Stunt rider Jonny Davies practising for his attempt to set a new world record for the 'Fastest speed dragged behind a motorcycle’, at Elvington Airfield near York.
This essentially is ‘skiing’ behind a motorcycle at over 160 mph world record attempt.
This essentially is ‘skiing’ behind a motorcycle at over 160 mph world record attempt.
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00:00When he gets on a bike, I've always said, I'd give him a bike with two wheels and he'd find a wheel driver of one.
00:07Hi everyone, Jonny Davies here from JD Stunts. I'm a professional motorcycle stunt rider
00:32and this year I'm going to be attempting the Guinness World Record for the fastest speed
00:35drag behind a motorcycle, which is currently set at 156.3 miles an hour by Gary Rothwell
00:42and he set that in 1999.
00:44And we're at Elvington today, what are you doing here at Elvington, you're just practicing
00:48are you?
00:49Yeah that's right, so today we're at Elvington, this is my final practice before the official
00:53attempt on the 18th of August. So I've dialed on the bike in this morning and just starting
01:00to get the skis on and start jumping off the back and see what speed we can push. We've
01:03got a little bit of a side wind to deal with today, but I've never had to deal with side
01:07wind yet, so we'll see how that goes and if I feel comfy we'll try and get as close to
01:11the record speed as possible.
01:12And what are the skis, what are they made out of?
01:15So the skis are made out of grade 5 titanium, which Red Rose, a titanium specialist, supplied.
01:22And yeah, basically two 3mm sheets welded together with a slight air gap in the bottom
01:27and some 2mm for the straps etc.
01:29Lovely, good.