the team was formed in by three ex army motor cycle display team riders tony robin and alan within a few weeks the team started building ramps and preparing motor cycles at tony's workshop in catford s e london new riders were trained for the first show which was at mallory park race track in leicestershire early in preparations with george and elstree airport north london were made for robin smudger winter smith to do a jump involving ford escort vans this along with a full team stunt display took place on may th the jump was carried out successfully later that the team appeared on the itv network's saturday banana show hosted by bill oddie in which they performed stunts live on tv the team were then called upon to train michael crawford for an episode of his tv series some mothers' do 'ave 'em this episode was titled the dispatch ride tony taught michael some motor cycle tricks in which michael performed very successfully tony also acted as a stunt coordinator while filming the show in in team members worked on a film silver dream racer the star of this film was david essex who was a very well known pop star of this time this year also saw two new members john golly goddard and frank welch who were both training to jump with cars in january the team along with tina roberts' auto angels worked together for not the nine o'clock news which was a bbc tv programme both teams had a tremendous amount of fun whilst filming for the show tina now known as firebird international now travels and includes pythons and singing with a band in her act in may the team were performing in brockley south london this was where john golly goddard performed his first spectacular jump he made a jump over people laid down side by side later in the year on july th at the chester racecourse john golly goddard jumped successfully over double decker buses clearing a distance of ft during the winter of tony was busy working on a kawasaki z for a world record for men on one motor cycle once the bike was prepared the team and many friends went for the first practice before the attempt was carried out many modifications were made once ready the team performed the event at the santa pod raceway in bedfordshire the attempt was successful and placed the team into the guinness book of world records john golly goddard was also preparing his next big jump this time over trucks this successful jump took place on june th at trentham gardens staffordshire the team took part in the game for a laugh show hosted by jeremy beedle amongst others where the team's stunts were shown john golly goddard also successfully rode through walls of fire for this programme in tony met nikki nikki and her son james at the time they both became actively involved with the team nikki acting as a commentator and james began riding motor cycles and learning tricks on his pw lizzette daniel and sue rees were female members of the team in the team gained world records chris spin simpson set a new world record for walls of fire also lee french jumped over shopping trolleys at the sussex county showground ardingly setting another new world record team members vertical vince and chris simpson started forming slow wheelies vertical vince is probably the country's top rider performing wheelies from tony started to prepare a suzuki jeep for wheel driving after practicing for several weeks it was ready to perform in early also other suzuki jeeps were prepared for the team for formation driving this made the team unique as it was the only team performing this type of show the next jeep to be built was the wheelie jeep in in the endo jeep was built and this was driven by tony for a challenge in the itv programme you bet in tony received a call from an agent with an unusual request for a motor cycle rider to promote a film by th century fox called waking ned what made the request unusual was that they required a rider to to ride around oxford street trafalgar square and soho promoting the film wearing nothing but a crash helmet and underpants this was rather a chilly experience on a mid september morning and this also received some very strange looks from people now the team performs shows per year up and down the country tony and the team are busy with new ideas for the show brandon bailey tony's son just years old already drives a suzuki jeep in the show along with tricks on a motor cycle and a quad daniel buss the teams jump man has recently jumped suzuki jeeps at a show at th