Today, we the people, have lost a person that everyone admired and tried to emulate out in the front yard every summer day. We all owned some sort of bmx bike and would build jumps on the sidewalk and see how far we could fly and mark it with a rock. Then try again with more speed and more speed. And we did this all without helmets.Evel Knievel has passed away today at the ripe ol' age of 69. It is amazing that even lived that long.
Some of you might have had the Evel stunt motorcycle. You could pose Evel on the bike, put it in the launcher and then spin the crank and at some speed it would release and you would make him crash into cans, walls that were on fire, jump over the pool in the backyard....almost anything that the real Evel would try.
We would watch him on ABC's Wide World of Sports trying to jump busses, sharks, 50 cars, the fountains at Ceasers Palace. The greatest stunt ever attempted was jumping the Snake River in ID in the SkyCycle. His skycycle had so much horse power that it pulled the bolts out of the back that was holding the parachute. The chute opened before he even hit the apex of the jump and he almost drowned when the cycle landed in the river. He was not afraid to fail.
Even when he was a little frail, he was still pimping the speed of his new ride
So the next time that you come up against something that looks dangerous or a line that might be faster but could be sketchy....take a chance and see what happens. The worst thing that could happen is you fall down.
damn...the world is less Evel tonight. That is a bad thing. Hopefully he is already jumping some firey pits on Lucier's Ducati.
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ReplyDeleteOne could do without that pic of the evil one on that glorified golf cart. Couldn't they have at least built him a semi custom rig with some stars and stripes on it? Christ. That hurts.
ReplyDeleteInstead one should remember Evil doing his best to "kick it" in the sky cycle over snake river canyon! So long EK.