Staging a show fit for the king of jumps. Top Gear Series Director Jon Richards explains how the stunt show celebrating legendary daredevil Eddie Kidd OBE's career was put together. Featuring international stunt rider Terry Grant, freestyle stunt rider Lee Bowers and newcomer to the motorcycle jump scene, Paddy McGuinness. Watch the full film in the first episode of the new series of Top Gear. Available on BBC iPlayer now. | Top Gear

On This Day 1976 📺 Eddie Kidd - Picketts Lock Jump 🏍️💨. At 16, Eddie Kidd was Britain’s youngest ever motor cycling world record holder. The amazing Cockney youngster and a 500cc CCM flew 108 feet to clear thirteen double decker buses at Picketts Lock Sports Centre in North London. American stunt rider Evel Knievel had crashed on landing when attempting to jump thirteen single deckers at Wembley Stadium the previous year. Nobody else has attempted to jump double deckers. Eddie’s fantastic ach

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Paddy McGuinness meets his childhood hero, stunt rider Eddie Kidd OBE. | BBC One

In the 1970’s and 80’s one of the world’s biggest names in motorcycling was Eddie Kidd. The stuntman suffered serious brain damage after an accident during a jump in 1996. Recently, his family has been hunting for memorabilia and we discovered one piece belonging Ryan Farquhar. | BBC Newsline