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    RIP Evel - A motorcycling legend!

    http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...295241,00.html

    My 1st motorbike hero when I was a kid.

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    Bugger....Evel wasn't a hero when I was a kid,he was a hero when I was out riding bikes.Evel didn't jump some lightweight Japanese MX bike with long travel suspension - he mostly jumped XR750 Harleys,big bikes with short travel suspension.This guy was a kickarse hero in every sense of the word,and it's a great loss to the motorcycling world.Fly high Evel.....

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    He was still alive??

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    I still use some of his quotes.
    Thanks Evel. Legend.

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    i heard they were going to shoot his coffin over niagra falls

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    Wow! He must be the first name your average joe public thinks of when you say motorcycles.

    Or at least, your average joe public of a certain age bracket

    RIP indeed. He was quite the legend.
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    Wow he was truly awesome.
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    I loved him when I was wee- even though girls weren't supposed to. Or girls under the age of 12, anyway.

    Always wanted one of those tacky little dolls they did at the time... never got one, though. *still sulking*

    Here's hoping he's doing the perfect endless jump through the sky now...
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    Evil Knevil dies RIP

    It's been coming for years, but you just don't expect it. Superman just doesn't die, right?" Rundel said.

    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.

    "I think he lived 20 years longer than most people would have" after so many injuries, said his son Kelly Knievel, 47. "I think he willed himself into an extra five or six years."
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    It's on the news at 6.00pm.

    Isn't his son Chris Knieval ? Or Captain Knieval ?

    I remember Evil saying once that he is not the greatest stunt motorcyclist in the world, he is the father of....
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    Yip the man is a legend RIP
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    What a legend. RIP.
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    Evel Knievel ... as a 8yr old that name ment yank dumbarse, but hell he was cool to watch... the dumb shit he did on a Hardley Dangerous was just nuts. Only a old fart like me would smile when hearing that name.

    Anyhow... after all them broken bones after all them courts of blood... he finely kicked the bucket today, liver packed a sad or something... Evel Knievel ... your the man.
    cheers DD
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deano View Post
    It's on the news at 6.00pm.

    Isn't his son Chris Knieval ? Or Captain Knieval ?

    I remember Evil saying once that he is not the greatest stunt motorcyclist in the world, he is the father of....
    I know there is Robbie, watched his show when it was on tv. They had a love hate relationship.

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    Read his book as a 10-12 yr old liked the stars & stripes painted everywhere.

    Was a modern day(at the time)superman to most of my mates,even the neighbour who had a honda xl70 then after jumping most things on it,his folks realised he was good,they bought him an old tm125? then went to an rm125,wicked machines back in the 70's as kids.
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