I had the Evel doll with the motorcycle as a kid in the 70's, also the Evel Helmet for skateboarding. Man, I was obsessed with this guy. RIP.
Evel Rocked - A GENUINE AMERICAN HERO and ICON He lived LIFE the way he wanted to, no politically correct Bullshit. I keep seeing Johnny Cash giving the FINGER and Evel standing right next to him with that FU you can all go straight to hell look.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Damn! We'll be writing a new song for Evel. I wonder if he'll have a stuntmans funeral?
Here's something I wrote honoring Evel a while ago: http://positiveapeindex.blogspot.com/2006/03/you-stay-classy-america.html "Of course, if the subject under discussion is that of heroes dedicated to commiting acts of complete insanity involving internal combustion, lack of concern for life and limb, and white-toothed, white trash showmanship, then you need go no further than the apotheosis of the breed, Evel Knievel. He is the end point of the evolutionary line, the Tyrannosaurus Wrecks that tests the sustainable limits of the ecosystem. After he is gone, only small furry rodents remain."
here are two of my many heros Don Edmunds and Jerry Weeks from when they constructed the original sky cycle
He was an idol to thousands of us kids who grew up in the 60's and 70's. He was a first class showman.RIP
Man, growing up in Texas in the 70's, the only guy cooler than Evil Knievel was Roger Staubach. "They started out watching me bust my ass, and I became part of their lives," Knievel said. "People wanted to associate with a winner, not a loser. They wanted to associate with someone who kept trying to be a winner."
One of my childhood hero's for sure. He's the reason I took the shocks and spring fork of my Orange Crate, it wouldn't stick when it landed worth a damn with all that crap. After that, every piece of wood in sight went to building ramps. When I heard he was going to jump some "canyon", I remember going to our encyclopedias and finding a pic of probably the Grand Canyon, I remember thinking "oh man, he can never make that, he'll die for sure, he really is crazy!." No one can ever say he didn't pack it full. RIP Evel
RIP Evel almost killed myself trying to jump my Taco mini bike after seeing him on Wide World of Sports , he was the PHUCKIN MAN in my book
He was an asshole to a lot of people in his life, but to me growing up, I thought he was truly the king. He is the most influencial figure of my childhood outside of family.
all the people i have met died within the last 7 years, Dimebag Darrell, Johnny Carson, Johnny Cash, Kevin Dubrow, Dale Earnhardt, and Micheal Schuldiner and those are just the ones off the top of my head, it sucks growing up in this generation all the legends are fucking droping like flies
I think each and every one of us, had some sort of bicycle accident trying to be like Evel, back in the day. <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gv3kdMVnu1Q&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gv3kdMVnu1Q&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
What the fuck??? I didnt even hear about that..this should rattle a few pearls in da "pearly gates" when these boys hook up to party!
"Whether I splat against the canyon wall, or just lay down and die as an old man. I'll just be getting somewhere sooner, where you're gonna be someday. And I'll be there, waiting for you." E.K. God Speed old man God Speed
Tough career choice.....Trying to stay alive while the audience came to see you die. I wonder if he would've rather died doing what he loved.....sure came close a couple times. Crazy mofo
died today......a nutter of the 1st order..... he rode bikes and women..and drank a lake of booze....the rest of the time he wasted..
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