Daredevil flips bike over helicopter in AustraliaAn American daredevil backflipped a dirt bike over a hovering 40-metre helicopter in front of Sydney's iconic Harbour Bridge Harbour Bridge or Harbor Bridge may refer to:
Sports events characterized by high speed or high risk. Such sports include aggressive inline skating, wakeboarding, street luge, skateboarding, and freestyle bicycle events (wherein tricks such as back flips are performed on a bicycle). . Travis Pastrana, 26, comfortably cleared the revolving chopper blades by about four metres but the 14-time X Games X Games Sports medicine The official Olympics of 'extreme sports' sponsored by ESPN, held annually during the summer. See Extreme sports. medallist said it was a closer call than he would have liked. "That was a little outside of the box. I didn't know what to expect with the wash and the wind, there was a little bit of turbulence up there I wouldn't recommend it to anyone," Pastrana told national newswire AAP AAP - Association of American Publishers . "The wind affects the bike more than the rider as the bike can take a mind of its own up there and if you lose focus then you can land short." Pastrana's stunt was aimed at promoting the MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. extreme sports series Nitro Circus, which will be filming in all of Australia's state capital cities in May and June 2010. 
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