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  • SBJ
    So Fucking Fabulous
    • Apr 2003
    • 11387

    #1

    Any Evel Knievel Fans?

    If so check out this guy doing 3 jumps dressed like Evel right now. He landed the 1st one but 2 more to go.
    https://www.history.com/specials/evel-live
    During “Evel Live,” American professional motorsports icon and Nitro Circus ringleader Travis Pastrana will honor legendary daredevil Evel Knievel by attempting three of his most dangerous feats in Las Vegas, Nevada, all while riding a modern-day recreation inspired by the motorcycle Knievel used. These include: breaking Knievel’s record jump over 52 cars, another record-breaking jump over 16 full size buses, and aiming to make history as the first person to successfully jump the Caesar’s Palace fountain on a bike similar to the one Knievel used 50 years ago – an attempt that ended with a crash that left him grasping for life. If Pastrana rides away from all three, he will be the only person to successfully beat two of Knievel’s distance records and land a jump over the fountain on a v-twin motorcycle. All of this will happen in the span of just three hours, and HISTORY will capture every exhilarating, nerve-wracking moment live.
  • Rochard
    Jägermeister Test Pilot
    • Dec 2001
    • 75733

    #2
    Was not really a fan as a kid but I knew who he was... I think I was just a bit too young to get into him.
    Herschel Savage
    Brooklyn, NY

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    • SBJ
      So Fucking Fabulous
      • Apr 2003
      • 11387

      #3
      Originally posted by Rochard
      Was not really a fan as a kid but I knew who he was... I think I was just a bit too young to get into him.
      I was born in 70 and I had Evel toys and I remember watching some of his jumps as a kid.

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      • SBJ
        So Fucking Fabulous
        • Apr 2003
        • 11387

        #4
        Damn, He just nailed the 2nd jump of 16 greyhound busses!

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        • baddog
          So Fucking Banned
          • Apr 2001
          • 107089

          #5
          My family doctor was close enough friends that his son owned those white leathers you know him by; my personal opinion is FUCK HIM

          https://bizarrela.com/2016/03/evel-k...-assault-1977/

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          • crockett
            in a van by the river
            • May 2003
            • 76818

            #6
            Originally posted by baddog
            My family doctor was close enough friends that his son owned those white leathers you know him by; my personal opinion is FUCK HIM

            https://bizarrela.com/2016/03/evel-k...-assault-1977/
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            • Sly
              Let's do some business!
              • Sep 2004
              • 31377

              #7
              Pastrana is a legend in his own right.

              Would be cool to see him land the 3rd.
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              • SBJ
                So Fucking Fabulous
                • Apr 2003
                • 11387

                #8
                Originally posted by Sly
                Pastrana is a legend in his own right.

                Would be cool to see him land the 3rd.
                yup, the way he nailed 1st one and adjusted in the air in the 2nd one makes me think he will make this 3rd.. About to go down in a few mins.

                When I was a kid I had this toy. Man, I wish I still had it and my Star Wars toys.

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                • SBJ
                  So Fucking Fabulous
                  • Apr 2003
                  • 11387

                  #9
                  Well, that was impressive!

                  To be able to nail all 3 jumps and do what no one could ever do with the last one. At real-speed, I thought he was wrecking as he lands but it was such a violent landing his head almost hits the handlebars.

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                  • Bladewire
                    StraightBro
                    • Aug 2003
                    • 56228

                    #10
                    Evel Knievel, the original king of the bulge





                    Skype: CallTomNow

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                    • Boozer
                      So Fucking Banned
                      • Feb 2005
                      • 3134

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Rochard
                      Was not really a fan as a kid but I knew who he was... I think I was just a bit too young to get into him.
                      You are full of shit as usual. You are older than I am, and I grew up on Knievel toys.

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                      • baddog
                        So Fucking Banned
                        • Apr 2001
                        • 107089

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Boozer
                        You are full of shit as usual. You are older than I am, and I grew up on Knievel toys.
                        I knew something was wrong with that. My last g/f's ex-husband was a huge fan, as were his friends and they are about 5 years younger than Rochead.

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                        • CurrentlySober
                          Too lazy to wipe my ass
                          • Aug 2002
                          • 38957

                          #13
                          I can remember the very last line of the 1971 movie about him. It was :

                          We have very little choice about our life. The only thing really left to us is a choice about our death. And mine will be — glorious.
                          Spoken as he launched his bike off the grand canyon, and the viewpoint of the camera was as his would have been. Then the movie went black and it ended.

                          That had a real effect on me as a kid - Stayed with me for many years. Powerful words...

                          SOURCE


                          👁️ 👍️ 💩

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                          • Bladewire
                            StraightBro
                            • Aug 2003
                            • 56228

                            #14
                            Originally posted by baddog
                            I knew something was wrong with that. My last g/f's ex-husband was a huge fan, as were his friends and they are about 5 years younger than Rochead.
                            You need to stop posting drunk Fagdog you're trying to divert every good thread here into how much you hate someone in that thread. Go-to rehab nobody cares here who you hate when you're drunk or otherwise.

                            This thread is about Evel Knievel Fans


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                            • SBJ
                              So Fucking Fabulous
                              • Apr 2003
                              • 11387

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Bladewire
                              You need to stop posting drunk Fagdog you're trying to divert every good thread here into how much you hate someone in that thread. Go-to rehab nobody cares here who you hate when you're drunk or otherwise.

                              This thread is about Evel Knievel Fans
                              actually, this was about Travis Pastrana's 3 jumps that Evel did or tried to do all at once. I do agree though that no one asked if they thought Evel was a saint or not. This was the 60-70's and it was a different time.

                              Yahoo commenters were quick to point out that his son Robie made the fountain jump in 89' but looking at that on youtube Robie used a dirt bike. Dirt bikes were made for those jumps but Evel and Pastrana used heavy street bikes.

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                              • JFK
                                FUBAR the ORIGINATOR
                                • Jan 2002
                                • 67373

                                #16
                                saw a movie about him a few months ago, warts and all........

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