http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071130/ap_on_re_us/obit_knievel

Awful news, I actually had a motorcycle and doll when I was a kid.  Big money items now.    :-/

He's liived in a lot of pain. I just watched "Biography" a few weeks back, it was on him.

One thing I didn't know was how prevelant he was as one of the first "Anti-Drugs-stay in school" advocates.

I too had the SSP?  SST? toy.  Stick in the zip tye type thingy and pull.  I had a bunch of those as a kid but the EK one was the "cool" one to have,lol

RIP

Definatly one of a kind.    I wonder what he thought of today's guys and there performances.  I mean he basically was the grandfather of trick riding.    I'm sure he will be missed

Definatly one of a kind. I wonder what he thought of today's guys and there performances. I mean he basically was the grandfather of trick riding. I'm sure he will be missed

I know exactly what he thought, I have the smae thoughts about today's extreme skiers.  When I skied, jumping was "illegal",...you would get your ticket pulled.  Nowadays, they build ramps and parks for the freestylers to ride in.

Sports progress like anything else and the old timers are in awe of what the kids are pulling today.  There are some amazing athletes in the extreme sports and a lot of it started with EK.  It blows my mind that "Curling is still an Olympic event but skateboarding isn't.  Skateboarders (no I don't really skate) do some amazingly acrobatic/athletic things.

I think he would be proud of how far they have come

Out of curiosity why was jumping illeagal then.  I have never skied or know much about it.  What little I have watched it I always seen them jump in some form.   I'm not doubting what you say just curious.  

Well, not "illegal" but not allowed.  They used to worry about npeople getting nhurt/liability.  People would "catch air" wherever there was a bump or launch pad big enough. Soon, ski patrol would come by and "X" it off with big bamboo sticks.

So it got to wherer we would go up the mtn w/ those mini folding army shovels and build our own ramps (small) and hit them on the next run, till they would close it off.

That's the way it was.  Then snowboarding came into the game.  Many mtns tried to seperate them from the traditional skiers by building "parks" in certain areas for them to ride (1/2 pipes, etc.)

Well, the skiers started making their way into the parks and would get in troule for that too.

Eventuallly, they developed "freestyle areas" where everyone could go catch air.  Nowadays they have added different types of jumps, aerial, table tops, etc along with rails, boxes and all kinds of things to play with.

The stuff these kids can pull today is awesome, what I'm saying is that we didn't have all this "tailored terrain" to learn on like the kids today.  I only WISH we had that stuff wjhen I was young.  Back in my day, to "go big", you were often looking off the lip of a 50 ft headwall.  

Evel Knievel was one of a Kind.  He will surely be missed  :'(

RIP Evil...glad I got to see him

I saw him jump 13 Mack trucks in 1975...yes he made the jump...he also rode wheelies around CNE stadium in Toronto like it was nobody's business

short tribute with song here