On Monday morning on 13 July 2009, the Tower Bridge in London is shut to traffic. At 2:55 am, the bridge deck partially opens, creating two ramps 23 metres apart. On the north side of the bridge, 27-year-old Australian daredevil, Robbie Maddison, revs the engine on his Yamaha 250 motorbike. “I am fighting the nerves back,” he says, as though in battle against a tough opponent.
Maddison is thinking about the steel rails he could hit. He is weighing up the impact of falling 60 metres into the River Thames, a collision that would probably kill him. “The scariest thing about this jump,” he adds, “is the fact that the roadway is up and when I am mid-air, I am going to get a visual of the Thames River and the steel
