Evel Knievel Ceasar's Palace Jump

[RacerX]

Pretty self explanatory, huh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt7J_KyKt_I&NR

For the benefit of all you young guys that have never seen this footage.

Dude was a criminal and kindofa jerk, and sure crashed a lot, but he sure did have brass ones!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evel_Knievel

[Snoogans]

An old Triumph twin with drum brakes and street suspension. Dude was a nutter - cool as fuck, but a nutter...

[VitaminG]

isn't that Caesar's Palace?

[JRE]

Gary Well's crash was even worse.........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_L9Ii-gOkw

[jjw]

i used to have that toy bike of his around about the late 70's,scared the shit out of my parents cats at the time..lol.he was a mad bastard

[~K~]

I have the newer toy bike, I have the original scramble van that Evel signed for me several years ago also .. If you have seen Evel over the last few years the dude is in rough shape .. not a life if ya ask me


Another nut was a guy by the name of Doug Danger who was from NH if you do a search for him there is footage of a crash when he was practicing for a world record jump at Hudson speedway which is minutes from my home ...

[Rsmacker]

Evel Knievel jumped over my house!



Well, I say jumped, more kinda flew, after I wellied him over the eaves to piss my little brother off. He was occupying some prime territory in the garden and Action Man was about to launch into a re-run of the Ardennes Offensive, so the motorcylce madman had to go.

Evel Knievel sure had some things to answer for. If any of us kids ended up broken, bleeding and bruised after coming off our pushbikes, you know who got the blame - Evel K-fucking-nievel. Which wasn't really unfair because we were usually building ramps to perform death-defying leaps out of plywood etc. Oh the memories! Oh the injuries!!
I often wonder if my friend Paul C's pods ever did descend after he stoved them in on the crossbar of his Raleigh Grifter. I can still hear the resultant ear-piercing scream which only dogs could hear most of, in my nightmares. Thank you Mr Knievel, you were shit!!

Soon enough though Eddie Kidd came along, a homegrown hero and stunt rider. In no time at all he had stolen Knievel's crown as king of the pointless stunts which invariably went seriously wrong. Britain had her very own serial motorbike crasher, Knievel's reign was over!

[442w30]

Evel was the coolest, I had the lunchbox, couldn't afford the cycle.
We used to cruise a naked barbie on the back of Evel's zip-bike.

Oh the memories...
My first concussion was off a 3ft long, 10 inch high plywood ramp. I was prolly doing 10MPH from 1/2 block away, came of the top with the front wheel below the back one - end over end. It was a Sears Spyder in Kick Ass baby blue.- banana seat, no chain guard.

Peeled all my skin off arms, knees, chin.
I had to walk my broken bike home 1/2 mile. Slept on the couch for two days, couldn't move. I guess my mom should've taken me to the Dr. ?

Helmets, we didn't need no stinking helmets!!!

[jjw]

yeahh Eddie Kidd kissed the tarmac brutaly at a big biker bash-poor bstard became a vegetable after that-they must know that one day they will fuck it big time?I guess the buzz from the crowd is a high they cant do without

[Soap]

Can anybody locate robbie knievel's successful jump of ceasar's palace?
I'd like to see that.
I know he successfully jumped a few of the one's his dad failed.

[scotty]

Mike Mezger sure made it look easy. Of course I don't think he could have done this on a Triumph.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2HtctfrDKy4

[RacerX]

isn't that Caesar's Palace?

Yup, I copied & pasted from the youtube page. Damn stupid youtubers!

[StukaJU87]

I remember Evel in his hey day. I used to watch his shows with my father every time they were on tv. It was always an event.

I remember this one time when we were on vacation. It had to be around the mid 70's. We were watching tv in the hotel room and some copycat was on and tried some super long jump. For the life of me I can't remember his name, but I believe he died that day. The crash was awful.

[horns666]

I always thought he was a stupid, hillbilly asshole myself.

[Soap]

Wow!
First time I've seen this Mike dude, and his jump at ceasar's was very sweet indeed. The flip mid air just stellar. Yes he did make it look easy. Very cool.