Evel Knievel's Last Jump

[drunkkenartist]

Evel Knievel has made his final
and grandest jump...into the afterlife!

RIP Dude.

Thank you for inspiring me (30+/- years ago)
to jump countless ditches on my bike
using ramps made of scrap lumber and cinder blocks.

Thanks for giving me the courage to ride a sled down an aluminum extention ladder off the house roof.

Thank you for your image being on the lunch box and toy motorcycle that I wish I still had.

Thank for the "Inner Evel Knievel" that later on in life had me pushing my Kawasaki 440 LTD to 110 down one of Eglin's Range Roads, and just inspiring me to own a motorcycle in general.


Thank you for that same "IEK" that snuck out every time I went snow skiing, bungee jumping, rollercoastering, parasailing and eventually skydiving.

Thank you for being one of my first heroes
and a true American Icon.

May your weary broken bones finally get some rest.

DKA



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[peapod1980]

DKA, I think you forgot to thank him for instilling in you a love of jumpsuits.

 

[30A Skunkape]

I hear ya DKA. I had an Evel and Robby Knievel playset when I was a lad, it was the same as the ad you have shown above. I remember one night watching him on live TV jump a tank of sharks. The last time I saw him interviewed he was kind of mad that stuntmen today have access to such light motorbikes while he had to use heavy ones.

 

[Beachbummette]

My brother and I BOTH were huge Evel Knievel fans! We had all the toys.....'cept.....how come we never had the jump suits? I'd have so worn those.

Remember the jump over Snake River Canyon?! That inpired my brother and I to try and jump waaaaaay to many big ravines.

 

[drunkkenartist]

DKA, I think you forgot to thank him for instilling in you a love of jumpsuits.

:funn::funn::funn::funn:Outed AND BUSTED!!!!!!!
good job pod.

That tribute did look a little 'gay' didn't it?

Oh well, what did you expect from me.....?​

Actually, despite the outcome, I think it was the stress of this lawsuit that did him in. Shame on Kanye West.

"Kanye Kills Knievel"
I can see the Enquirer headlines now.....​

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2007-11-27-kanye-knievel_N.htm

 

[drunkkenartist]

I hear ya DKA. I had an Evel and Robby Knievel playset when I was a lad, it was the same as the ad you have shown above. I remember one night watching him on live TV jump a tank of sharks. The last time I saw him interviewed he was kind of mad that stuntmen today have access to such light motorbikes while he had to use heavy ones.

I had forgotten all about the SHARKS!! I remember that now....

My brother and I BOTH were huge Evel Knievel fans! We had all the toys.....'cept.....how come we never had the jump suits? I'd have so worn those. quote]

Your suit of course, would have been pink
with pink rhinestones and sequins.

No, Pod, I didn't have one of THOSE either....:funn:

dka

 

[peapod1980]

:funn::funn::funn::funn:Outed AND BUSTED!!!!!!!
good job pod.

That tribute did look a little 'gay' didn't it?

Oh well, what did you expect from me.....?​

Actually, despite the outcome, I think it was the stress of this lawsuit that did him in. Shame on Kanye West.

^5!
I edited my original response. I thought maybe it was not quite ready for prime time.

 

[Ocean Lover]

Back in the day he was "the man". My brother was the daredevil in the family. He ended up with a few broken bones and even slashed arms/wrists from sliding down a ladder on a peice of sheet metal.
RIP Evel.

 

[Rudyjohn]

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2007-11-27-kanye-knievel_N.htm

Wow, I would never have guessed that was Evil K. :shock:

 

[Ocean Lover]

I prefer to remember him like this.