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

#OnThisDay 1988: Fresh from finishing last in the Winter Olympics ski jump event, Eddie ‘the Eagle’ Edwards was preparing for the new season in his own unique way. | BBC Archive

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

Things you love to see 🥰👏 Former stuntman Eddie Kidd has been reunited with his leathers after a social media appeal 🤩 #BBCBikes | BBC Sport NI

1978: 18-year-old Eddie Kidd: a rising star in the stuntman world. #OnThisDay 1978: The press was out in force to see the latest daredevil stunt from motorcyclist Eddie Kidd. The teenage rider stepped into Harrison Ford’s shoes as his stunt double filming an epic jump across a railway line for the 1979 film Hanover Street. Kidd would go on to become a world-famous stunt rider until a serious accident in 1996 left him with life changing brain injuries. In 2012 he was awarded an OBE for his charit