As my man Chris just wrote in an email, “There is a little less evil in the world today.”
US daredevil Evel Knievel dies
Legendary US daredevil Evel Knievel has died at the age of 69, his granddaughter has said.Knievel had suffered ill-health, including diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis – an incurable lung condition – for several years.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Raise a pint.
November 30th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
I’m off to find a suitable quality beverage to salute the fallen hero with.
November 30th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
I’ll raise one for him and I’ll continue to fall off my bike in his honor!
November 30th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
budweiser would do.
November 30th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
I will get good and drunk and run into a tree tonight, in his honor.
November 30th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
A God like figure from my childhood…. gone.
November 30th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
RIP Evil. Gone but not forgotten
November 30th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
A childhood hero is gone. Kneivil was a man not afraid to take risks, and lay it on the line, and who sometimes paid the price when things went wrong…
May he have a pleasant time in the Summerlands.
Opus
November 30th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Oh man. Evil was my mini God growing up. I remember that wind up toy motorcycle from the early 70′s I had so much fun with.
RIP Evil. You were one wild, crazy and entertaining bastard.
I’m going to go have a beer or 12.
November 30th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
I had the motorcycle toy as a kid.. watched it crash.. live on man live on…
November 30th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
you can cheat death every single time, except the last one. props to that guy. may he never be forgotten.
November 30th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Oh man.
Someone buy this for me please.
I won’t insult your mother any more if you do.
November 30th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
i am going to twin falls idaho on monday for work, and will pour out some beer at the jump site where he was the only man brave enough to attempt jumping a rocket bike over the snake river canyon. then i will drink the beer.
November 30th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
he was a memory from childhood. i’m jumping over my house tonight
cheers Evel
November 30th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
…rest in peace, evel…
…but for that to happen, robby knievel should take the old man up to the snake river, stuff ‘im in the rocketcycle & fire that ol’ son of a gun across the canyon…bury him wherever it lands…
…what a man…what a character…
…what a bigger than life legend…
November 30th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
i’m proud of my job and all, but i’ve always known that bullfighters, stuntmen, test pilots, and the other folks who really rail it… well they’re a cut above.
cheers Evel
November 30th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Thats the set I had DrunkenBiker..
November 30th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
START AT PT 1 AND KEEP GOING…SO FAR 38 PTS, BUT THE GUY IS STILL ADDING THEM
VERY IMPORTANT
November 30th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdrRA5eHZrk
SORRY HERES THELINK
November 30th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Yo, I had the same toy motorcycle deal when I was a kid. Damn.
December 1st, 2007 at 9:27 am
Man, you know you’re on the downslope when your heroes start stepping onto to the ice floe. Definitely larger than life, one of my best recollections of the Evel legend was what he did after a conviction for assault (didn’t like the tone of a book about him and offered constructive criticism vis a vis the “Louisville Slugger” method). Here’s the quote from NY Times:
“Mr. Knievel was forced to spend the entire six months in prison after a judge learned that Mr. Knievel, under a work-release program, was commuting from prison to his job in a chauffeur-driven Stutz convertible and providing other inmates with limousine transportation to their work-release jobs.” What a great and imaginative “FU” to the authorities, that act speaks volumes to me, what a man.
Article (excellent) here:
http://tinyurl.com/yrm7l7