I met Evel in the "Cloud 9 Bar" at the Maxim Hotel in Las Vegas in 1994. It was around 1 in the afternoon and he was sitting by himself facing the lobby. I recognized him immediately but was terrified to approach him, so I asked the bartender to send over a drink with my compliments. I gave him a "thumbs up" and to my surprise he waived me over. We talked for about 30 minutes and it was an incredible scene. He was everything I expected and more. He was the very embodiment of a tough generation that has now passed. What a remarkable human being he was. It was the memory of a lifetime

@sydmadison96

5 ай бұрын

Jealous

@1ZZ1_1ZZ1

4 ай бұрын

I guess he was friends with the owner or something and stayed there a few months a year. Out front was a big blue car, a Stuts I think, with big horns mounted on the front. The license plate read "Big Sky". Man that guy was really something. He didn't look at you, he looked through you. He had the most riveting presence of anyone I'd ever met.

@liveChef

3 ай бұрын

Cool move, not approaching the natives without some liquor or beads...😂

@dansadler2754

3 ай бұрын

Nice

@markblais7052

3 ай бұрын

What a great memory 👍🏻

As a kid in the Seventies....Evel was the Greatest!

@peternagy-im4be

8 ай бұрын

70's best decade for sure

@sjlawson3708

7 ай бұрын

My friend had one of the Snake River rockets that you pumped and let loose

@firerock6026

7 ай бұрын

Amen !!

@marlinshanklin-ww7em

7 ай бұрын

I remember the Saturday morning cartoon and action figure.

@borntoclimb7116

2 ай бұрын

Better than any Rockstar

Evil is the reason I ended up in the Emergency room with a broken arm... And my Dad, bless his heart, bought me a mini bike blue sparkle frame with a Tekumsa engine, that made my youth!

I was 4 months old when he jumped the Snake River Canyon! Evel Knievel IS THE ONLY hero of mine that has NEVER disappointed me! EVER!

@billbazen9432

8 ай бұрын

Exactly...🎉

@lugnutlarry1764

8 ай бұрын

That’s because you never had the misfortune of meeting him. Complete jackass in human form.

@jamesschulziii9098

8 ай бұрын

Man. I was probably a little bit older but yeah, Evel was a legend in his own time.❤️💯😎

@timchilders3535

8 ай бұрын

He didn't jump the canyon. He did jump into the canyon.

I remember seeing most of these jumps live when he did them in the 70’s and 80’s. We tried to do jumps on our bikes cause we wanted to be like Evel. Good times back then. Thanks for the experience.

@rumple4skin140

8 ай бұрын

Yes, trying to tune the bunny ears on the Ole bubble back t.v, just to watch em' my oh my, how I remember 😮

@flddoc2

7 ай бұрын

It was truly a great time to be a kid in America.

@JulieIelasi-lt7yp

7 ай бұрын

Thank God your still alive to text your thoughts here

@JulieIelasi-lt7yp

7 ай бұрын

​@@flddoc2it was the same here in Australia too

@flddoc2

7 ай бұрын

@@JulieIelasi-lt7yp What he means is what every kid imagined when we rode our bikes as fast as we could off a flimsy piece of wood propped up by bricks or whatever we could find launching ourselves to the dizzying heights of about 12 inches, if we were lucky, resulting in the occasional broken arm, knocked out front tooth or straddle injuries more embarrassing and funny than anything but mostly skinned and bloody elbows, knees, and foreheads haha. Nothing truly to be compared to what EK did. The summer Olympics did much worse on monkey bars set into black top playgrounds at every elementary school in the 70s haha. Some of the daredevil feats done on parallel and uneven parallel bars that were immediately banned were emulated by a lot of kids over the following weeks. The funny thing is I never heard a teacher tell a kid to stop. Instead it would be something like: “DANIEL!!! Don’t do that! Keven hit his head yesterday trying it. You have to arch more and look at where you want your body to follow.”

The wind up motorcycle toy was the best.

Thanks for this great guy's story, very well done and a great salute to the hero of millions. RIP Evel.

Whenever Evel was gonna jump something on TV, me and my grampa called the television set and were glued to the screen on the edge of our seats. Great times. As far as all of having the Stunt Cycle toy.........we had endless fun trying to get that thing to jump as far as we could. Our biceps developed faster than usual. Lol

He wasn’t jumping dirt bikes like today. He was jumping street bikes with a slightly improved suspension. THAT is insane. Launch yourself off a ramp and hope for the best. Nothing really like it before or since. This was a great time to be a kid in America.

@davidkeeton6716

2 ай бұрын

flddoc2 He was not jumping street bikes. He was jumping modified flat track race bikes, Triumph and Harley.

@flddoc2

2 ай бұрын

@@davidkeeton6716 You’re right. I didn’t intend to undersell the XR-750. A better description would’ve been to say “essentially” a street bike compared to what’s available nowadays.

The footage of Evel crashing at Caesar's Palace was shot by the actress Linda Evans.

@markmathewson6400

6 ай бұрын

Yes I heard that. And she wasn't t wearing any panties😍

Wow, Wow, Wow, and a quadruple Wow for good measure!!!! Land sakes alive, what an absolutely stellar documentary, profiling the world's one and only original badass steel cowboy, the Wyatt Earp of extreme sports, Mr. Evel Knievel. There have been pretenders and contenders along the way, but there's only one King Of The Daredevils.

@brian3174

8 ай бұрын

yes EDDIE KIDD of UK beat Knievel in dual comp for world title and if Eddie had not been disabled by freak crash he would've incinerated Knievel's records one by one plus snake river wasn't a motorcycle was a ballistic missile with wheels lol good on him trying at least his son got to grand canyon after dad wasn't allowed plus Robbie done it on real motorbike max kudos too all stuntmen

@cabzombie3484

6 ай бұрын

I don’t think so !

@SultanOfTwang1956

6 ай бұрын

@@cabzombie3484 Hey, Makes no difference to me one way or another, as they say opinions vary, you've got yours, and I've got mine, that's my own personal feeling about it, so whatever dude!!!!

He was more than just a daredevil that's for sure everything he said is true

@craigalcock6868

11 ай бұрын

Really bitting lions balls off don't think so

@Johnny2Bags47

9 ай бұрын

Don't get me wrong...he is one of my all time favorites....But a lot of the things he said...he was so full of crap. He did a lot of drugs and was a huge hypocrite especially when he would give his speto everyone about never do drugs 💉 etc. Hilarious and Sweet!

@williambarringer6513

9 ай бұрын

@@Johnny2Bags47you will not take the drugs after you break your pelvis? I doubt it

@rickyestes7477

8 ай бұрын

@@Johnny2Bags47 your statement is true but how many kids stayed away from drugs because of his words... with all his surgeries and injuries he probably had a lot of pain to deal with

@Greg-zr2pf

8 ай бұрын

Not from street drugs. That was the same case with Elvis. He stood there with President Nixon and told kids to stay away from drugs

I was a young boy in the mid 70’s & I had the Evil Kneivel toy. Really enjoyed this video.

Growing up in the 70's EVEL was every nieborhoods boys Idol . We all use to pretend we where him , on our pedol bikes jumping tires etc . Me as well. Well my fame for jumping a bike came at a local town picnic and there was a jump by the bathroom building about 13ft high I was told by ppl I was higher than the building and when I landed my handle bar bent I saved it and there was a band playing and a tree I could sit in to see the band well he and band ppl seen it and said about it and said give him a round of applause just like EVEL kneivel . He said. Ppl clapped and well on my motorcycles I always took his advice to wear a helmet. And well one wreck I glad I did .big rock scraped deep into it. So a big Ty EVEL ya always will be the best & A Legend to many of us that grew up in the 70S and hopefully the new generation will follow the king of jumps .am a well knowen person myself in one place on the Internet and well ya proved ya wasn't a Bitchboy guy . ,lol TM , H3LLRAZORMUGGZ13 😎

I jumped my 10 speed when I was 12 and smashed and ruined the rear wheel on the landing ramp. I wasn't really hurt until my Dad found out I ruined my bike. Then I was hurt. Bad.

Great Documentary. Much love to your family. Sometimes there is an perfect time to take an life lesson. And of coarse it would take Mr. Knievil to relay it. 💙🙏

Ill bet if you asked Rishi Sunak if he knew who Evel Knievel is he would give you a blank stare. When we was growing up on a coundil estate in 1970s England Evel took us somewhere else. Its no accident that a ramp made out of half plank and a few bricks was the jump for our push bikes. Normal pushbikes. No bmxs. Theyde not come yet. Same as state of the art Motocrossers. We lived side by side x

My mom loved this guy! She was lucky enough to have known him at his prime. She always said that her best friend growing up was his head mechanic

@user-jr7sf7zj2m

6 ай бұрын

He's your dad

@linuskim

3 ай бұрын

@@user-jr7sf7zj2mso so wrong but we all thought it.

He was my hero. I tried to copy but as a young teenager I was on a bicycle. That did not stop me. I wrote off several bikes but always botched the back together. My specialty was wheelying. I was epic at that.

@vicbittertoo

7 ай бұрын

COOL, SAME HERE, COULD WHEELIE AROUND THE ENTIRE BLOCK ON MY HOME MADE "SKID KID", IN STRAYA THATS WHAT WE CALLED BIKES WITH, oops, caps lock.. a big front wheel and small back wheel :), fun times, go to the rubbish tip for parts

@andymcneil7085

7 ай бұрын

@@vicbittertoo yeah exactly that. Grab bits off bikes too fucked to be used.

@vicbittertoo

7 ай бұрын

@@andymcneil7085 Total recycling, and us boomers get accused of not caring for the planet ??, we washed and returned our milk, beer and coke bottles, etc, etc , i would get parts from the tip, sand and paint them, new bearings, etc, , built very cool custom bikes and sold them to school mates, always had a couple of orders on the go :), cheers

@JulieIelasi-lt7yp

7 ай бұрын

Yeah I bet you did too.

Who in the world will ever be cooler than Evel Knievel? I love that Joe Louis was his hero …

Some of my very first memories in life are of Evel Knievel 💯👍😁

He only broke 30 bones ? When I was a kid the radio stations said he broke every bone in his body 3 times over his career ! 😂😂😂 always loved EK .

I would have loved to see Robbie do just ONE JUMP on the same XR750 Evel used.

Had the stunt cycle..and motor home..the things me and my friends ude to jump with the cycle and the ramp that came with the motor home. I can vividly remember playing with it in my living room

Remember watching his jumps on ABC Wild World ofSports back in the early 70s and in my neighborhood we would set up jumps for our bikes

The man had balls that snake river rocket was insane

@alanmeyers3957

8 ай бұрын

And he knew he wasn’t going to make it and did it anyway 👍

@andrewpinheiro7202

8 ай бұрын

@@alanmeyers3957 that’s the craziest part that thing had hi probability to blow up before it even left the ramp

In my childhood Evel was THERE for me. I have greater respect after hearing his comment towards Hell's Angels 🎉 ! Evel, A REAL MAN ♂️👞 !!!!

He's broken more than 30 bones but encouraged more than 100,000 people to break theirs

@borntoclimb7116

2 ай бұрын

Lol thats nothing in comparsion to all the Internet challenges from today.

I think his Canyon jump was on wide world of sports , With none other than howard cosell but as a kid, I didn't realize how dangerous this actually was I was fortunate enough to see this live

It was a long time ago, but I remember watching him jump.

Evil and kap kneviel were good friends of now they are in heaven with roger reiman evils mechanic and friend and from my hometown of kewanee evil spent slot of time there in the 1970s and 80s along with kaptin knevel and I miss all three dearly as they taught me all lot about life and how to be as an adult I only hope I'm 1\2the man they were

This guy was awesome love every word coming out of his mouth

"Im gonna slap him so hard theyre gonna pick him up for speeding in San Fransisco" 😂

@user-ml3dp9hq7o

8 ай бұрын

Not that funny bro clown 🤡

He did it with big heavy bikes too

Apparently, he was a bit of an Outlaw to begin with. lol, boys were a fair bit Wilder back then, (at 18 they were being sent to Korea, later Vietnam). I believe that had an influence in their greater apt to risks. The late 40's and 50's were when Motorcycles really picked up interest, the Brando and James Dean images were very much representative of the Spirit at the time, continuing to expand as they moved into the 1960's. It took some guts and questionable Brain Balance to do such "speed and stunts", and "on a Motorcycle" ... After all, theres no airbags or seat belts, you know ... 🏍️

Absolute legend

These days these types of stunts are practiced hundreds of times by jumping off a ramp into a foam filled pit. Respect to Evel Knievel.

🏆 Sharing

The appeal of Evel Knievel was not that he had the ability to make jumps, it was in fact his ability to fail, crash and suffer great injury. People paid to see him crash. If he made every jump he would not have been successful. Period.

19:36 Exactly what we got my little Sister for Christmas, 1975, she Loved it!

Great rider great showman didn't take crap from hells angels either.

Growing up as a kid in the 70s was the best. Getting home from playing backyard football all day just in time to catch the knievel jump on NBC and remembering the Ali Frazier fight was on ABC later that night. With Evel as my hero, what was i supposed to do, NOT steal my sisters car and drive it 100 mph every chance i got?...YEAH RIGHT.

Evel Knievel was the ULTIMATE AMERICAN LEGEND/Folk Hero! There will never ever be another E K. R I P !

@rumple4skin140

8 ай бұрын

I'm not sure if there's a station out there that would, air something like this, but then again some stations promote cutting your Wang off😅

My brother had one of the stunt bike 1975 Australia.

Does anyone know the name of the song @ 26:33? I would really like to hear the whole thing. I've put lyrics into Google and I get nothing. I've also let Google listen to it. Still nothing.

He is one of the most courageous men of the century. To do something knowing that it could kill you is pure Courage.

He made more money off of a toy contract than anything else. Amazing..a 5 dollar plastic toy. Kids made him rich.

❤❤💙 ❤💙❤ Team Knievel For Life### ❤

Nice 👍

Let's be honest, Evel's greatest accomplishment was breaking Sheldon Saltman's arms. Ya gotta love it.

See I don't have the same memories the BRADYS INSISTED I HAD????

His is the first time I recall hearing that the jump over the river was a mile. That's crazy. 🤪

I don’t get how people thought it was a scam when he had blood all over him and clearly almost died in that rocket, did they think the blood was fake?

@EarthSurferUSA

9 ай бұрын

As Theodor Roosevelt, (the good Roosevelt), once said: "It is not the critic that counts, but the man who is actually in the arena" (paraphrasing). The people who make such claims, are the people who are scared to actually "live", and have not lived a day in their life. I think they are jealous cowards, who despise anybody who does not need a baby sitter as they demand and require for themselves. There are more today than then I estimate.

@brian3174

8 ай бұрын

wasn't a scam as such but Evel knew he was going to fail before he jumped but did jump for fans like a true hero would no scam if was scam he wouldnt have risked life if parachute hadn't went early he would've made jump god knows what would've happened if he landed at rockets speed and weight could've killed him easier with impact alone

@peternagy-im4be

8 ай бұрын

​@@EarthSurferUSAespecially more of them today in this joke society. Pathetic little babies everywhere. No backbone whatsoever.

MR. EDDIE KIDD THE BEST "EVER"!!!!!!!!!

He might of left the limelight but not forgotten,

Heard some crazy stories about him in Butte

@EarthSurferUSA

9 ай бұрын

Just remember, "hearsay" is distorted and amplified. The more people it travels through, the most distortion and amplification.

My mom got me the toy bike jump for xmass. Never forget.

Evel Knievel was a great man who made Harley-Davidson the best motorcycle in the country of America the world, it was a man that knew what he wanted to do

💙

Evel Knievel is the original founder of the action sports entertainment industry

Whenever I see on YT "The true story", like our education of American history, it probably is not.

@EarthSurferUSA

9 ай бұрын

Turns out, what I said is true again.

He did it all but he never jumped the shark. RIP EK

Man he was the Man. Only Evil could do that!! Period!!

@cabzombie3484

6 ай бұрын

Correct the spelling,”EVEL” is our man !

evel was the best stuntman on The map his JumpS were great!! The best jump was Paris ISLAND Jump So was the rest ov his Jumps.

Yea the bikes these days are way more forgiving evels bike basically no suspension at all and heavy to as compared to the bikes today he did the undo able balls of solid steel

RIP EVEL

😁 - "I never lie." _Evel Knievel lying through his teeth._

You have to wonder why he never put more suspension on those XR750s. He loved Harley. Great. Just modify it for what you are doing with it. If he had done that, and understood about rear wheel speed affecting flight/landing angle, he could have jumped farther and landed safely. Look at his son and Bubba. They had better suspension.

It's amazing that every jump he was drunk...

Evel did all thst crazy shit on a Harley

"Jumping the shark" is now related to performing a failure and ending a career. But not just with Knievel. The Fonz, (happy days show), also jumped sharks, witch signaled the end of that TV show.

@EarthSurferUSA

9 ай бұрын

Fonzi jumping the shark, the end of the show: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dadtr5OmXcfWl7A.html

@johndef5075

8 ай бұрын

The phrase Jumping the Shark came after the Happy Days show. Nothing to do with EK.

@lilorbielilorbie2496

8 ай бұрын

@@johndef5075 They also went on to film like another 100 episode's of Happy Days after the shark jump.

@Forlornguild

8 ай бұрын

@@lilorbielilorbie2496 But the show lost its popularity. The phrase "Jumped the shark" came from that Happy Days episode with Fonz jumping the shark on water skies. It signaled the end... they over did it... too much... made the show goofy.

He sabotaged his own jump landings the true definition of real masochist

I cannot say for sure because I wasn't there. but It is rumored and certainly from the media recaps, it seems as if Robbie did all of Evil*s last jumps.

Yeah, Robert "Evel Knievel" was and always will be tho Excellence of execution "!!... hands down...

What are u texting about , its not related to this bio

Color me lucky! R.I.P Legend.

There ain't a Hells Angel or any other biker with the guts Evel had - And he was cool - Them dudes wish they could carry his piss bucket -

👍👌🇺🇸

I had the Evel Knievel lunchbox. I protected it like the hope diamond.u

His girlfriend looks younger than his daughter! But she's not after his money or anything like that 🙄

@peternagy-im4be

8 ай бұрын

Please don't be silly Andrew

@petertosh4748

8 ай бұрын

Hypergamos by nature.. They ALL are...

'cause there's things going on that you don't know!!!!...

❤ Evel Knievel is right God put you on Earth to do your best I would have loved to hang out with that guy

I guess the guy thought it was BS about Evel Knievel’s Cesar story, didn’t get that it was a joke, DA

Hes 💯 percent some people are Rat's 🐀

I have a titanium elbow rods in my back screw's in my arms and legs. this is how we grew up back in the 80s trying to be evil we made ramps out of everything ❤

Evel Knievel Was The Man! I Remember Having An Apollo 5 Speed Bicycle, And Made Some Ramps To Jump Over 3 Garage Cans! And I Did It! But My Mom Whipped My Behind!!! 😂😂😂

44:33 come on man it was Buzz Aldrin 😒

he was quite a character. a showmen who.rause a stunt person a son named robbie. those were the days my friends. humans like to watch death defying feats. it seems humanxs like watching people die. the romans had gladiatiors crucifixion and more. war is death and destruction.

No matter what happens, the initiation of violence is wrong, (from a citizen or a government), and not even thought of if there is a proper court system to "right the wrongs".

I like this guy evil hes a fuuny guy 😅so hes italian too .

He was punk before there was punk. 🤙🤙🤙☮️🦬🪶

Who turned the throttle?

I saw him at Wembley. .Must've been about 8 at the time.

Superhero / not fiction

You know Ole Evel was CTEing major. He was doing some dumb sh*t at the end.

Yeah, about 19 minutes into the video there's a part of his Daredevil Journey that correlate's with the biblical statement,,,of how mankind will be looking for death and can't find it...

@42:59 I'm sorry sir but EVEL is full of BS , HIS STORY of the lion and Julius Caesar is so far off on a time line it would be closer to 20 - 30 great grand parents not 4 great grand parents to be anywhere near that time in 42-45 BC. it's funny to hear the stories of people who don't have the power of the Internet at their finger tip to research what they talking about.. 42:59

@moaningpheromones

8 ай бұрын

all hail the power of the internet. bow down.

He’s prof that b s sales lol

Where's the twins I heard there still alive should I be scared or not?

@Greg-zr2pf

8 ай бұрын

Robbie died about 8 months ago 🙏

Yep!... Evel Knievel was the Lynyrd Skynyrd of hell raising Daredevil - acts!!... hands down...