Evel Knievel dead at 69

[fryingdutchman]

Looks like "Kaptain Robbie" will have to carry on the legacy of crazy motorcycle stunts.

R.I.P. Evel...you were an exciting part of my youth.

Anyone else have one of these toys growing up?



Evel Knievel Dies at 69
By MITCH STACY, AP
8 minutes ago
CLEARWATER, Fla. —
Evel Knievel, the hard-living motorcycle daredevil whose exploits made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.
Knievel's death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel. He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs.
Knievel had undergone a liver transplant in 1999 after nearly dying of hepatitis C, likely contracted through a blood transfusion after one of his bone-shattering spills.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

I'm pretty surprised he lasted this long, to be honest...

Evil carried ABC's Wide World of Sports in the '70's, especially with the Snake River Canyon jump.... I was sure he was dead when it went down in the canyon....

[ALinChainz]

Agree with both of you guys.

Used the have the entire collection of Evel toys and was GLUED to Wide World whenever he was on.

Had just bought a documentary I didn't have on Evel a couple months back.

He, Ali, and Mark "The Bird" Fidrych were heroes in my youth as well.

Hell yeah VA, seems like he had a liver transplant or something not long ago and was looking real old.

Had him a hottie girlfriend til the end, drove the country in a big motorhome, pulling a traveling museum.

RIP Evel.

[LoungeMachine]

I remember being GLUED to the TV for the Snake River jump.

He was sumthin'.

[LoungeMachine]

Wonder how his Will reads.....

Knowing E, ya gotta figure he's requested to be shot out of a cannon, ala Hunter S. Thompson, or somesuch.

Get his last Guiness Record in under "most cars jumped post-mortem"

He'll go out with a bang, guaranteed.

[ThrillsNSpills]

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Snake River

[diamondD]

Caesar's Palace is the one I'll always remember. What a crazy, tough SOB. Never been anyone like him and never will.

[78/84 guy]

Thanks for the thrills Evil you crazy s.o.b. !!!

[Jim Shetterlini]

A true american spirit! One of my heroes and I will always remenber all of his jumps and his smackdown of the reporter that lied about him. God Bless Ya Evil!

[Jack68]

Yes gents i had the toys and remember him well.Now there is a big slice of americana for you.RIP.

[vh rides again]

the evil kneivel stunt cycle, oh yes i remember it well.

my fondest memory of my stunt cycle was winding that motherfucker up till it was just a hummin and throwing it in this snotty little bitches hair that lived behind my house, that fucker was so wound up in her hair thay had to cut it out, it was holding tight to her scalp.

oh shit i miss the days when you could accost someone and not get thrown in jail.

evil was pretty badass, i remember the wide world of sports on saturday or sunday and evil making the big jumps, i remember seeing him try and jump the fountains at cesars palace too, that was a pretty good wreck if i remember right.

he cheated death quite a few times, and was just the craziest motherfucker ever, he didnt play no games neither, im pretty sure he did some time for fucking someone up.

its too bad hes gone.

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[Nickdfresh]

One last jump Evel, the last jump...

You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Tried to run
Tried to hide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side, yeah

We chased our pleasures here
Dug our treasures there
But can you still recall
The time we cried
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side


Yeah!
C'mon, yeah


Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby
She get
She get
She get
She get high


I found an island in your arms
Country in your eyes
Arms that chain us
Eyes that lie
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through, oww!
Oh, yeah!


Made the scene
Week to week
Day to day
Hour to hour
The gate is straight
Deep and wide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through
Break on through
Break on through
Break on through
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

--Jim Morrison

[LoungeMachine]

They always go in 3's.

This week?

DuBrow
Knievel
Hyde


weird.

[Redballjets88]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
They always go in 3's.

This week?

DuBrow
Knievel
Hyde


weird.

along with Shaun Taylor

[Diamondjimi]

Evil will always be the Elvis Presley of daredevils.

Thanks for the memories...



R.I.P.