Posted on 08/01/2004 10:44:28 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
he did Ceasars Palace already as I recall.
I think youre right. Cool that TNT would air it live..
Jumps like this are so 1974. It takes a lot of guts and skill to pull off stunts like this, I admit, but it seems you have to be lacking some common sense, too.
I'm more amazed by the stunts that Jackie Chan routinely pulls off in his many films. Bet Jackie banks more, too.
I wonder what the insurance premiums are for something like this..
Robbie Knievel jumped over the Caesars Palace Fountains in 1989. I got it on dvd here some place.
He broke the hell outta his hand.
I imagine that he is waivered out of a lot of insurance issues.
I'll bet!
He's already done Caesars and the Grand Canyon.
I just saw the replay of this on TNT. Pretty cool. All the build-up before was cheesy and my wife and kids thought it was stupid, until he actually did the jump. Strange enough, after telling me "How can you watch this?" they didn't want to change the channel.
He went down a starting ramp to get up speed in a short distance, up the takeoff ramp, over the aircraft, down the landing ramp, and then slid into hay bales at the end of the carrier to avoid going into the harbor. He used almost every foot of the length of the carrier. He hurt his wrist when he slid into the barrels but the announcers said the slide was planned. If he stay on the bike, he would have been catapaulted over the bales and down 70 feet into New York Harbor.
Robbies daddy, Evel, is a childhood hero of mine. I followed every jump and recreated them in my yard with MY bike and the old crank up Evel motorcycle. I can probably thank Evel for being knocked out cold at least twice that I can remember, but man did those stars and stripes leathers make my little boy mind wonder. If Evel would have had the bike technology we have today, there's no telling what he would have tried.
Even Evel knew the Snake River jump wasn't going to work.
It was basically a scam.
I liked the time Evel jumped over a moving train on live tv once. That was cool.
Kerry will be asking "did we seek U.N. approval for this pro-war stunt?"
"I followed every jump and recreated them in my yard with MY bike "
I bet the Snake River jump was fun!
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