1st Backflip With An Electric Motorcycle 6 April 2012   Author: Mike Werner   Location: Normandy, France Via: Motorpasion Moto Apparently, during the Paris X-Trial championships held last week, the public got to see the first backflip on an electric motorcycle. Backflips are common in extreme sports, you get to see them in almost every X-Games show, but apparently this the first time it has been accomplished with an electric motorcycle. The whole idea of a backflip rests on a proper weight distribution, which on an electric bike is different. The rider, Christophe Bruand, did the backflip on an Electric Motion trial motorcycle. Here's the video of the flip (narrated in French). Electric Motorcycle Backflip (58 seconds) blog comments powered by Disqus