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what's up guys i'm robbie madison
welcome to my backyard
come on in
so here we are essentially in the middle
of my backyard
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so originally the lay of the land here
was a lot like my neighbor's yard you
see over here it's kind of like this
gentle sloping hill
and that's exactly how it was here when
i first moved in there was actually
vineyards here
but they suddenly got ripped out and we
put all this in for motorcycles so as
you enter my yard the first thing that
you notice is the freestyle motocross
landing here on the right hand side
it is the standard jump that you would
expect to see at an event like x games
rebel x fighters that kind of style
where
we hit this jump all the time it's where
we practice all of our tricks
it's called the madhouse we have a lot
of fun here
and obviously i have the coolest
neighbors in the world because they let
me ride here and even
have allowed me to extend the kids track
into their yard
thanks kale there's a lot of other stuff
so let's check it all out
so this is the different ramps this ramp
here the 120 ramp
you generally hit that in about third
gear on a 450 or a 250 two-stroke
and these bad boys here a lot of guys
hit him in first gear
some guys hit him in second especially
the ones gone for the double backflip
they hit in second gear
because as they're upside down and
throttle goes wide open
the engine in a higher gear spins faster
and that rotational mass helps the
backflip happen
this line here is the double double line
the dangerous part about this
is the lips always changing and when it
was first done it was done with an
excavator
so the lip was super steep and long and
shoot you really high we used to
backward that jump
yeah it's a fun jump
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one of the key things to having a ride
spot is having one of these bad boys a
fire hose
it's kind of uh the dirt bike rider's
way of making it perfect every day
and that's the goal i do here i get up
in the mornings i water the course with
the fire hose it's like a surfer if you
could control the weather and have
offshore winds and barreling six foot
every day you do it so
as a bike rider this just makes life on
the bike so much better it changes the
whole experience
it was all kind of built knowing that i
want to have a foam pit
and that brings us over here i put in
this giant foam pit and at the time i
was at the top of my freestyle game
and trying to be at the top of the spot
you always had to have that new trick
and that's why i built the foam pit is
really to hone in the body varial
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this gate here folds down touches the
ground so as the riders come in from
from this angle it looks very inviting
there's nothing that's kind of standing
your way
and you know obviously when the guys hit
this ramp this is
a superkicker doing double backflips it
just kind of shoots them to the moon so
they're up super high
rotating and and then yeah they kind of
disappear into the foam
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it gets really hot here in the
summertime so we get to ride during the
day come out here relax in the afternoon
take a swim it's not too bad
welcome to my garage got the new bell
moto 10 here i'm super stoked about it
got bad dog on there
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this is my moto bike so this one here's
a full factory ktm
edition with all the parts the hard
although all the ktm power parts on it
this is my freestyle bike and what makes
this a lot different than this bike is
we cut the subframe out so obviously
it's a lot easier to grab here we move
this
this part of the subframe up for doing
freestyle if you just have the regular
subframe it's like a really big grab
and so this makes it smaller got the
flip levers here
for doing upside down tricks doing
backflips and even right side up tricks
some of the bar tricks you know these
things save you
they just kind of sit like that so when
you do your trick your arm
fails on it or or hits it and it just
allows you to stay connected to the bike
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when i grew up on the beach in kyama um
australia
the idea of putting the motorcycle on
the water 100
came from my background as a surfer i
used to always be up on the headlands
watching the waves come in
picturing what it'd be like to be able
to jump you know wave to wave
and said to my dad one day how cool
would it be to ride a dirt bike on the
water and be able to jump those waves
and he's like well that's what a jet ski
is
i was like no but a motorcycle and
you know at the time i think it was just
an idea but that's something that i held
held on close and i always wanted to put
my dirt back on the water and that's
i'm stoked that came to life
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i've got three boys they watch what i do
and
inevitably they want to do what i do
i built this dirt double it's an uphill
jump and uh
you know if they go super slow they can
land halfway it doesn't really matter
where they land it's super safe which is
great
but then the next step after that is the
ramp on the left hand side and that's
the first ramp jump that uh cruiser's
hit jagger hasn't hit it yet
but i'm just trying to take him down
that stepping stone road of different
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jumps
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it's a great setup i'm stuck with it
it's cool to be able to have this in the
front yard you know usually most
mornings we ride between nine till
midday neighbours are cool with it it's
kind of at that time of the day where
everyone's up and running around
we keep the dust down we have our fun
wine country loves it a lot of people
pull up here the wine tools sometimes
pull up here and check it out
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it's cool environment
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well thanks for joining me and checking
out my backyard it's been a pleasure to
show you around i hope you liked it and
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