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Evel Knievel, the hard-living motorcycle daredevil whose exploits made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.

Knievel death was confirmed by his 21-year-old 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. He 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.

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Rest in Peace you crazy MFer
 
That guy had guts...real guts. Enjoyed watching him over the years, its too bad.
 
He was just in the news this past week for settling a lawsuit with Kanye West over using the Knievel logo.
 
Craziest mofo I'd ever seen. Remember the botched Snake River Canyon attempt in a steam-powered rocket/motorcycle thingy?

Too bad that so many of his later years were spent sick and in pain. Sorry to see him gone. We won't see the likes of him again.
 
capncrunch said:
Remember the botched Snake River Canyon attempt in a steam-powered rocket/motorcycle thingy?
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Yes, I saw it when it was broadcast. Funny too, that "botch" wasn't really botched. The parachute was to pop out at take off (don't tell anyone), or this Terb thread would have been started just after ABC's Wide World of Sports.

Gyaos Baltar.
 
May you RIP Knievel!!! Memories of all the toys I had of him when I was a kid! Fond memories!!!
 
He was one of a kind and ahead of his time and technology.
This guy used Harley Davidson modified bikes KNOWING that he wont make the jump due to bad shocks, forks etc.etc (lack of technology)
The funny thing is he still wanted to jump knowing that for the distance he was attemping the technology at the time couldnt keep up. He still jumped just to put on show for the fans. He was nutz but had balls of steel.

People think he fell allot because of a lack of talent but that wasnt the case. He fell allot due to the fact that the jumps he wanted to attemp were wayy to advanced for what that era bike wise presented. If he was 21 years old now with the technology we have today he'd make 99% of the jumps.

Plus I doubt he had the best crew back then. Back then they would just look at the jump site without not much planning like Robbie does now (days, weeks, months of planning and calculating wind speed and such). Back then Evel would feel the rain comming down knowing the ramp will be slippery and look at the crowd that showed up and say F-it, lets do it..lol

He said in many interviews that his bikes sucked and he knew he would fall but he didnt want to disappoint the fans.

RIP my man, you were the best of the best;)
 
I first read about him years ago in Esquire Magazine. Thought it was a fiction piece because I didn't believe there was a human who could be so fearless over and over again.
 
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