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Maddison Backflips London’s Tower Bridge Photo Gallery

Robbie Maddison: 'I have been thinking about this jump for years. Over the last few months we’ve taken a really close look at each area of Tower Bridge. This time we were only on it for a few minutes, so everything had to be exactly right first time – we only had one chance to do it.'

Freestyle motocross star Robbie Maddison took London by surprise as he performed a spectacular backflip over Tower Bridge in the British capital.

The 27-year-old Australian nearly one hundred feet over the Thames.

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Robbie Maddison performing a backflip across the Thames River.

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Robbie Maddison took to the air at 2.55am on July 13th, 2009.

The early hours of Monday morning saw Maddison become the first rider in history to take on Tower Bridge on a motorbike.

Madison held his landing in front of the south tower of one of the World’s most famous sights.

With an approach speed of approximately 40 mph, Maddison took off from the north side of the bridge, performed a no-handed backflip,

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Robbie Maddison performing a backflip over London's Tower Bridge.

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Robbie Maddison: The whole experience was awesome. Since the jumps in Las Vegas I’ve been set on doing something special here in London so the Red Bull team and I have been secretly scoping out Tower Bridge for months. We had a matter of minutes on the bridge and had to time everything to the second, there were so many factors to get right, but we pulled it off. People say I’m crazy, but I just want to push the boundaries of my sport and my body to the limit and I love taking on these huge challenges. It was an incredible feeling to fly between the two towers and over the Thames.'