Bubba Blackwell Revisiting Jump that Nearly Cost Him His Life
February 13, 2010 by Buy a Used Motorcycle
Filed under Events, Motorcycle Stunts
The amazing Bubba Blackwell will be trying to jump 22 Ford Focus cars again, which will break his personal record of most cars jumped. He will be making the jump at New Hampshire’s Rockingham Park on June 12, 2010. He will be making the attempt on a Harley-Davidson XR750, the same type bike used by Evel Knievel in his stunts.
The last time Bubba attempted this jump he hit short of the landing ramp causing him to be thrown through the air at 70 mph. He sustained multiple life threatening injuries, which included a major head injury, 19 broken bones and two collapsed lungs.
Here’s the video of the infamous crash that nearly cost Bubba Blackwell his life.
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Source [AllAboutBikes.com, Bubba Blackwell]
Family’s Motorcycle-Shaped Urn Stolen
February 11, 2010 by Buy a Used Motorcycle
Filed under General
Apparently things weren’t going bad enough for a family in Daytona Beach, Florida.
An urn fashioned to look like a motorcycle engine and was intended to hold the ashes of a man and his son was stolen from a Daytona Beach home.
Craig Aumack, 33, was killed Saturday in a motorcycle crash, and before his death, his wish was for his ashes to be placed in the special urn that held the remains of his father, who was known as “Pops.”
“You don’t steal from the dead. That’s a sin,” said Tracy Vaughn, Craig Aumack’s ex-wife. “I don’t know if the person who stole it realizes it’s an urn. They probably think it’s a motorcycle part.”"It was very, very important to me. It was ‘Poppa’ and he was really, really good,” said Craig Aumack’s 7-year-old daughter, Olivia.
The Aumacks believe someone broke into their house the day after Craig Aumack’s death, stealing the homemade urn, a Harley-Davidson jacket and a laptop computer.
Source [Click Orlando]
