“Oops, my mistake,” Robbie thought to himself as he rode his dirt bike into the middle of the ocean. “I thought the road continued past Winaulua Peak. Maybe I should turn around now …”

“Oops, my mistake,” Robbie thought to himself as he rode his dirt bike into the middle of the ocean. “I thought the road continued past Winaulua Peak. Maybe I should turn around now …”

Those really weren’t his words. We made that up. But they could  have been, if in fact riding a dirt bike into the middle of the ocean was an accident — but the recent installment into the archive of viral videos was no accident. “Pipe Dream,” starring pro-rider and stunt bike pioneer Robbie Maddison, is a new DC shoes video to promote stuff to buy.

Carried-out with custom “skit” rudders on his bike and a specially designed paddle-wheel on the back, the stunt may not seem all that impressive on paper (given the added tech to boost the probability of success), but it is, you cynic — In Tahiti, at Teahupo’o, where the clip was filmed, is known as one of the most dangerous surf spots in the world and per Rolling Stone translates roughly to “the pile of heads.” Even with the modified bike (and fierce music added to the video), the stunt is a cinematic gem.

– photo courtesy GrindTV