jayden warner]

well that sumthing!!

but why wasnt it added on youtube alot earlier then 7 months ago.....
hmmm

[Dying-to-Live]

but why wasnt it added on youtube alot earlier then 7 months ago.....

lost the footage?..maybe

[Flarry]

Amazing... I thaught Caleb Wyatt was the first..

Could have been staged, the guy says he filmed it...

[thormx683]

thats sickk but the bike doesnt sound too healthy coming up the ramp tho lol

[JoNy.B]

i reckon they just got an old biek and put old gear on n did it. lol

[Dying-to-Live]

he didnt even have his helmet on proprly on the first attempt cause he loses it when he crashes

[2000-cr125-92]

good on him for landing it in 1986 if it was 1986
but do you recon he had a foam pit or just went for it?

[Evanzie #23]

Metz was talking about Bob Cohl. He flipped a CR80 in 96. He was a BMXer.. Never seen that footage before so i cant help you with that one.

[ABD]

dude i only got this off of fmtx and i dont know much about it but aparently in some interview metz talked about him doing the first flip. apparently he was a bmx freestyler and he was the first to backflip a bmx also.

i only posted it now because thats when i saw it on fmtx.

and colour cameras were around in the 70s im pretty sure.

ps. how the **** was i supposed to post back then. first of all fmx australia wasnnt around in 1986 it was created in 2002 dumbass and second im only 14 this happened in 1986 which if you do the maths is 7 years before i was born.


whoa dumbass who ever said post it on fmxaus!!! how bout go to a magazine!!!!

[mezza_fmx]

ok personally i think it was NOT from the 80's
i think that it was filmed recently
becasue if it was fromt he 80's why have we not seen it earlier? and also it isnt that hard to make new footage look like very old footage with teh computer prgrams we have these days and all he would have had to do was get an old bike get some old racing gear build a scabby looking wooden set up download some sound effects from old movies off limewire and WOLLA! you have yaself some footage which looks like it is from the mid-late 80's

[Snowy#170]

Metz was talking about Bob Cohl. He flipped a CR80 in 96. He was a BMXer.. Never seen that footage before so i cant help you with that one.


I think this was on the mountain bike video called hammer time.

And they always refer to the first backflip in competition, not the first back flip ever.

[__PETEY__]

yer using window movie maker u can make footage look old so it culd of possibly done recently as sed by mezza

[blake_yz250f]

ok peeps. just found this. It should answer most of ur questions...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubgNwT_McLg&feature=related

[kawi362]

well i was whatching a show about caled whiet on fuel coupel year sback and they showed footage of a bloke fliping a cr 80 back in the 80's i belive

[DirtBikeDude823]

if that was real we need to find out what that guys name was definitly.

[DirtBikeDude823]

I found this on EXPN.com about Bob Kohl.
BOB KOHL
Born: FRANKFURT GER
Birthdate: 06/03/1970
Height: 5 ft 9 in
Weight: 180 lbs.
Hometown: DES PLAINES, IL USA
Occupation: PRO-RIDER
Marital Status: Single
Children: 1
Participant since: 1976
Competitor since: 1982
Notable:
Bob Kohl has been on a 20-inch bike for as long or longer than some XG competitors have been alive. He is the first person to have completed a backflip on a motorcycle (an 80cc) back in 1993. Bob was sidetracked by massive injuries from the backflip stunt in 1995, the year he was going to begin his BMX competition comeback. Today Bob is boosting huge airs out of the vert ramp, doing shows with his Ride and Grind crew, and raising his seven year-old son Jake.

Quote:
The motorized backflip cost Bob a serious toll on his body. He explains, "I got hurt pretty bad doing [the flip] in shows. I got busted up pretty good so I put [the 80cc] away. I shattered my hip and pelvis, had internal bleeding, broken ribs, I had trouble with my liver and spleen. Then my lungs went out and I had a tracheotomy. I was pretty much in the intensive care unit for two months."

[fiddy_freestyle]

hmm, i dunno if i believe this, ive seen a doco and it has Wyatt riding away the first flip off a step-up, and then metz was first huck it off a ramp. my two bobs

[chikofmx]

yeh this is a bit weird why if he was the first to do it bring it up now.

[metal_miracle]

bob kohl did flips form 1993 to 1996
he made them 70%
in 1996 he stoped after he over shot the landing since he over compensate on the in run and laning on the pavment.

an the bike was an cr 80 93

i too would like knowing the name of the rider flipping that movie

[MorrisFMX]

According to the youtube comments the guys name in that video was "Jose Yanez"

[cameronh]

I always thought that carey hart was the first to make a motorcycle flip, because before that people didn't reckon it was possible because they thought that the centrivical force of the motor would stop it from flipping.

[CFH]

holly sh t that's a back flip no doubt old to people ware just as loos back then
pushing the limits but didn't have the technology PC web mytube and thay probably didn't give a dam ether its not like it was going to be an every day thing with Wat thay had crap bikes helmets suspension .......
i love the 80`s

[#000]

First of all to all you 14 year old kids who think Caleb was the first to land a flip on a moto your wrong... YES Caleb was the first to "ride away from the flip on a big bike" but he wasn't the first to flip... As far as i knew Bob Kholl *sp* was the first to land a flip on moto (size aside cause it was an 80cc) still nuts but cause he did it a bunch of times on a portable set up with shows...

Carey Hart is the real god of the flip... There is no despute in anyone who has a shmick about the sport that Hart landed the first "real" flip (big bike, full rotation, slapped it down)...

As for this new stuff... Could be photoshoped, maybe not... i don't know, if its real im not surprised, just cause sumthing wasn't in the media doesn't mean it didn't happen, madddddd props to the guy if its the real deal... ;)

Luv Joel.

[anxiety racing]

did anyone not wonder why he didnt do it on a dirt down ramp??? making it softer lol

[lil McCann]

old thread but any who. poeple on smaller motorbikes have been doing them for a long time im pretty sure a guy stomps a flip on a 50 in one of the early crusty vids i guess thats the reason this bloke was never given the credit he probably deserves, who was the first to flip a motor?, no one could know for sure and it takes instances like this to show people they dont know everything and for the kids that say no this cant be so becuase i saw a documentary? grow up dude and open your mind a little. You will never learn anything in life if you think you already know everything.