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I went to Colorado last week for a little dual sporting and watching the National Motocross at Thunder Valley. On the way home I saw a billboard that said "Evel Knievel Museum" in Topeka Kansas. I had to see it! I goggled the location info and found it. It was one of the highlights of that trip! They have a bike you "ride" with virtual goggles and you do a recreation the jump in England. It was awesome! I'll share a few photos, but if you ever get the chance GO!
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I been through Topeka three times and had no idea about the museum. Its a must stop next trip.
Not sure what sport I'd be involved in if it were not for Evel.
Live on History.
Hodges is going for 2 world records.
1- Attempt to jump over more than 24 beverage trucks to best Evel Knievel’s 1971 attempt and Robbie Knievel’s 2003 record.
2- Attempt to jump farther than anyone ever has on a motorcycle, a distance that was set in 2011 at 379 feet, 9 inches.
Vicki Golden is also going to attempt to break a world record.
1- First women to attempt to break the firewall record, riding at high speed through a series of flaming wooden boards. The current record was set in 2006.
From the AMA Museum in Ohio.
Pit Row
Again, I idolized the guy, hell, in some ways I still do. But to gloss over his transgressions is to be a bit in denial.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/3146595/FBI-Evel-Knievel…
How many of us jumped our friends and allowed them to jump over us? Milk crates or wood blocks and 2x10s made Evel like jumps for challenging ourselves. The dude was arguably THE most famous person in the world during the Seventies. Yup, huge influence in the off road explosion. That fact that we're here discussing him forty years later tell us all we need to know about how we feel about him as a culture.
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