AN Australian stunt rider has surfed the giant waves of Tahiti on his motorbike in a crazy feat that took two years to perfect.

    Robbie “Maddo” Maddison, 34, released a video titled “Pipe Dream” which shows him riding his bike on the pristine waters of Teahupo’o in the South Pacific.

    The KTM 250 SX dirt bike was modified with specially built skis that allowed him to ride on the ocean.

    In the video, Maddison can be seen riding past other surfers, paddleboarders and canoers while dressed in full motorcross gear.

    Maddison, from Kiama on the south coast of New South Wales, is no stranger to adrenaline, having worked as a stunt double for Daniel Craig in “Skyfall.”

    He has also jumped across the Corinth Canal in Greece and has done a backflip while jumping off the Tower Bridge in London, but admitted he was terrified something would go wrong.

    “I had a sickening feeling that this might be the one that kills me,” Maddison said, according to MTV.

    Maddison said he has dreamed of pulling off the surfing stunt for years, after he got the idea watching his wife Amy Sanders wakeboarding.

    “I fantasized about putting skis on a bike and riding on water. It was a stupid vision at the time, but I kept toying with it, playing with designs and concepts, and eventually it became a reality,” he told Surfer Magazine.

    He added that he has been a keen surfer since he was 8 years old and his understanding of waves was key to pulling off the daring stunt.

    “Honestly, the whole way I imagined I needed to ride the wave on my bike was wrong, but after watching some footage, with my knowledge of surfing I realized I had to adjust to be up on the face of the wave — and I’m comfortable being there because I spent the majority of my life dropping in on the face of waves,” he said.

    “If I hadn’t been a surfer at heart, I couldn’t have pulled it off.”

    The video was produced by Maddison’s sponsor, DC Shoes.

    DC Shoes executive Jeff Taylor said it was one of the most ambitious projects the company has ever tried to produce.

    “Robbie is equally as visionary as he is talented on a dirt bike and we’re happy to have enabled him to truly defy convention,” Taylor said.

    (SD-Agencies)