would Evel....

dazzlindino
Edited Date/Time 9/13/2014 9:29am
would Evel Knievel have ever worn a neck brace...
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mgifracing 9/11/2014 7:00am
9/11/2014 7:00am
No, He got more glamour from the broken bones.Evil
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jndmx 9/11/2014 7:26am
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dazzlindino wrote:
would Evel Knievel have ever worn a neck brace...
He wore a neck brace a bunch of times.

He wore one after Caesars Palace, he wore one after the Cow Palace crash, he wore one after Wembley.
dazzlindino 9/11/2014 7:30am
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dazzlindino wrote:
would Evel Knievel have ever worn a neck brace...
jndmx wrote:
He wore a neck brace a bunch of times. He wore one after Caesars Palace, he wore one after the Cow Palace crash, he wore one...
He wore a neck brace a bunch of times.

He wore one after Caesars Palace, he wore one after the Cow Palace crash, he wore one after Wembley.
HaHa....good one....were they Leatts....
Harry Callahan 9/11/2014 9:11am
9/11/2014 9:11am
That guy hucked booters in a disco suit on a 500lb V-twin Harley, and beat the shit out of reporters with a cane.

I'd say nothing it out of the real of possibility regarding that guy.

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MotoMalyDad 9/11/2014 9:27am
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Bad ass or dumb ass ?
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Harry Callahan wrote:
That guy hucked booters in a disco suit on a 500lb V-twin Harley, and beat the shit out of reporters with a cane. I'd say nothing...
That guy hucked booters in a disco suit on a 500lb V-twin Harley, and beat the shit out of reporters with a cane.

I'd say nothing it out of the real of possibility regarding that guy.
Baseball bat, but yea Evel was a bonafide badass!
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dsmith 9/11/2014 9:34am
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no.......doing bad things to your body back then were not even considered....you should of seen all the people smoking in the hospital when I was born....
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His style was "hold'er open and hope for the best". I think he was about 60%
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088kawi 9/11/2014 6:32pm
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Evel will always be the all American bad ass. I bet he shit Marines on a regular basis.
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jim lehey 9/11/2014 6:51pm
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Harry Callahan wrote:
That guy hucked booters in a disco suit on a 500lb V-twin Harley, and beat the shit out of reporters with a cane. I'd say nothing...
That guy hucked booters in a disco suit on a 500lb V-twin Harley, and beat the shit out of reporters with a cane.

I'd say nothing it out of the real of possibility regarding that guy.
Cygnus wrote:
Baseball bat, but yea Evel was a bonafide badass!
Why don't you get a life Rick? Why don't ya go to community college like Julian here. Hey, I got a good idea. You could teach, livin' in a car and growin' dope 101.
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Nighttrain 9/11/2014 7:11pm
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That is a cool project, #991. Well done.
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That is a cool project, #991. Well done.
Thanks.

It's taken way to long though. I keep getting side tracked. I'm going to start again with a 500AF.
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wreckitrandy 9/11/2014 7:30pm
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They have one of his jump bikes at the Wheels Through Time Museum in Maggie Valley, NC. EK was a bad man. KTM 50 forks are bigger around than on his bike.
lostboy819 9/12/2014 7:46am
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MotoMalyDad wrote:
Bad ass or dumb ass ?
He climbed into the sky cycle knowing he was going to die but did it anyway because he said he was going to do it. So I think badass is more like it.

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jeffro503 9/12/2014 8:11am
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#991........brother , tha is one cool looking project right there! Awesome job on that!
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rcannon 9/12/2014 8:29am
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You guys have no idea how BIG Evil was when us 50 year olds were little kids....The motorcycle was a great toy. I dropped mine of of Glen Canyon dam, on accident...Yes, I cried.



Non motorcycle peopel knew him. He was known more, worldwide, than Muhammid Ali (Cassius Clay) or the president of the United States. If he did things bad in his personal life, it was all kept quiet, The baseball bat incident was too big to hush up.

Saturday Morning Cartoons had Evil Knievel toy commercials. I think this one is foreign, but you get the idea...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVR7dm2Fw9E

The bat attack thing...everyone blamed the guy who got attacked, not Evil, and truthfully, the guy deserved it.

I remember watching the commercial and thinking it was all bs because there was no way a motorcycle could do a 360...LOL

The world was different then, and the press turned their heads, whenever possible. Prior to the baseball incident, the guy was placed out there as a role model. Very anti-drug.....alcohol was never talked about. The guy would lay there in a stretcher and take time to tell kids to not do drugs as they wheeled him to the ambulance.
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He was doing things no one else was on a motorcycle and promoted the heck out of it.
He was legit!
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1bigsave 9/12/2014 9:15am
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My parents took me to see the Ek movie. My mom said that night when I was sleeping I was making engine noise and twisting the throttle. 40 years later here I am. Thanks Evil.
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WSR 9/12/2014 9:29am
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I sat on his 1970 jump bike once. It had almost no suspension and generally felt like a boat anchor.

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gharmon 9/12/2014 10:37am
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wreckitrandy wrote:
They have one of his jump bikes at the Wheels Through Time Museum in Maggie Valley, NC. EK was a bad man. KTM 50 forks are...
They have one of his jump bikes at the Wheels Through Time Museum in Maggie Valley, NC. EK was a bad man. KTM 50 forks are bigger around than on his bike.
Always wanted to go in there. We went there twice and it was always closed in the winter. Hell, other than the mountain that was all MV had to offer to do.
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Hman144 9/13/2014 8:59am
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Stumbled across this today.



Never saw the test shots, or even knew about them, before.

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