I taught one of his kids back when I lived in Butte,,, I could tell ya lots of crazy stories about that guy and some of the jumps I witnessed when he was just Bobby Knievel trying to make a name for himself. A tough SOB
RIP Bobby I'm glad I got to meet him and shake his hand. Oh... whooda thunk that Kanye West would be one of the last people he sees on earth.
Ha!!! No shit!!!!! One BMX bike, one milk crate, a couple of two by fours and a few brave friends lying real still! And I was a hero just like Evil! Damn This sucks! I think I might go get my kids BMXer out.....
"[SIZE=-1]I can't wait to meet God, and ask why he didn't make me go faster on some of those jumps, why he put me through all this pain. He knows I'm not evil"[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1] -EVEL KNIEVEL RIP [/SIZE]
A sad day indeed. Still have a really good scar and lots of memories from imitating him on my bicycle. I call dibbs on his liver.
"This time, Man I hope I do it right, Just like the days of my Evel Knievel Bike..." Suplecs-Evel Knievel
R.I.P. EVEL, you were the real deal. I too tried to be just like him when I was a kid, 6 tires stacked side by side, sheet of plywood ,100ft. of down hillspeed,ended up just like him also; broken collarbone, mild concusion,2dislocated fingers and a busted stingray... but to the other dorks in the neighborhood I was EVEL KNIEVEL THAT DAY Helmet,I didn't need no stinking helmet.
That's sad. He was one mother fucker that lived his life the way he wanted to, to the absolute fullest. Crazy as all hell
"People never saw anything like what I do," said Evel Knievel. "And they'll never see it again." A true hero of mine.
Amen to that! The other day somebody gave me a big shitty look when I was riding around in the convertible with the kids not in car seats. (hell, it doesn't have seatbelts in the backseat what good are the seats?). Got some crap on another occasion from someone because I didn't get bike helmets for them. I never had a bike helmet. When I was a kid we jumped everything we could. We would steal sheets of plywood from construction sites and build big ramps and do nothing but try to kill ourselves all day long. Lots of road rash but I don't remember anyone ever getting permanantly injured. If things keep going the way they are now, we'll all be driving around in those fat cushioned Rosie O'Donnell cars from the ugly custom thread. Now that I think about this, it was all inspired by Evel Knievel. I sure do miss the old days when playground equipment was made out of steel bars and men who did dangerous things were to be imitated RIP...
I remember growing up in the 70's stacking lumber on top of cinder blocks makin' my BMX bike do Evel things. Now that my hairline is receding, I'm beginning to see the legacy from those days - scars that is.
When I was a kid I had Evel toys and 6 Million Dollar Man action figures. As far as I was concerned they were both superheroes, took a while to understand that Evel was not special effects and imaginary, but THE REAL DEAL! Godspeed Mr. Knievel
Damn that is such a true statement. The world has become so pussified it's ridiculous. Evel making jumps on some relic Harley with little suspension was a site to see, he had much better chances of crashing and getting seriously hurt than he did actually making the jump. Now I watch the Metal Mulisha, and Mike Metzger and all those guys (don't get me wrong, they got some serious balls), and you hardly ever expect them to crash. I watched Metzger do a back flip over the fountain at Ceasers ( I know that's spelled wrong), and when I first started watching I was psyched. But then it dawned on me that there was little chance that he wouldn't make it, and when he pulled it off I wasn't suprised at all.
Dang it, dang it, dang it.......I might just jump my ol lady tonight in memory of evel, but seriously that sucks, I got the same "tore my ass up on my bmx after watchin' that man on T.V. "stories that a lot of you do.Sad to see the man go!! They should have named a brand of band-aids after him....or did they?
I may have been there too.........I have been jumped by a bike, ( usually the idiot at the end of the row) and I have jumped people on a bike. First BMX bikes, and later motorcycles. Watching Evel as a little kid must have rubbed off on me, because up until a few years ago, the highest I'd ever been off the ground happened on a motorcycle...............
saw him on a field trip in grade school in 70 something ? they had the wheelie car , bike`s , then jumped a bunch of busses like the one`s we got there in. with KC and the sunshine band ! it was pretty dam"GROOVY" god I hurt my self jumping stuff on my bikes. RIP Evel ! can`t believe you made it to 69. what a life.
As soon as I watched 'Viva Knievel' in 1977 I rode my red schwinn bicycle as fast as I could down my driveway right toward a piece of plywood leaned against a red wagon. Ate shit over the handle bars and ripped my chin off. I still have the scars 30 years later all because of Evel. What a bad ass!!! R.I.P. EVEL!! You'll be remembered everytime I look in a mirror.
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