RIP Evil Knievel

[JQ]

I read his bio a few years back what a cool book, he came from nothing and catapulted to a world wide name by entertaining all of us. A true legend before his time, now we have X - Games.

[jtower1969]

Growing up in the 70's he was a GOD to me. I had all of the action figures and toys...My friends and I jumped our bikes over everything. I toyed with the idea of taking the BMX bike down off the wall in the Garage and setting up a jump last night in his honor.

[rat tuned]

he has to be one of the biggest icons of his era. we were so caught up in his jumps us little dorks had a blast jumping everything in our neighborhood. we had a 10-12' gully. it must have dropped about 6-7'. we must have busted 4-5 bikes trying to jump that place off our home made ramps. the sight of a bunch of huffy's with sissy bars,shift handles right before our banana seats would probably make me wet myself laughing today. finally one of the older guys made the jump in his schwin. the neighborhood celebrated. this is truly a sad day. rip and thanx for the good times (evil)

[olredalert]

------One cool guy!!! Used to see Evel out at the bars in Ft.Liquordale. He was one hard livin guy. If you think he only punished his body on the jumps, think again! Must have been self medicating with all those shots, LOL.........Bill S

[agtw31]

a local roofing company hired him to do ads for them recently,he looked rough in the ad.

[njsteve]

He was The Man!.

I learned all I know about being cool from Evel:

Here's me in 1970 imitating him...




And here's my bike today...



At least the bike still looks the same.


God speed Evel

[Mr70]

Ha!...Had that same Chopper in 1970,only mine was black.
And we had that 66 FORD Country squire station wagon too in white w/red interior..

Steve,wanna come over after school?

[njsteve]

The black ones are super rare. My brother had one with the dual shifter 5 speed and the tall sissy bar. The dummy sold it at a yard sale years later for $10.

Maybe at the next reunion everyone can bring their original bikes and we can have a real 1/4 mile race - complete with jumps and wheelies.

[Dog427435]

[b] Better have one of these on hand - some of us aren't as agile as we once were!!

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[Mr70]

Couldn't pay me enough to attempt this or any of THESE.