Steve McQueen Great Escape Jump re-enacted http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/videos/article5718912.ece Dale
I know that they were trying to recreate it as close to original as possible, but I think a helmet would have been the right thing to wear.
As a kid I pretended to do that jump on my bicycle countless times. I'm sure I never went more then a couple feet off the ground but in my mind I was well over 6 ft. with the German's chasing me!!