Mosha Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 He passed away yesterday Nov 30th, I'm sure he would have prefered it to happen on a motorbike. Apparently the Beeb have recorded an interview with him and Top Gear's Richard Hammond. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iWWuZ0w...5qe-AwD8T8EDT00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ping Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 I knew his cousin - Awful Cknawful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goshawk Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 A great guy.. R.I.P (get that in b4 the mods close this) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldcrush Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 (edited) I bought the plastic windup bike when I was a kid, was great fun. Those classic toys that made you have fun everytime without a screen! RIP Evil Knievel. Edited December 1, 2007 by coldcrush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slackula Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Who would have thought that he'd have reached that ripe old age before kicking the bucket? By all accounts he was a right a*shole in real life, but his stunts were cool and he was a natural born showman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrtoad Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 I bought the plastic windup bike when I was a kid, was great fun. Those classic toys that made you have fun everytime without a screen! RIP Evil Knievel. That was a cool toy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathbyDurian Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 (edited) He should have toured Thailand. Jumping 50 buffaloes on a Honda Wave would have really kick-started his career again. (There, now it's Thai-related) Edited December 1, 2007 by DeathbyDurian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goshawk Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 I bought the plastic windup bike when I was a kid, was great fun. Those classic toys that made you have fun everytime without a screen! RIP Evil Knievel. i had the original Stunt & Strato Cycles.. wish i still had 'em, they're highly collectable (and probably just tripled in value again) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbusman Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 He was a real con man of the old school, PT Barnum style. Got us for a few thousand dollars, but it was fun the whole time. Had a trailer full of his artwork, which he was trying to sell at outrageous prices. I always wondered if he sold any, there is at least a trailer full of it floating around somewhere. One of those guys, no real schooling, living by his wits and living hard. I will say this about him, he lived life to its fullest. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSquigle Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 you should be proud of that, shafted by evil kneivel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsetBkk Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Evil Knievel is planning his most challenging stunt yet. He's going to jump 15 double decker buses. Apparently the guys driving his hearse aren't best pleased. (Not my joke. Honest!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetjock Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 A pretty good epitaph would be one of his earlier quotes about his life : "There were a couple of women I should have screwed that I didn't, there were a couple of ramps I wish I had hit a bit faster. But apart from that, I have had a good life." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chloe82 Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 (edited) My brother called me and said he was mourning the death of Evel Knievel by jumping over 3 bagettes and a tin of soup. He was a real fan though. On a serious note, i actualy met his son Robbie a few years ago when he was in Paris for some show. I got to hang out with him for a while and he was a realy funny guy, i got the idea that he did not get on with his father much though. Edited December 1, 2007 by Chloe82 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiakaha Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 He passed away yesterday Nov 30th, I'm sure he would have prefered it to happen on a motorbike. Apparently the Beeb have recorded an interview with him and Top Gear's Richard Hammond.http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iWWuZ0w...5qe-AwD8T8EDT00 RIP. I love people who live by their own terms. The whole mortgage, 9 to 5 job, 2.5 kids, save some money in your IRA so you can spend it when you are old and arthritic kind of lifestyle is just a death sentence. We need more guys like Evil. Live this life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierra01 Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 I saw him at the old Wembley way way back, in the late 70's probably. A real showman, really knew how to work the crowd. He crashed on his jump, once he was helped up he anounced yet another retirement! As an aside.....a support act (an old boy actually) dived from quite a height, well over a double decker bus height, into a foot of water. It took him ages to pluck up the courage to do it, the crowd were getting really pi$$ed of with him, but he did it and walked away from the pool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chicowoodduck Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 He was a real con man of the old school, PT Barnum style. Got us for a few thousand dollars, but it was fun the whole time. Had a trailer full of his artwork, which he was trying to sell at outrageous prices. I always wondered if he sold any, there is at least a trailer full of it floating around somewhere. One of those guys, no real schooling, living by his wits and living hard. I will say this about him, he lived life to its fullest. RIP. He got his start trying to jump a few trucks and a box of rattlesnakes and as luck would have it, he landed in the box of snakes! Of course that got the crowd all wound up and Evil too! The rest, as they say, is history! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasticpig Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 RIP. One of the real men of this world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaiboxer Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 (edited) All I remember about the guy from childhood was something about him jumping a section of the Grand Canyon. I read the news on Yahoo the other day which told some of his history, although I can't remember if he actually did make it over the Grand Canyon. Aside from breaking 40 or more bones, he had some serious illnesses as well which finally did him in. Maybe it's genetic...some folks can endure stuff that would kill most people before the age of 20 let alone 69! Evil was good at what he did, but like many of his kind, his personal life was terrible...which to me cancels out all the glory he received for his stunts. Edited December 2, 2007 by Thaiboxer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmart Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 He was an irresponsible degenerate that set terrible examples to children. That man was inidrectly responsible for over 753,351 children with broken bones and death worldwide from people emulating his silly, self-promoting stuntage. He has no idea of the residual pain and cost of his silly examples to The Children, nor did he care, yet was more than happy to capitalize on the marketing of lunchboxes and action figures to everyone I guess that I feel this way because I too was a victim of this carnage from when I tried to jump 4 trash cans on a bicycle with no seat on the seat post. That was just last week and I still suffer greatly.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rice_King Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 He was an irresponsible degenerate that set terrible examples to children. That man was inidrectly responsible for over 753,351 children with broken bones and death worldwide from people emulating his silly, self-promoting stuntage. I guess that I feel this way because I too was a victim of this carnage from when I tried to jump 4 trash cans on a bicycle with no seat on the seat post. That was just last week and I still suffer greatly.. They call that "natural selection" kmart. R.I.P. Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goshawk Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 He was an irresponsible degenerate that set terrible examples to children. get stuffed.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmart Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 I bought the plastic windup bike when I was a kid, was great fun. Those classic toys that made you have fun everytime without a screen! RIP Evil Knievel. That was a cool toy. It was indeed, mine was obtained second hand and never seemed to work properly though. The later, rather more sedate version worked ok though. If a little slowish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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