Channing Tatum as Evel Knievel is a movie project that's been knocking around for years, and it looks like he's finally getting properly prepared for all the gnarly stunts he'll be handling in the biopic.

Chan recently spent some time in the desert learning to trick it up on a motorbike, and he proudly shared the results on Instagram Monday (Sept. 21).

In the first pic, Tatum showed off his first jump completion and admitted to being "addicted" to the thrill already.

He followed it up with a vid of him doubling down on the feat and wrote that he's still "got a lot to learn" but that he had "so much fun" and finds his new favorite hobby "completely terrifying in a good way."

Tatum has been attached to star in the film about Knievel, a legendary daredevil whom Channing admires for having "walked the walk," since 2012, but he's kept it in his sights all the while as his career has escalated to his own sort of pinnacle.

He told USA Today last year that the pic -- which is based on the 2008 book "Life of Evel" by Stuart Barker -- will focus on the earliest moments of Evel's bone-crushing career.

"The story we're focusing on was how he got to that first jump. The early stuff. That's the most interesting part," Channing Tatum explained. "[Evel Knievel] was on the cutting edge of that kind of spectacle where you could watch someone die on television. How did he go about putting his entire family on the line for this success?"

It looks like Chan's getting some first-hand experience in that whole art is danger concept himself now, then, huh?

It's worth noting, though, that even though this was his first go at two-wheel acrobatics, he's no novice at dirt biking when both wheels remained firmly planted on solid ground.

PS: Rumor has it, director Darren Arnofsky might be bringing his super dour sports story style a la "The Wrestler" and "Black Swan" to the movie, so this could very well be the most intense movie of Channing's career.