Red Bull brings in the new year, Levi LaVallee broke his own world record for distance jumped on a snowmobile by launching 412 feet

from
http://www.redbullusa.com/cs/Satellite/en_US/Video/red-bull-new-year-no-limits-021243143084453

ESPN has a much better video at http://espn.go.com/action/story/_/id/7409827/new-year-no-limits

above images from http://pwheelie.blogspot.com/index.html#5677859760282499609
LaVallee jumped alongside Robbie Maddison, who unofficially broke the world record for distance jumped on a motorcycle during practice for Saturday night's event. Maddison said he jumped 392 feet during practice but during the live event, he came up just short of the 391-foot record, landing at 378 feet, 9 inches.

After working out the details of their individual approaches, the pair sailed through the air, in synchronistic fashion, jumping over 300 feet of water from the North to the South at the Embarcadero Marina Park. Robbie Maddison was leading at about 110 mph with Levi LaVallee gaining, as if in the draft, at maybe 120 mph. http://www.ultimatemotorcycling.com/2012-red-bull-jump-lavallee-maddison

And that is about it for news coverage of this spectacle event. Not like its a heavy news day around the world, but basically no one but ESPN and Ultimate Motorcycling were there and reporting about it today

Maddison kick-started the Red Bull series in 2007 by jumping his motorcycle 322 feet in Las Vegas. The following year, he jumped onto and then off the 96-foot high scale version of the Arc de Triomphe at Paris Las Vegas.

Maddison has jumped the 279-foot wide Corinth Canal in Greece, at a height of more than 300 feet above the water, and did a no-handed back flip over the open span on London’s Tower Bridge.

Tere found a great video compilation of the past new years eve Red Bull jumps!

What would New Years Eve be without Levi Lavalee jumping? This time, it will be in San DIego

EVENT INFORMATION
Red Bull: New Year. No Limits. will air live from San Diego, Calif., on Saturday, December 31 at approximately 11 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. PT on ESPN, ESPNHD and ESPN3, immediately following the Chick-Fil-A Bowl.

LaVallee, a seven-time Winter X Games Medalist and champion snowcross racer, will jump his snowmobile alongside Robbie Maddison, who will pilot his motorcycle, as both athletes simultaneously jump over 300 feet of water from the North park to the South park at the Embarcadero Marina Park in the downtown area of San Diego Bay. LaVallee will attempt to break his own record of 361 feet and Maddison will be aiming to eclipse the current record of 391 feet.


From last years jumps:

http://www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite/en_INT/Event/red-bull-new-year-no-limits-2011-021243123493790

Before atv's became commonplace in the 1990's, some people converted their snowmobiles

This last one was a factory conversion kit "Wunder Wheels"

Found on http://home.cogeco.ca/~alamore1/SNOWMOBILES/Sled_Show.html via http://thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com/

Retro snomobile toy of the 70's... Polaris

found on http://mncable.net/~petehonl/snowmobile/index.htm via: http://thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com/

Some cool, some unusual, a couple Hollywood stars even... all with motorcycles, bicycles, brass era cars too. Even a photo of Bonneville

Those wonderful 3 Stooges, the bike is a Crocker Scoutabout 1941

This is something I've never seen

Notice the old spelling of "Authorised"  and the Zephyr V12

Halfway from the original sidecars that were designed to be riden in, to the flat pads that are used for racing

The above pennyfarthing has that unusual design of the Star Safety http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/08/racer-a-zimmerman-and-his-star-safety.html , and is in clear contrast to the below common design

1930 Bohmerland 600

someone really wants that motorcycle in the country

The first big dog motorcycle?

1910, the first chopper? Probably

Canoe sidecar

A dual rear mount sidecar

Charles Lindbergh on an Excelsior

English tricar

How long do you suppose he had those stupid handlebars before someone laughed at him?

Fire truck... not the first I've posted, but the better of the two

Betty

all from http://bikerflorida.com/forum/index.php/topic,396.475.html