And I was going to try it this weekend, no point now. LOL

Way to Go Caleb!! Man with Cast Iron Balls!!!

 

I'm surprised you beat Travis Pistrana. He has a tv show dedicated to backfliping anything he can. Good work!

 

big balls!

 

Was awesome, I was there and got to see it in person!!

 

Dont find it as impressive as a quad backflip. Anyone could do that with that RZR..

 

Really???

 

Yea he is a madman on a quad.

 

God-Allmightie it must be fun playing on someone elses money!!!!:icon_rockwoot:

 

I think the quad backflip looks more impressive. And more deadly if you land upside down, like the first attempt on the RZR.

It looks like they made a custom ramp to kick up the front end. Seems like cheating to me...

 

kinda like cheating???? are you mental? would it have been "fair" if he unbuckled mid air jumped out onto the rear bumper to transfer his weight? or where you expecting his cast iron balls to transfer the weight for him. he was supposed to do a backflip with a UTV just off a metal ramp... slow your role, this man is a monster

 

Setting up the takeoff ramp is just like the need for setting up the landing ramp... It's not cheating... It's smart...

It looks like he had the brakes on when he landed...
...the front tire doesn't spin at all...
I wonder if that was to control his rotation..

 

thats so SICK !!!!!!!!

 

At 2:08, in the first video, as he tried to take off, I noticed only one back tire was spinning. I suspect there was some damage to the rear driveline. Oh, great video by the way, hope his sponsors fix his ride.

 

front end was widened and the rear was left stock.... ramp was steaper for the front tires... that is kinda cheating... all four tires should leave the same ramp to be fair with all other back flips... just say'n

 

Okay let's walk through this...
On a bike, sled or a quad you can use your body to shift the weight and cause the vehicle to rotate, correct?

How on earth are we supposed to do this on a 1000 lbs vehicle?

 

I dont know ask him..

 

That's redonkulis!

 

199 Travis Pastrana(spelling) has also done it in a monster truck...

 

I belive it was a failed attempt?

 

Lots of guys back flipping monster trucks. Power inertia and balls !

 

Look guys I give this guy credit, I am not doing it in my RZR... What he did takes huge balls of steel!!! But there are guys doing it in trucks, monster trucks, and ATVs WITHOUT a special ramp, or making the front wheels run on a different, steeper ramp than the back wheels. I still think he "cheated" just say'n.

 

I'm all open to your ideas on how this would be possible without a special ramp or suspension..

In fact if you can come up with a sound idea on how this would be possible otherwise, we will build the setup, then cover your airfare so you can come ride passenger into the foam pit to see if it works.

We had thought Caleb's head was big enough for him to yank it back at the right moment to get it into the rotation, but we ended up having to go with plan B

 

Props to Caleb, that was sweet!

 

Did anyone ever take a rzr off a ramp with just the angle of the front tires ramps. I think it would still rotate.

 

No, it would just pop up sky high. You have to have something to "pop" it into the rotation quickly, without throwing it off course.

 

They probably were trying to get the springs to rebound and push the nose out.

 

Springs are still going to rebound.

 

True, but by having the ramps just under the wheels and whip up aggressively at the last moment, its almost like forcing the nose to dive harder than normal, allowing the chassis to, MAYBE, push deeper and compressing the springs a tad more....just my thoughts on why they did that. I was thinking the same thing as well when I saw the Vid.

 

For those interested in how all this worked here is video from foampit testing.

 

sweet vids

 

Lets all think about this a little. YES the ramp was different for the front tires, steeper as it was. In keeping with thinking, HOW CAN ONE PULL BACK IN A RZR like they would on a quad or bike. Now with that thought in mind lets get back to how kick butt the back flip in a rzr is. No matter what you are ridding, be it a quad, dirt bike, rzr, tricycle, or unicycle it is not an easy feat to complete. So it was not "cheating" that the ramp was made the way it was, it was nesecity to make it that way. keep Kicking butt and taking names Caleb Moore.

 

Thank you I agree 100%. To say this was cheating would be like saying with an ATV or dirtbike backflip the rider cannot yank all of his weight back as he leaves the ramp - how else are you supposed to get into the rotation? Do people not understand basic physics? You cannot just hit a fixed ramp with a 1500 lb vehicle and hope a magical gust of wind catches your front end just right.

For those who want to use the monster truck example - we do not have 2000 hp and 1200 ft lb of torque to work with. Also, if you want to count that as a true backflip jump - where you land in the same spot you took off from, then many guys here on the board have already backflipped their RZR

I'll also admit, at first glance I really hated the method we used to achieve the backflip. Mostly because the different track widths make the RZR look goofy as hell. We had a few other designs that used same track width front and rear - but they all involved a complicated ramp with moving parts. When Caleb first came to us he had one main request - the ramp cannot have any moving parts, or anything that could potentially fail in a show. He needed a simple setup that we could adjust, and once we got it dialed he could repeat it over and over in shows.

Jeremy