Legendary motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel died Friday, according to evelknievel.com

CNN.com ^ | NOV 30 2007 | CNN

[Tulsa Ramjet]

breaking.

[advertising guy]

stories will fall now about how quirky this guy was...........way out there..he sure ain’t welcome in Montana.....he never paid one debt............but what a set of brass this man had

[ConservaTexan]

I loved that toy! My knuckles, however, felt differently. Evel was truly one of a kind. RIP Evel.

[redrunner]

All of a sudden, I just believed in Jesus Christ. I did, I believed in him!

I guess there is no need for him to Jump the pearly gates... The gates have been opened for him... Great Post...

[Tulsa Ramjet]

“OMG I remember that toy”

But in all honesty, that toy sucked. You would jack that launcher twenty thousand times, hit the release, and then the motorcycle would travel about a foot and then hit the show trailer. Man it was bogus.

[numberonepal]

RIP you big STUD!

[redrunner]

[TankerKC]

Awful Kenawful can’t be far behind.

[napscoordinator]

In December 2006, Knievel sued rapper Kanye West for trademark infringement in West’s video for Touch the Sky.

I am glad that was taken care of. Those two have been through hell and back. Of course RIP for Evel.

[MrLee]

Didn’t he have a son who tried to follow in his “foot-steps”?

[Mr. Mojo]

33 years ago. ...and I remember getting that SI issue as if it were ...well, it does seem like a while.

[TMSuchman]

That’s what bottlerockets are for! ;>)

[Hoffer Rand]

The fact that there’s no obvious connection is proof of the conspiracy.

[Bear_Slayer]

breaking.

I grew up with EK. He was always beraking something whether it was records or bones. I figured "breaking" would get him in the end.

When I think of EK somehow he is always categorized with:

Bruce Lee

Gozilla movies

Elvis Presely hype

I don't know why. Must be the stuff of the 70s.

RIP Mr. EK.

[Las Vegas Dave]

CLEARWATER, Fla. - Evel Knievel, the hard-living motorcycle daredevil whose exploits made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69. Knievel's death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel. He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs.

Knievel had undergone a liver transplant in 1999 after nearly dying of hepatitis C, likely contracted through a blood transfusion after one of his bone-shattering spills.

[mylife]

That's nothing. In the winter we would build a ramp out of packed snow and ice and jump bales of hay using Flexible Fliers, and in the summer, we jumped over the the little kids in the neigborhood while riding banana bikes over a ramp made from plywood (and broken Flexible Fliers)

LoL!

[T.Smith]

That toy is really cool when we are being nostalgic, but it’s got nothing on the Fly Wheels of today. My son has those and they freakin’ go! They're only about $5 to boot!

[SevenofNine]

How about this
My cousin live in apartment we used crank that baby up and try get Evel Kneverl toy jump over garbage cans

I do remember how many time we crank that up the toy broke after so many try ROFL

[redrunner]

Didn’t he have a son who tried to follow in his “foot-steps”?

I saw Robbie Knievel jump a bunch of cars in the Pontiac Silverdome aournd 1983... Evel was there too... It was really kind of cool...

[Deguello]

"early/mid 70s... at a dragstrip in Enis, TX"

It would have been Green Valley Raceway in NE Fort Worth. Place in Ennis was built in the mid 80's.

[Joe Boucher]

One of the very few that took life on his own terms. For this alone I gotta admire him.
GOD bless