I agree that Luke saw the best jump of the two. The Knievel one was lame. Next up he heads to London to repeat his fathers jump over the buses. He is smart enough that he rides a dirt bike built for jumping unlike the Harley that his dad used. I watched the London jump back in 1975 and it was not pretty. I'd rather see a lame Robby jump than another crash like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6qy9MNJRNQ&NR=1
Robbie does all of his jumps on a Honda CR500. Which is light years better than what evel was on, but is now 20 years old technolgy wise. Im really wondering what he is going to do. He dad did that jump on a 1975 XR 750 harley. So is Robbie going to do it on the EXACT same bike? Or is it going to be a XR-750 with some modern improvents? Like perhaps some 47mm Showa forks from a MX bike. His dad came up a couple feet short and clipped the landing ramp, I wonder if robbie will have a little more room, or more power.
I hope he has been practicing. motocross bikes are designed to be stable and balanced in the air, harleys are not. It has to be be some transition to go from jumping a cr500 to a harley.
I can see why he would want to do this. Modern freestyle riders are making him look like a novice. Mike Metzger did the Caesars Palace Fountain jump while also doing a backflip at the same time. That and the fact that he has always been considered "evel lite" since he was riding a cr500 and not a harley.