The F5 Bivouac (rallye raid news) and W2RC - World cross country rally championship

Nice stunts by Coma. Proves fear of heights is not a subject for pro Rally riders.
Soon parachutes wil be part of the regulatory kit package.

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Still here, EI, exercising the ol' F5 finger regularly in various ways.

Not too sure about the photoshop. Coma's bike was in Dubai at the time, Ronnie Renner was too. A mate of ours (yes a sandy helmet) took him into the desert to play around. Will check if Coma's bike also came out for a spin.

the bigger photos look nice and don't look like bad adobe edits
so I will disagree with Jenny, if they were shopped the person who did it has some skills
I had no idea Coma could do a nice can can like that:eek1

seriously jumping big I had no doubt Coma could do
but a freestyle move like that was not expected at all


eventhough it could be Renner in Marc's gear...but I don't know if it would fit.


very cool

There's some video of Coma, Faria, Renner and Verburgh here:

http://www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite...-2011-in-Dubai---Rallye-meets-021242994207366


I'm sure Coma could play around on a Motocross bike but FMX on the rally bike is not happening anytime soon.

This is an even bigger pile of wank than the original...

Seriously people - these are laughable...


Photo ©Mitter J. for KTM



Photo ©Mitter J. for KTM

April the 1st was over two weeks ago...

Jx

lol at least they took the time to erase round the spokes

I agree with Jenny here. This must be a very creative photo-montage - or a full-fledged FMX stand-in with Coma apparel doing the stunts.

Yeah, or a midget on a pit-bike... (who is also a vampire as he casts no shadow!)

Jx

no can't be a vampire the shadows are too perfect
maybe a midget in an alpinestars cloak

Looks fine to me...

According to this article, the Marc Coma jump is for real

http://www.easterndirt.com/?p=8585

So KTM Racing want to bolster Marc Comas reputation as mr. SuperMan. I don't doubt for a second he's capable of flying a bike reasonably high. However, I'd very much like to see some real video footage of him doing that stunt. It's just SO out of his character to perform that kinda flying in public.

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http://www.ktmpress.com/news.100087.0.html?nodeID=113135&cHash=dd14096c74


and


http://www.ktmimages.com/browse/images/1875

KTM Racing obviously have some sense of humour and use well-known PR tricks.

FMX4ever meets KTM Racing:
https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150174501660665&oid=21573544999&comments

Goes to show there has been interaction between FMX and KTM Racing.
Given the camera resources available - at KTM Racing will etc. - it's a bit strange they don't show some actual footage of Coma doing those stunts.

To me it simply looks like they either manipulated the photo's or dressed up a pro FMX rider in Coma apparel and did the shooting on a 450 Rally with appropriately little fuel in the tanks..

In these days of well-known film-tricks a sceptical and critical audience won't be easily fooled.

Reminds me of the time I passed Jonah in the Dakar...



And Annie was waiting for me to give her a ride at Lac Rose...



...and then I woke up and had to go to work.

Heheee! Spot on, Hayduke!

Here's the same set I saw being passed around in regular email. I think I have to agree and call "Chop!" but Coma probaly can huck it like that if he wants to I would guess...

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