****s. i bet his wallet says "bad mother****er" on it. really, when you know what he has been through, whats shocking is that it didnt happen sooner.
Ahhhhh Damm it!!!! that ****s... it's crazy that disease took him and not jumping the grand canyon.. R.I.P evel evel<
They have a new Evel song called "Evel's Revenge" and it opens with a sample of him that say's " If I had the bike these kids have today I would of Jumped over the Moon"
Second that.....wish I still had my Evel Knievel motorcycle and launcher. I remember watching every jump that was on tv.
I remember the canyon jump from when I was a kid, got the toy for Christmas and the whole thing. He was so ****in' cool when I was 5 LOL!
No f'ing way. I'm crushed. I know Evel thinks I'm a total retard for this, but I'm in the middle of having a full custom Evel Knievel outfit made. Not leather. Too hot. Flared pants, belt, cape and all. Super mega buzzkill. Viva Knievel.
Damn.. The real deal. My ol' man said it best when I just called him with the news.. "Most great men leave there mark on the world... He left his on the floor of many arena's" He was a True Badd ***. We would have no "Metal Mulisha" if it were not for him. Joshua Shaw.
One of the last TRUE stunt-daredevil guys in my lifetime. Said he was going to do something and went and did it even if it would result in injury. I remember on ABC the coverage of jumping the Snake River. r.i.p. RCK. KNUX!
Dammit. Score another for November. Real Hero. On the bright side, he's made out of so many peices of metal, he can probably be recycled...meaning He will live FOREVER!
Capped a fella with a baseball bat for writing an unauthorized bio painting him in a bad light. got sued and said to the press: "it was worth every penny-I have no prob doing it again-." gotta love that crazy m'fr! RIP
I am going to where my helmet that is painted like his at the bar tonight and raise a gl***. This really ****s. Still have action figure that was on the motorcycle that you pull the plastic strip that looks like a zip tie and watch him gooooooooo.
He was the last relic of the way America used to be, before the lawyers and pussies took over. A holy fool, watched over by angels who drank Old Style and smoked Lucky Strikes. A crazy, fearless, larger-than-life crackpot, last in a long line of same, heir to Davy Crockett, Wild Bill Hickok, P.T. Barnum, Horatio Nelson Jackson, "Cannonball" Baker, and every other kook who refused to listen to reason. The world is a smaller place without him. It made me think of Hunter Thompson's description of Oscar Acosta: "...one of God's own prototypes--a high-powered mutant of some kind who was never even considered for m*** production. He was too weird to live and too rare to die..."
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