End of an era...RIP Evel Knievel

[Smiling Assassin27]

Daredevil Evel Knievel dies at 69

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Associated Press

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Evel Knievel, the hard-living motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon 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 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.

Immortalized in the Washington's Smithsonian Institution as "America's Legendary Daredevil," Knievel was best known for a failed 1974 attempt to jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket-powered cycle and a spectacular crash at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. He suffered nearly 40 broken bones before he retired in 1980.

Although he dropped off the pop culture radar in the '80s, Knievel always had fans and enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in recent years. In later years he still made a good living selling his autographs and endorsing products. Thousands came to Butte, Mont., every year as his legend was celebrated during the "Evel Knievel Days" festival.

"They started out watching me bust my ass, and I became part of their lives," Knievel said. "People wanted to associate with a winner, not a loser. They wanted to associate with someone who kept trying to be a winner."

His death came just two days after it was announced that he and rapper Kanye West had settled a federal lawsuit over the use of Knievel's trademarked image in a popular West music video.

[Bronx33]

I grew up watchin evel i spent hours pretending to be him i made all the little kids on the block lay on the ground so i could jump them (man that was fun).

RIP Evel

[PLOWHORSE]

I had the toy cycle that you pulled the cord and it did jumps. He was huge to us kids in the 70s. He lived longer than anyone thought he would...including himself.

[jsco70]

Nothing was more prized than my Evel Kneivel lunch box and thermos.

[Bronx33]

I had the motorcycle you put in that base/action figure you could wind up and get it going 500 miles mph .

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/7181/playingmantisqr3.jpg

[COBronco 69]

Ive got an autographed pic of him from when I was a kid....met him a couple times, very nice to his fans! RIP Evel!

[Bronx33]

Who in there right mind would jump a Harley Davidson XR-750 lol

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/7719/953221225pxharleycj1.jpg

approximately 300 pounds

[Bronx33]

Nothing was more prized than my Evel Kneivel lunch box and thermos.

http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/5245/lunchboxre3.jpg

[bronco militia]

j/c bronx what the hell was that?

bwhahahahahahahahhahaha

[PLOWHORSE]

I think we've been hijacked again...

[bronco militia]

lmao...some people don't like it when you hot link their pics.

that's f'n brutal


bwahahahahaha

[broncocalijohn]

bronx is trying to get banned. That has got to go. What the F is ..... damn get rid of that. You are a sicko.

[broncocalijohn]

I had the toy cycle that you pulled the cord and it did jumps. He was huge to us kids in the 70s. He lived longer than anyone thought he would...including himself.


I loved that toy. Evil was X Games before they had a name for it. One bad A$$ guy that will always live on. He was a standout among the nutsos.
BTW: Bronx, get that off my screen.

[COBronco 69]

http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/5245/lunchboxre3.jpg

WOW I bout lost my lunch there, been a while since I saw that pic! Strange pic of a lunchbox!

[Bronx33]

j/c bronx what the hell was that?

bwhahahahahahahahhahaha


huh?

[Bronx33]

what????????????????

[Bronx33]

bronx is trying to get banned. That has got to go. What the F is ..... damn get rid of that. You are a sicko.


what the he11 are you talking about..

just posting pics from here

http://weirdscifi.ratiosemper.com/evelknievel/toys.html

[CBF1]

Growing up we used to watch all of his jumps on TV. A true American original. RIP Evil.

[bronco militia]

what the he11 are you talking about..

just posting pics from here

http://weirdscifi.ratiosemper.com/evelknievel/toys.html

your pic was linked to some chick shooting stuff out of her ass

[broncocalijohn]

he knows it. How can u do that to Evil?

[Bronx33]

Growing up we used to watch all of his jumps on TV. A true American original. RIP Evil.


When god made evels mold Evel broke it...LOL

[Bronx33]

your pic was linked to some chick shooting stuff out of her ass



LMAO! i used imageshack that's odd.

[COBronco 69]

what the he11 are you talking about..

just posting pics from here

http://weirdscifi.ratiosemper.com/evelknievel/toys.html

Do a search for [deleted] if you want to see what they put in place of your picture...


Edited by Old Dude because no one should be subjected to that picture.

[Los Broncos]

Dam, RIP man.

[Old Dude]

Beware what you link to.

RIP, Evel.

Another American Icon passes on.

[Bronx33]

Do a search for tubgirl if you want to see what they put in place of your picture...


Militias description was enough.

[Rohirrim]

It was probably all the busted bones that finally did him in. I guess he got Hep C from one of his numerous transfusions that led to him getting a liver transplant and then various other problems. The dude had major league guts, you've got to give him that. Either that, or a death wish. RIP Evel. Thanks for the show.
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/A/alive/images/evel.jpg

[53Broncos]

I watched Evel jump at a dragstrip called Lion's in Long Beach, CA
RIP

[gunns]

You can jump that canyon now Evel.

[broncosteven]

One of my favorite memory's of living in Denver was begging my parents to let me watch the Snake River Canyon jump. When it was over I was morning the loss of that hour or so of my life. I learned a life lesson that day.

All the kids in my neighborhood had the EK Motorcycle toy, I was happier with my Kung fu action and fuzzy haired GI-Joe with the radioactive satellite tracking truck and the Training tower that served no real purpose.

He was something though, Best wishes to his family.

[Needa Pass Rush]

I liked this link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxgm5uM64hc&feature=related

So long, Evel.

[Hogan11]

I can barely remember Evel K, though that's no excuse to deny him....he's someone I always associate with the early to mid 1970's, kinda like B.T.O. & Grand Funk Railroad.

Mojo Nixon called him a great American hero once....that's good enough for me. R.I.P.

[Bronx33]

http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/on/evel-knievel-113007-lg.jpg



Evel quotes:

You can fall many times in life, but you're never a failure as long as you try to get up.

Loving someone doesn't mean that you can love her for six days and then beat the crap out of her on the seventh.

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

This country has become a nation of the government, by the government, and for the government. Our politicians are destroying us. We need a revolt!

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.

Heaven is a place you can go and drink a lot of draft beer and it don't make you fat. You can cheat on your wife and she don't get mad. You get a beautiful female chauffeur with nice, hard tits -- real ones. There are motorcycle jumps you never miss. You don't need a tee time.

Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.

The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime!

I don't believe in hell. I don't believe in gods or Jesus Christ or sacred cows. I don't believe in that big, fat-assed Buddha. Show me one piece of Noah's ark. Show me one piece of the tablets that Moses was supposed to have brought down from the mountain. People need a crutch. They need to make up stories. I don't want to do that.

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world. You can be the guy with the smallest penis. Whatever it is, enjoy it. It don't last forever.

One day you're a hero, the next day you're gone.

People say they take responsibility for their own actions all the time, but that don't mean they really do.

I think that all of these so-called born-again Christians should ask their preachers why they don't hand out organ-donor cards. If you donated a kidney or a heart or an eye or whatever to your fellow man to keep him alive, you couldn't be closer to God than that.

You can't forbid children to do things that are available to them at every turn. God told Eve, "Don't give the apple to Adam," and look what happened. It's in our nature to want the things we see.

If God ever gives this world an enema, he'll stick the tube in the Lincoln Tunnel and he'll flush everybody in New York City clear across the Atlantic. And that would just be a start.

We must tax the churches. Freedom of religion is bull**** when it's tax-free.

You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

I've done everything in the world I've ever wanted to do except kill somebody. There are a couple of guys I know who need shooting. They represent the rectums of humanity.

If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.

[Bronx33]

Anybody remember when evel left the hospital in a cast to beat the shyt out of shelly saltman with a baseball bat because he wrote a bunch of BS about him?

[worm]

Toys were so much cooler back then..

I was more of a Joey Dunlop and Mike Hailwood fan.....but you were the real deal as well.

RIP

[Bronco LB 59]

A legend that all these X-Gamer punks owe a debt of graitude to. He paid a heavy price for all those daring stunts he did. I don't think Evel enjoyed his elder years because suffered everyday through pain and health woes. I hope he's finally found peace again.

[Bronx33]

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[Spider]

bronx is trying to get banned. That has got to go. What the F is ..... damn get rid of that. You are a sicko.

It wasnt Bronx fault ...........

[Spider]

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LOL I had one of those as a kid

[Orange_Beard]

What a crazy dude. Those were pretty much street bies that he was doing those jumps on.

[Bronx33]

What a crazy dude. Those were pretty much street bies that he was doing those jumps on.


Ya a 300lbs XR-750 and not a very agile bike.

[Bronx33]

His blood flows on...

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[ohiobronco2]

Militias description was enough.

ROFL!

I laughed for a good 5 minutes at that picture. Without a doubt, the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.

[Arkie]

Wow. He was a staple of my childhood. I guess it was bound to happen. I just thought it would be at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

[Cito Pelon]

I grew up watchin evel i spent hours pretending to be him i made all the little kids on the block lay on the ground so i could jump them (man that was fun).

RIP Evel

Dude was a fearless idiot with flair. What that says about you, I don't know. :wiggle: Dude certainly did have flair.

[Cito Pelon]

Kevin Costner made a living off of looking like Evel Knievel.

[Cito Pelon]

What a crazy dude. Those were pretty much street bies that he was doing those jumps on.

Yup, that dude was one carazy dude. There is no comparison to that guy. Hey, so anybody want to try to top that guy? What would you have to do to top that guy? I saw a guy plant two sticks of dynamite under a desk chair before a Steeler game one time, then light it off, but he only did that one more time.

Other than that, I can't think of more of a crazy showman than Evel Knievel.

[Bronx33]

Dude was a fearless idiot with flair. What that says about you, I don't know. :wiggle: Dude certainly did have flair.


I ended up riding motorcycles alot me and my brother used to race the pikes peak hill climb every year (during the winter) nothing like going 80mph on the edge of a ice cliff. :thumbsup:

[Cito Pelon]

I ended up riding motorcycles alot me and my brother used to race the pikes peak hill climb every year (during the winter) nothing like going 80mph on the edge of a ice cliff. :thumbsup:

Good for you on the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, you crazy ****ing nut. I challeged some friends to do that with me, they wouldn't bite, never had the nuts to do it on my own. Maybe I need some new friends. Or maybe not. Good for you, I believe the road to Pikes Peak is completely paved as of last summer, so you have a good memory of the old days when the road was dirt and gravel.

[broncocalijohn]

Bronx, it seems you didnt know what the pixs were but couldnt you see what you were posting after you hit "post"? To all those that missed it, one sick display of ... damn i have no words for that display.

[TomServo]

they just did a cheap seats (rerun) on him yesterday
looks like he truly regreted all his bad decisions in his later life.
if you didnt grow up in the era when he carried an entire "Wide World of Sports " all by himself you cant comprehend the times.
evel knievel and billy jack anyone?

[Bronx33]

Bronx, it seems you didnt know what the pixs were but couldnt you see what you were posting after you hit "post"? To all those that missed it, one sick display of ... damn i have no words for that display.


No or i would have yanked em right away (i still haven't seen them) a link must have been bleeding through or something.

[Bronx33]

they just did a cheap seats (rerun) on him yesterday
looks like he truly regreted all his bad decisions in his later life.
if you didnt grow up in the era when he carried an entire "Wide World of Sports " all by himself you cant comprehend the times.
evel knievel and billy jack anyone?


Yep and i remember billy jack kickin dudes in the face (you remember the song?) Ode to billy jack or something like that as for evel making mistakes he was young and stupid just like we all were he was just a bit more crazy about it.