![]() “In the run up and the rehearsals, because he was timing it to perfection, a couple of times he would just lay the back wheel on the top of the wall, and just set the bike there and then hop it off the wall onto the ground and then go. So to do that jump obviously at 50, yeah, it was quite breathtaking.”Įdmundson not only did the jump, he sort of topped it off during rehearsals. ![]() He’s known to his friends as ‘Fast Eddie.’ That jump was done on his 50th birthday. “He’s five-time world enduro bike champion back in the day (1989-90, 1993-94, and 1996). ![]() “His name is Paul Edmondson,” said Layton. Only it wasn’t Daniel Craig on the bike, of course. ![]() That was a real Triumph Scrambler and that was a real jump. As he comes around a corner, Bond encounters a narrow street filled with parishioners exiting church, so he aims left, rockets up a long stone staircase and launches over the stone wall at the top. The bike is barreling down a cobblestone street in the real-life stone village of Matera in Southern Italy. The huge leap done ostensibly by Bond riding a Triumph Scrambler as he escapes the pack of Jaguar XF-driving henchmen out to get him. Yes, the motorcycle jump, let’s start with that one.
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