Scientist actually say that it's extremely crazy that Evel Knievel was even able to perform these jumps considering the weight of his massive balls weighing him down.
@africanwarlord59462 жыл бұрын
haha good one, you are absolutely correct, cast iron
@davida2111 Жыл бұрын
Everyone can Do this jumps, the dificult is a good landing...
@borntoclimb7116 Жыл бұрын
Counterbalanced by an absence of brain.
@NxDoyle Жыл бұрын
@@borntoclimb7116 well the air is yours my friend hop on a Harley and head down to Caesar’s palace and I will buy a ticket and a beer 💪🏻💪🏻
@bigpoppadarb9940 Жыл бұрын
@@bigpoppadarb9940 as a climber, i like the air
@borntoclimb7116 Жыл бұрын
I'm even more impressed that he managed to do them all in 5 1/2 minutes. That's got to be a record.
@EATSLEEPDRIVE20026 ай бұрын
About 3 minutes of flight time! Ever notice that all jumps take 3 - 4 seconds? Even Madison's long jumps; due to speed, only last that long....same with any vehicle - truck or car...
@StudioDaVeed4 ай бұрын
I remember as a kid watching Wide World of Sports and waiting through all the boring stuff until the last 10 minutes when Evel would do a jump live. VERY exciting because you didn't know if he would make it or not so you were right on the edge of your seat and the whole family was watching. I can tell you we always wanted him to make it and it was a relief when he did.
@davida2111 Жыл бұрын
You damn old as shit
@gooffyahwalter4109 Жыл бұрын
Same like many jumpers today
@borntoclimb7116 Жыл бұрын
@@borntoclimb7116 what do you mean?
@thomashamilton9864 Жыл бұрын
Better times. Now ,it’s sad.
@jameshuckvale768510 ай бұрын
Brought to you by Mutual Of Omaha.......Stay Alive by Milton Bradley.......
@ericwangler27106 ай бұрын
Greatest daredevil all time
@Grizzlied5559 ай бұрын
He holds the guinness world record for the most bones broken in a lifetime at 433. Let that sink in for a few minutes. I broke a bone in my right hand once when I was a kid and I'll never forget how bad it hurt for quite a few weeks. They take about 6 weeks to heal if you're young. Dude must have had an incredible pain threshold.
@joeldriver-sp2rg3 ай бұрын
My Dad took me to the Houston Astrodome when I was a boy as a surprise to see Evel jump. Absolutely magical memory
@johnevans19697 ай бұрын
WOW ! that would be fun as a kid !
@csnide67027 ай бұрын
And during those jump events there was more peace than a soccer game
@borntoclimb7116Ай бұрын
What a golden age! Modern dudes do even bigger jumps with more bitchin bikes but it’s just not the same. There’s just something about originality vs a copy cat.
@kcb53362 жыл бұрын
Keep in mind this is a 900 lb bike with a 240 lb man with no suspension
@marshallcurran17222 жыл бұрын
And the outfit. He was way before my time but I get what you’re saying. The nostalgia the footage brings and the venues for such a crazy stunt. Can’t beat it. He was a pioneer of madness!!🤙🏽
@jick74072 жыл бұрын
@mistermodified1 I think your missing part of the point. The fact that it was a Harley was a huge part of it (very intentionally). Americana!
@kcb53362 жыл бұрын
@@marshallcurran1722 900lb bike and 240lb man??? lol Not even close on either count. Those bikes are probably around or under 350lbs or so and Evel weighed no more than 180lbs.
@joebauers3746 Жыл бұрын
Has nothing to do with copy cat and original. Evel was famous for crashing. The distances they jump nowadays (record 425ft) are more than triple of what Evels furthest jump (133ft) was. When you crash doing such a jump your chances of survival are pretty slim. (As Alex Harvill sadly proved when crashing on a 350ft jump)
@Harry_GersackАй бұрын
Whether You Loved Him, Or Thought He Was Nuts, You Certainly Had To Admire His Courage! 😮
@kevinballenger12119 ай бұрын
He was either the bravest man that ever lived or the dumbest. Hell, maybe he was both.
@farkrits2 жыл бұрын
Same like Alex Honnold or Alain Robert
@borntoclimb7116 Жыл бұрын
@@borntoclimb7116 at least Alex Honnold isn’t brutalizing his body like daredevils who routinely fall and break bones. If Alex makes a mistake, he’s instantly dead - but if he continues to be a success, he just gets a healthy exercise that he won’t have to pay for in old age. Eval’s elderly years were miserable due to all the punishment he put his body through.
@AdamsBrew78 Жыл бұрын
@@AdamsBrew78 thats true, one mistake and he is death but some freesolo climbers survive with horror injuries, Alain Robert is a good example. Im a freesolo climber too, i climv towers, chimneys, skyscrapers and rockwalls, is very very dangerous. Daredevils who ridea bike have a big cance for a bad life after a accident, is sad but better than death
@borntoclimb7116 Жыл бұрын
@@borntoclimb7116 Leclerc is a favorite.
@junqone Жыл бұрын
@borntoclimb7116 I would like to see your videos! I have climbed cliffs 300 feet tall with no rope
@russellgordon464211 ай бұрын
I was in the stands and watched him successfully jump 14 buses at Kings Island. Most amazing thing I've ever witnessed in my life. He's an American icon.
@crmolnar16 ай бұрын
Not like the miracle of child birth or a hybrid solar eclipse? Just a guy going over a bus? Ohio has low standards
@c.h.23926 ай бұрын
@@c.h.2392 Get real here. Not sure if you're ignorant, stupid or just trolling... So the miracle of child birth is a American icon? 😂
@Superjet1136 ай бұрын
He could jump for sure...but was not the best of landers
@carbonsiliconnn4 жыл бұрын
Blasphemy. The planet wasn’t where he wanted to land. ;)
@Willigula2 жыл бұрын
Don't forget the bikes he used didn't have the special suspensions for jumping that they do now, so his body often too the brunt of the landing and it was hard to hold on.
@jonburrows86022 жыл бұрын
@@jonburrows8602 yeah why was he riding choppers instead of a scrambler, guy was a lunatic, they can jump that stuff easy now but it’s like he wanted to die
@rolandtomassi34862 жыл бұрын
People came to see the jump, not the landing
@salsa_assassin64782 жыл бұрын
Some of the jumps he did nobody could land. ESPECIALLY since it was the 1970s-1990s and they were street bikes.
@lunxo999 Жыл бұрын
I was just a little kid when he was doing his thing, but what i remember most was that the guy almost always crashed. Looking back now, it's easy to see why. The ramp designs were totally flawed. In the one clip you can see that the approach ramp actually had a slight negative slope right before take-off. He was losing altitude before even being in the air. Like WTF?! I guess that's what happens when you hire carnies instead of engineers. "Yo Snake! W'need one more 8 ba 4 sheeda' plawood 'n we should b'gud."
@vonmilash8234 жыл бұрын
This guy landed one in every 10 attempts, I just thought he was really sht at his job and suicidal
@ChrisHillASMR2 жыл бұрын
"Ah got a sheeta 3/8's OSB, Fahve gallonsa' gas, 'an a box o' 9 mullimeters. Y'all come at me."
@seanbaskett5506 Жыл бұрын
He was my dad's age born in the depression era 30's these guys had true Grit, I remember being in awe of this man's courage to risk his life, and inspired by his passion to go farther each time . What a time to be alive to see a pioneer of this hi risk stuff. Legend ✌️🇺🇲
@garyelder-hx5vs9 ай бұрын
His failures just got bigger and bigger. That's not Grit, that's silliness.
@jonq87148 ай бұрын
@@jonq8714 guess you just had to be there to understand. He didn't let fear stop his dreams, and hes an icon for it .
@garyelder-hx5vs8 ай бұрын
If Evel had today's motorcycles and computer designed landing and takeoff ramps, he would have preformed miracles. As it is today, NOBODY has even came close to his jumps. A true icon🇺🇸
@cajun869 Жыл бұрын
Wrong. The 1970s were the pinnacle of motorsports. Only safety has increased like you'd think all of it did. Motorbikes get slower and less powerful. The early 2 stroke 125cc were way faster than today's junk. UK cbt bikes upto 125cc is BS since today's 250cc is like the 125 back when the law was made. The bikes going around Isle of man TT in the 70s vs today's. The 1990s was the true moment for Motorbikes. Big fast one's. 18.000rpm bikes. 200+mph bikes. Emissions and safety ruined it since.
@AxelFreeDog-ob9fg Жыл бұрын
@@AxelFreeDog-ob9fg No, you are wrong, by far. Horsepower is far greater today in ALL engines compared to the past with being cleaner at the same time. Only problem is the higher cost that comes with it. You missed my point about Evel though. I was referring to modern shock designs, suspension components along with computer designed takeoff and landing ramp angles. Something Evel never had, not even close. Speed was never a problem for him.
@cajun869 Жыл бұрын
Evel Knievel's Son Robbie Knievel was really good also.
@bigrobotnewstoday14369 ай бұрын
Not to mention he did this shit on meat n' potatoe Harleys. I wouldn't wanna jump a hog over a match box car, nevermind 20 real ones!
@paulmurphy71069 ай бұрын
um..... todays bike jumpers have gone WAY further....
@csnide67027 ай бұрын
Those tiny landing ramps and basically riding a street bike. It is amazing he ever landed without crashing! These guys today aren't doing the same thing Evel was doing. He was truly a dare devil!
@kevinincarolina60579 ай бұрын
It wasn't the landing that got him, it was the crappy suspension reacting to the landing, damn rebound.
@chizorama7 ай бұрын
Nah guys today just jump more than triple the distance of his furthest jump. I can understand that ol' Evel gets ya wet he was a true madman but there's no reason talking crap about stunts being performed today
@Harry_GersackАй бұрын
@@Harry_Gersack The science and technology is far superior today. With unbalanced and primitive equipment, the gamble was huge. Comparing the eras is silly.
@peterjohnson173417 күн бұрын
@@peterjohnson1734 Tell this kevinincarolina
@Harry_Gersack17 күн бұрын
Hard to land a bike when it only has 4 inches of travel in the suspension. Evel could have jumped the fountains like Robbie did with today's bikes.💀🇺🇸
@ManiacRider31133 жыл бұрын
Hard to believe he did all that on a 300lb XR750
@Mechadenzilla2 жыл бұрын
Yes, a ragdoll with all those heavy bikes with junk suspension
@davidcarper54117 ай бұрын
The rebound was ridiculous, as end kickin like a pissed bronco, don't even want to think about how bad the jolt was bottoming out.
@chizorama7 ай бұрын
He likely wouldn't have landed regardless of the bike. I remember that landing ramp looking terrible. The ramps Travis Pastrana used to jump the fountains where basically perfect. That makes a way bigger difference than the bike.
@SkadooHusky26 күн бұрын
@@SkadooHusky Definitely alot more calculations in todays stunts than then. 👍
@ManiacRider311326 күн бұрын
There are probably thousands of kids that broke bones in the name of Evel Knievel. A real-life superhero of the neighborhood kids back in the day.
@chaseme98606 ай бұрын
Yea, when I was 7 or 8, my buddies and I were jumping over eachother on our bikes. You know, schwins and sears roebuck, Jeff laid down and my rather heavy buddy landed on him breaking Jeffs arm. What a surprise, we all got sent different ways and couldn't see eachother for a whole week. Cement blocks and a short piece of 2x 12 was all we needed for a good time.
@jerryw66996 ай бұрын
Love how he pulls all the way up to the end of the ramp at Caesars...stops ...looks at what he's about to do and goes ...this is really gonna hurt ... and then proceeds to crash that landing ...its hilarious.
@TheGodfather-bm3ow Жыл бұрын
To this day the world record holder for the most bones broken in a lifetime
@Darthvvill8 ай бұрын
Evel is/was a god. The whole reason I still ride dirtbikes today (in my 50s). Thank you Mr. Knievel for all the amazing inspiration.
@Dirtbiker-guy7 ай бұрын
He exemplified numerous aspects of humanity, and hopefully nobody else will try to duplicate it, he already did it - something about being so hungry for success that he would literally risk his life, he was nuts but I'll always look up to that dude. he create excitement and suspense for so many countless people, including me. Got people's blood flowing, that can't be bad.
@2047764392 жыл бұрын
Same like so many another jumpers, Stuntmans and climbers
@borntoclimb7116 Жыл бұрын
@Josh Traffanstedt well he beat his wife and tried to beat a journalist to death with a baseball bat, then declared bankruptcy when the journalist won a lawsuit so that he wouldn't have to pay. So he was either nuts or a straight up bad person.
@KrikZ32 Жыл бұрын
He married a 17 year old girl in his 40’s and whooped her ass all the time
@AlQaeda198 Жыл бұрын
@Conway Twitter is funny,criminal violent peoples are hatetby society but if they sre famous, than its ok. Love those hypocrites.
@borntoclimb7116 Жыл бұрын
@Conway Twitter literally every woman in the world right now would be better off with a swift quick slap to the face
@derekwatson8211 Жыл бұрын
tuck and roll, man. dang
@ultrakool4 жыл бұрын
It's like he goes into ragdoll mode. Did he do that on purpose or accident?
@africanwarlord59462 жыл бұрын
The amount of force is too much for tuck and roll! 🤦🙄
@wendysw714 Жыл бұрын
@@wendysw714 what do you know about it, newton?
@ultrakool Жыл бұрын
@@ultrakool 😁
@wendysw714 Жыл бұрын
What caused most of his failed jumps just from watching this video is the fact his take off ramps had no transition from ground-ramp. So the bikes “suspension” is compressing then rebounding before he even gets to the lip
@kjmaury5116 Жыл бұрын
Straight up redneck engineering and balls
@notreally2406 Жыл бұрын
The man's body sure took a beating. As a kid in the 70's, seeing bravery like that was inspiring. I had the Evel Knievel stunt cycle toy and spent many hours in the basement jumping it over homemade ramps.
@tkreitler5 ай бұрын
He was truly a pioneer, madman, and showman extraordinaire but when you compare his jumps to bike stunts they do these days it's clear Evel wasn't very expert at it. Maybe that was part of his appeal, that "everyman" quality.
@jimnasium4527 ай бұрын
This compilation may be the first time I've ever seen Evel NOT crash a jump.
@TheBierp7 ай бұрын
My friend was arrested in Kansas city in the 80s for fighting. The only other person in the holding cell that night was Evel Knievel.
@bigKANG420 Жыл бұрын
if he had the technology of today he would still be the best! Those motorcycles where not up to task that he was asking of them lol
@moveitback13 жыл бұрын
Nah. Nobody cares about robby.. lol
@famousbowl99263 жыл бұрын
Im saying . It's a dead sport..
@famousbowl99263 жыл бұрын
@@famousbowl9926Nobody cares about you.
@avalanche30846 ай бұрын
How that maniac survived all those jumps is beyond me.
@gunsandpoker7432 Жыл бұрын
I think he broke nearly every bone in his body.
@robertallan42863 жыл бұрын
No records back this up, just a possible myth. He most likely broke several bones more than once. But considering it is Evil Knievel I would bet it's probably true lol.
@ShaunYarbrough3 жыл бұрын
At least once
@fadenmac80923 жыл бұрын
@@ShaunYarbrough somebody doesn’t get it
@producedbybanana18192 жыл бұрын
40 major bones
@iejcwejheiowcnlwekn2 жыл бұрын
He apparently fractured 433 bones. There's only 206 bones in the human body.
@africanwarlord59462 жыл бұрын
It’s crazy. In some of the videos he looks just like the toy reissue I just bought. Legend.
@eugeneiam37307 ай бұрын
All the light flashes from the cameras when he left the ramp. Sumthin ya don't see anymore. A thing you'd see at any and every event you went to back in the 70s and 80s. Concerts, shows, boxing matches, sports games............To be at some gathering with literally thousands of people snapping pictures simultaneously was a weird thing to see. I miss those days!
@paulmurphy71069 ай бұрын
Those spills look so painful on pavement but it looked like such fun to me as an 80s kid, when I’d ride my bike as fast as I could down hill, just to intentionally take the most gnarly, tumbling spill I could manage on a grassy yard-trying to imitate dare devils like Evel. Ripped up jeans and skinned knees never made me flinch or slowed me down, just got back up to have another go.
@AdamsBrew78 Жыл бұрын
The man had guts, determination, and charisma with talent mixed in. He will always be the best in my book!
@smoothpicker6 ай бұрын
Jumping stock Harleys in a fuckin' Elvis jumpsuit; Hell yeah, dude!
@bigburgerstudios2 жыл бұрын
I remember him had some of his toys. I liked that he lived his life on his terms and no one elses
@paulcunningham28597 ай бұрын
This was probably something that a young Johnny Knoxville saw on tv and said to himself "I can top that landings !"
@darealgodzilla2 жыл бұрын
Evel Knievel was an household name amongst rebels like me growing up with a push bike in the early 80's.
@saffy4352 Жыл бұрын
I saw Evel jump in 1964 or 65 in Tucson Arizona. I was ten years old. It wasn’t a sanctioned or televised jump, although I read it may have been filmed for a commercial. The jump was done on East Speedway Blvd between Craycroft and Wilmot Roads. I believe he was brought there by Bill Breck Dodge, a local car dealer. He jumped 13 (if my memory serves me correctly) school buses parked side by side and made it perfectly. I really remember his warm up. Speedway was shut down and he rode back and forth a few times sizing everything up then did a wheelie while doing what looked like 90 miles an hour (I was ten 😂) down the street. You gotta remember he was riding a Harley back then, not a motocross bike! 👍🏼😎
@IndridCool546 ай бұрын
Back when people would react to stuff
@albertomoreno30424 жыл бұрын
Not even a 50% success rate. GOAT!
@timprescott46347 ай бұрын
When I was around 10, I was the only person in my class that hadn't seen Evel Knievel. I walked to downtown so I could watch it. It was 1974 and had been out for 3 years.
@michaelmappin44256 ай бұрын
The 60's and 70's was wide world of sports. Evil Knevil created fearless excitement for some.
@duckmangooo73767 ай бұрын
A song that goes thru my head every time I watch him is...KICK START MY HEART !
@dancook7334 Жыл бұрын
he must be one of the craziest dudes that ever lived
@TheValledorLife Жыл бұрын
8 Year old me was at Wembley. Still remember it vividly. Fucking Legend.
@mikekhan372 Жыл бұрын
The. XR-750 is the ONLY H-D bike that I find attractive. Love the upward dual pipes!
@jamesborden48057 ай бұрын
I remember my wind up Evel motorcycle with Evel action figure. Mehn those were good times. I salute you Evel. 🤟
@DS..69 Жыл бұрын
With the bikes he used, he may as well have been trying to jump a tank. They were heavy with lousy suspension. It's a miracle he ever stuck a landing at all.
@davidgalaviz20046 ай бұрын
imagine if he had the technology of bikes today
@willstamps56412 жыл бұрын
true, but i feel like he had a better audience for his time
@ashuhhhlee15092 жыл бұрын
@@ashuhhhlee1509 "If had the one of these bike the kids have today I would have jumped over the moon" ~EK 2000s
@trepathy12 жыл бұрын
Just because you have no fear doesn't mean your good at it!😎
@markshark75217 ай бұрын
The grates man to ever live
@stalinfurry99909 ай бұрын
I once tried a similar stunt on my Raleigh Chopper as a child in the 80’s on a building site ... scaffolding plank up a pile of sand and over a least 10 breeze blocks and a traffic cone ... was epic .. but like our hero the landing wasn’t too clever and I bust my lip open and snapped my Wham Bar in my pocket ✊🏼✊🏾
@rocknrollramblers40513 жыл бұрын
Why the different colored fists?
@ADrunkCrayfish3 жыл бұрын
@@ADrunkCrayfish why not
@rocknrollramblers40513 жыл бұрын
@Kra Gle I miss my green metallic chopper with the sissy bar, banana seat and the rear slick. So much blood was spilled riding that thing.
@SuperChaoticus2 жыл бұрын
Similar results on my banana seat jumping ten big wheels. I got trashed.
@jameshuckvale768510 ай бұрын
We used to read about EK in our history books as Kids...dude is a legend!!
@URangryX7 ай бұрын
He's crazy and doesn't fear pain and death !!!
@franckauger94906 ай бұрын
I saw him jump as a kid, 1971 Yakima speedway😊
@hawaiiguykailua69288 ай бұрын
I was in Butte, Montana a couple months ago and stopped by Evel’s grave to say hi.
@Saint_Ann8 ай бұрын
He must have had the strongest TAINT in the galaxy . At least the most durable
@tryinhard1909 Жыл бұрын
I have to be honest, the crash at Cearsars Palace, looked like it might have hurt.
@hisoverlorduponhigh902 жыл бұрын
Yeah maybe a little
@jadenhurd7187 Жыл бұрын
But from what I learned on the past gas podcast by donut media, he did jump again
@ickess3 жыл бұрын
What a massive hero of mine.A true icon.
@garyoneill5456 ай бұрын
Evil Knievel had broken his bones 433 times! That's almost double the bones in our bodies. Damn could you imagine the pain? I have broken around 4 or 5 bones and it was almost all pretty bad except for a couple.😲
@williampollock12746 ай бұрын
I guess nobody ever told him " hey Evil,, this job aint for you."
@punishr362 жыл бұрын
I've got a 1200 xlh that has gotten me through some hectic situations. I chose it because it was the closest bike I could find like evils bike
@joegraffhobo-elect91287 ай бұрын
After Evel had a run in with the Hells Angels everyone thought it was a bad idea going through with the jump. Evel had a terrible crash and said, “What did you want me to do, give ‘em back their money?”
@Ride2Live4207 ай бұрын
My super hero of the 1970s.
@FidelCastro1287 ай бұрын
Talk about getting back on that horse.
@billystink4611 Жыл бұрын
I can’t stop laughing at the 0:44 crash. It’s only funny until someone gets hurt, then it’s hilarious.
@alexshank1414 Жыл бұрын
If there'd never been an Evel Knievel, we'd never have had a Lance Murdock or a Super Dave Osborne.
@TheOicyu8126 ай бұрын
This is not all of Evel's jumps, his last successful jump was in Seattle, WA. 1976 over only 7 buses... His last attempted jump was Chicago, IL over a pool of sharks which ended in a failed practice jump, Jan. 31, 1977.
@821KES3 жыл бұрын
That was my 11th Birthday 🎂 When I blew out my candles, my wish was he would be eaten by the sharks! 🦈🦈 😀👍
@F35020002 жыл бұрын
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@kendricmcvay7992 Жыл бұрын
The real origin of jumping the shark, copied later that year on TV series Happy Days by Fonzie
@notreally2406 Жыл бұрын
I think no heard Robbie say one time that his dad did around 300 jumps in his career.
@leonardhudson38107 ай бұрын
MORE GUTS THAN MOST
@kirklinedbom8832 Жыл бұрын
Wrong machine, had he had a modern day motocross bike he may have never crashed. Unfortunately machines like that were decades away. His son proved that. Nevertheless, he was ultimate the showman and a very brave man..RIP Evel..
@darthgrundle23497 ай бұрын
A MAN WITH NO FEAR. A REAL MAN
@kirklindbom2066 Жыл бұрын
433 broken bones in all his carrer
@BlackRose....3 жыл бұрын
No lie?
@matthewcasing73293 жыл бұрын
@@matthewcasing7329 yeah, I swear
@BlackRose....3 жыл бұрын
@@BlackRose.... your so full of shit
@dpurplefox3 жыл бұрын
@@dpurplefox According to the Guinness Book of World records he did break 433 bones in his body. It is possibly a myth that he broke every bone in his body since there is no record. It is in all likelihood that he broke several bones multiple times and even his metal replacements adding up to 433 times.
@ShaunYarbrough3 жыл бұрын
That Caesars palace jump in slo-mo makes me feel my bones breaking every time I see it 😂
@theswordofkings75496 ай бұрын
He was a pioneer, revolutionary
@klj238210 ай бұрын
The cool thing about Evel Knievel jumping was the crash. He crashed often and when he did it was spectacular.
@dondon747x2 жыл бұрын
But its sad, the Fans want saw him jumping, today we have the same sensations in our society.
@borntoclimb7116 Жыл бұрын
I had about as many EK toys as he had wrecks
@theonecalledvino8165 Жыл бұрын
Ahhh, memories of childhood and the toys.
@AmsterdamHeavy6 ай бұрын
His jump at Vegas , and his jump at England, same thing..
@tommccallan88028 ай бұрын
Dude the 3rd one with the down ramp was a recipe for disaster which the end part was way to short so it was a very hefty change of crashing
@Max_ellis744 жыл бұрын
Those slow motion crash sections....apparently the bike is pissed off at the indignity of being wrecked, and doing everything in its power to chase him down and murder the hell outta him.
@seanbaskett5506 Жыл бұрын
It'l like they knew nothing about physics or engineering back then.
@vonmilash8233 жыл бұрын
that's y the man had the biggest balls in history .
@otbmods35483 жыл бұрын
Just amazing how poorly designed the whole set up was.
@chicoassmaster42933 жыл бұрын
Well, they landed a number of capsules on the moon and brought them back to earth safely back then. It just seems Knievel didn't care for engineering and basic physics.
@saschamaj3 жыл бұрын
@@saschamaj Moon landing is so fake🤣
@davidc.8755 Жыл бұрын
Maaan.when I was a kid he was the Man. He was the master showman. Remember my hands would sweat waiting for him to jump.We made ramps and would jump out bicycles. The bikes he used were heavy with hardly no suspension which made it even more dangerous. GOD BLESS Evel and Robbie.
@gregorygolden12966 ай бұрын
Evel was great, but Robbie came along and successfully completed every jump that Evel failed at. Evel Knievel's biggest problem was jumping that heavy ass Harley 750. Evel was my childhood hero though! I had every Evel Knievel toy and accessory that they made.
@randymurphy97096 ай бұрын
The craziest thing is the huge heavy bike he used to jump with. Looks like it literally weighed a ton.
@drewlovelyhell48926 ай бұрын
LEGEND , much respect mr x
@arbite97910 ай бұрын
Is the clip at 0:15 at Madison square garden ?
@nickcojocar32987 ай бұрын
No wonder my brother and I thought Evel Knievel was awesome when we saw his stunts back in the day. He was amazing!
@m3talentagency680 Жыл бұрын
I am thankful to grow up in an era when my heroes were people like Evil Knievel, Roger Staubach, and the fictional character Steve Austin. Real men that risked life and limb to make an impression. Young boys today don’t have any real heroes to look up to today except social media influencers and rap stars.
@Randy.E.R Жыл бұрын
okay boomer
@american_psycho1147 Жыл бұрын
@@american_psycho1147 Damn right.
@Randy.E.R Жыл бұрын
@@Randy.E.R I’m right there with you brother! I was Born in the 1960’s. I watched, admired and emulated all the great men from that era! We didn’t have soyboys back in those days, like so many of these emasculated effeminate so called men today!
@beyondthematrix3945 Жыл бұрын
Yeah. Steve Austin is a real man. Okay boomer. So is Peter Parker.
@johngalush8790 Жыл бұрын
@@johngalush8790 Apparently you can’t read. I wrote “and the fictional character Steve Austin”. But its all good. I went to school when they were still teaching reading comprehension. One of the beauties of being a Boomer. 👍
@Randy.E.R Жыл бұрын
Legend... did you have the toy ...?
@gazzertrn7 ай бұрын
Cool video, what's the name of this awesome song?
@Revivethefallen Жыл бұрын
Doesn't matter how many times you crash ...it's the times that you can walk out alive and start again.
@harryputang53522 жыл бұрын
Evel Knievel was my hero as a kid. He made me want to be a stuntman. (lessons were to expensive) To think he took these jump without much more than his Elvis style outfits. No real padding. He was an animal and as tough as nails.
@drewmcgrath24506 ай бұрын
The crash at Wimply gets a “10” for style.
@hisoverlorduponhigh902 жыл бұрын
How did this man of old age?🤔miss you Bobby!
@davekent48296 ай бұрын
Balls of steel!,simple as that🤘
@Rance-rb5me10 ай бұрын
Just wingin it
@moreclips805 Жыл бұрын
The SADDEST part of EVILS wreaks are the SUSPENSION (OR LACK OF) on his BIKES!Even having a MOTORCROSS BIKE I HIT SOME NARLY ASS JUMPS and the IMPACTED of the LANDING because I USED UP ALL THE SHOCKS rips you OFF the BIKE and THAN the SHIT GETS REAL!!!
@3rdgenerationirishman5664 жыл бұрын
Sweet compilation, dude! What's the songname, by the way? Edit: nevermind; it's Ethan Meixsell - Thor's Hammer
Scientist actually say that it's extremely crazy that Evel Knievel was even able to perform these jumps considering the weight of his massive balls weighing him down.
haha good one, you are absolutely correct, cast iron
Everyone can Do this jumps, the dificult is a good landing...
Counterbalanced by an absence of brain.
@@borntoclimb7116 well the air is yours my friend hop on a Harley and head down to Caesar’s palace and I will buy a ticket and a beer 💪🏻💪🏻
@@bigpoppadarb9940 as a climber, i like the air
I'm even more impressed that he managed to do them all in 5 1/2 minutes. That's got to be a record.
About 3 minutes of flight time! Ever notice that all jumps take 3 - 4 seconds? Even Madison's long jumps; due to speed, only last that long....same with any vehicle - truck or car...
I remember as a kid watching Wide World of Sports and waiting through all the boring stuff until the last 10 minutes when Evel would do a jump live. VERY exciting because you didn't know if he would make it or not so you were right on the edge of your seat and the whole family was watching. I can tell you we always wanted him to make it and it was a relief when he did.
You damn old as shit
Same like many jumpers today
@@borntoclimb7116 what do you mean?
Better times. Now ,it’s sad.
Brought to you by Mutual Of Omaha.......Stay Alive by Milton Bradley.......
Greatest daredevil all time
He holds the guinness world record for the most bones broken in a lifetime at 433. Let that sink in for a few minutes. I broke a bone in my right hand once when I was a kid and I'll never forget how bad it hurt for quite a few weeks. They take about 6 weeks to heal if you're young. Dude must have had an incredible pain threshold.
My Dad took me to the Houston Astrodome when I was a boy as a surprise to see Evel jump. Absolutely magical memory
WOW ! that would be fun as a kid !
And during those jump events there was more peace than a soccer game
What a golden age! Modern dudes do even bigger jumps with more bitchin bikes but it’s just not the same. There’s just something about originality vs a copy cat.
Keep in mind this is a 900 lb bike with a 240 lb man with no suspension
And the outfit. He was way before my time but I get what you’re saying. The nostalgia the footage brings and the venues for such a crazy stunt. Can’t beat it. He was a pioneer of madness!!🤙🏽
@mistermodified1 I think your missing part of the point. The fact that it was a Harley was a huge part of it (very intentionally). Americana!
@@marshallcurran1722 900lb bike and 240lb man??? lol Not even close on either count. Those bikes are probably around or under 350lbs or so and Evel weighed no more than 180lbs.
Has nothing to do with copy cat and original. Evel was famous for crashing. The distances they jump nowadays (record 425ft) are more than triple of what Evels furthest jump (133ft) was. When you crash doing such a jump your chances of survival are pretty slim. (As Alex Harvill sadly proved when crashing on a 350ft jump)
Whether You Loved Him, Or Thought He Was Nuts, You Certainly Had To Admire His Courage! 😮
He was either the bravest man that ever lived or the dumbest. Hell, maybe he was both.
Same like Alex Honnold or Alain Robert
@@borntoclimb7116 at least Alex Honnold isn’t brutalizing his body like daredevils who routinely fall and break bones. If Alex makes a mistake, he’s instantly dead - but if he continues to be a success, he just gets a healthy exercise that he won’t have to pay for in old age. Eval’s elderly years were miserable due to all the punishment he put his body through.
@@AdamsBrew78 thats true, one mistake and he is death but some freesolo climbers survive with horror injuries, Alain Robert is a good example. Im a freesolo climber too, i climv towers, chimneys, skyscrapers and rockwalls, is very very dangerous. Daredevils who ridea bike have a big cance for a bad life after a accident, is sad but better than death
@@borntoclimb7116 Leclerc is a favorite.
@borntoclimb7116 I would like to see your videos! I have climbed cliffs 300 feet tall with no rope
I was in the stands and watched him successfully jump 14 buses at Kings Island. Most amazing thing I've ever witnessed in my life. He's an American icon.
Not like the miracle of child birth or a hybrid solar eclipse? Just a guy going over a bus? Ohio has low standards
@@c.h.2392 Get real here. Not sure if you're ignorant, stupid or just trolling... So the miracle of child birth is a American icon? 😂
He could jump for sure...but was not the best of landers
Blasphemy. The planet wasn’t where he wanted to land. ;)
Don't forget the bikes he used didn't have the special suspensions for jumping that they do now, so his body often too the brunt of the landing and it was hard to hold on.
@@jonburrows8602 yeah why was he riding choppers instead of a scrambler, guy was a lunatic, they can jump that stuff easy now but it’s like he wanted to die
People came to see the jump, not the landing
Some of the jumps he did nobody could land. ESPECIALLY since it was the 1970s-1990s and they were street bikes.
I was just a little kid when he was doing his thing, but what i remember most was that the guy almost always crashed. Looking back now, it's easy to see why. The ramp designs were totally flawed. In the one clip you can see that the approach ramp actually had a slight negative slope right before take-off. He was losing altitude before even being in the air. Like WTF?! I guess that's what happens when you hire carnies instead of engineers. "Yo Snake! W'need one more 8 ba 4 sheeda' plawood 'n we should b'gud."
This guy landed one in every 10 attempts, I just thought he was really sht at his job and suicidal
"Ah got a sheeta 3/8's OSB, Fahve gallonsa' gas, 'an a box o' 9 mullimeters. Y'all come at me."
He was my dad's age born in the depression era 30's these guys had true Grit, I remember being in awe of this man's courage to risk his life, and inspired by his passion to go farther each time . What a time to be alive to see a pioneer of this hi risk stuff. Legend ✌️🇺🇲
His failures just got bigger and bigger. That's not Grit, that's silliness.
@@jonq8714 guess you just had to be there to understand. He didn't let fear stop his dreams, and hes an icon for it .
If Evel had today's motorcycles and computer designed landing and takeoff ramps, he would have preformed miracles. As it is today, NOBODY has even came close to his jumps. A true icon🇺🇸
Wrong. The 1970s were the pinnacle of motorsports. Only safety has increased like you'd think all of it did. Motorbikes get slower and less powerful. The early 2 stroke 125cc were way faster than today's junk. UK cbt bikes upto 125cc is BS since today's 250cc is like the 125 back when the law was made. The bikes going around Isle of man TT in the 70s vs today's. The 1990s was the true moment for Motorbikes. Big fast one's. 18.000rpm bikes. 200+mph bikes. Emissions and safety ruined it since.
@@AxelFreeDog-ob9fg No, you are wrong, by far. Horsepower is far greater today in ALL engines compared to the past with being cleaner at the same time. Only problem is the higher cost that comes with it. You missed my point about Evel though. I was referring to modern shock designs, suspension components along with computer designed takeoff and landing ramp angles. Something Evel never had, not even close. Speed was never a problem for him.
Evel Knievel's Son Robbie Knievel was really good also.
Not to mention he did this shit on meat n' potatoe Harleys. I wouldn't wanna jump a hog over a match box car, nevermind 20 real ones!
um..... todays bike jumpers have gone WAY further....
Those tiny landing ramps and basically riding a street bike. It is amazing he ever landed without crashing! These guys today aren't doing the same thing Evel was doing. He was truly a dare devil!
It wasn't the landing that got him, it was the crappy suspension reacting to the landing, damn rebound.
Nah guys today just jump more than triple the distance of his furthest jump. I can understand that ol' Evel gets ya wet he was a true madman but there's no reason talking crap about stunts being performed today
@@Harry_Gersack The science and technology is far superior today. With unbalanced and primitive equipment, the gamble was huge. Comparing the eras is silly.
@@peterjohnson1734 Tell this kevinincarolina
Hard to land a bike when it only has 4 inches of travel in the suspension. Evel could have jumped the fountains like Robbie did with today's bikes.💀🇺🇸
Hard to believe he did all that on a 300lb XR750
Yes, a ragdoll with all those heavy bikes with junk suspension
The rebound was ridiculous, as end kickin like a pissed bronco, don't even want to think about how bad the jolt was bottoming out.
He likely wouldn't have landed regardless of the bike. I remember that landing ramp looking terrible. The ramps Travis Pastrana used to jump the fountains where basically perfect. That makes a way bigger difference than the bike.
@@SkadooHusky Definitely alot more calculations in todays stunts than then. 👍
There are probably thousands of kids that broke bones in the name of Evel Knievel. A real-life superhero of the neighborhood kids back in the day.
Yea, when I was 7 or 8, my buddies and I were jumping over eachother on our bikes. You know, schwins and sears roebuck, Jeff laid down and my rather heavy buddy landed on him breaking Jeffs arm. What a surprise, we all got sent different ways and couldn't see eachother for a whole week. Cement blocks and a short piece of 2x 12 was all we needed for a good time.
Love how he pulls all the way up to the end of the ramp at Caesars...stops ...looks at what he's about to do and goes ...this is really gonna hurt ... and then proceeds to crash that landing ...its hilarious.
To this day the world record holder for the most bones broken in a lifetime
Evel is/was a god. The whole reason I still ride dirtbikes today (in my 50s). Thank you Mr. Knievel for all the amazing inspiration.
He exemplified numerous aspects of humanity, and hopefully nobody else will try to duplicate it, he already did it - something about being so hungry for success that he would literally risk his life, he was nuts but I'll always look up to that dude. he create excitement and suspense for so many countless people, including me. Got people's blood flowing, that can't be bad.
Same like so many another jumpers, Stuntmans and climbers
@Josh Traffanstedt well he beat his wife and tried to beat a journalist to death with a baseball bat, then declared bankruptcy when the journalist won a lawsuit so that he wouldn't have to pay. So he was either nuts or a straight up bad person.
He married a 17 year old girl in his 40’s and whooped her ass all the time
@Conway Twitter is funny,criminal violent peoples are hatetby society but if they sre famous, than its ok. Love those hypocrites.
@Conway Twitter literally every woman in the world right now would be better off with a swift quick slap to the face
tuck and roll, man. dang
It's like he goes into ragdoll mode. Did he do that on purpose or accident?
The amount of force is too much for tuck and roll! 🤦🙄
@@wendysw714 what do you know about it, newton?
@@ultrakool 😁
What caused most of his failed jumps just from watching this video is the fact his take off ramps had no transition from ground-ramp. So the bikes “suspension” is compressing then rebounding before he even gets to the lip
Straight up redneck engineering and balls
The man's body sure took a beating. As a kid in the 70's, seeing bravery like that was inspiring. I had the Evel Knievel stunt cycle toy and spent many hours in the basement jumping it over homemade ramps.
He was truly a pioneer, madman, and showman extraordinaire but when you compare his jumps to bike stunts they do these days it's clear Evel wasn't very expert at it. Maybe that was part of his appeal, that "everyman" quality.
This compilation may be the first time I've ever seen Evel NOT crash a jump.
My friend was arrested in Kansas city in the 80s for fighting. The only other person in the holding cell that night was Evel Knievel.
if he had the technology of today he would still be the best! Those motorcycles where not up to task that he was asking of them lol
Nah. Nobody cares about robby.. lol
Im saying . It's a dead sport..
@@famousbowl9926Nobody cares about you.
How that maniac survived all those jumps is beyond me.
I think he broke nearly every bone in his body.
No records back this up, just a possible myth. He most likely broke several bones more than once. But considering it is Evil Knievel I would bet it's probably true lol.
At least once
@@ShaunYarbrough somebody doesn’t get it
40 major bones
He apparently fractured 433 bones. There's only 206 bones in the human body.
It’s crazy. In some of the videos he looks just like the toy reissue I just bought. Legend.
All the light flashes from the cameras when he left the ramp. Sumthin ya don't see anymore. A thing you'd see at any and every event you went to back in the 70s and 80s. Concerts, shows, boxing matches, sports games............To be at some gathering with literally thousands of people snapping pictures simultaneously was a weird thing to see. I miss those days!
Those spills look so painful on pavement but it looked like such fun to me as an 80s kid, when I’d ride my bike as fast as I could down hill, just to intentionally take the most gnarly, tumbling spill I could manage on a grassy yard-trying to imitate dare devils like Evel. Ripped up jeans and skinned knees never made me flinch or slowed me down, just got back up to have another go.
The man had guts, determination, and charisma with talent mixed in. He will always be the best in my book!
Jumping stock Harleys in a fuckin' Elvis jumpsuit; Hell yeah, dude!
I remember him had some of his toys. I liked that he lived his life on his terms and no one elses
This was probably something that a young Johnny Knoxville saw on tv and said to himself "I can top that landings !"
Evel Knievel was an household name amongst rebels like me growing up with a push bike in the early 80's.
I saw Evel jump in 1964 or 65 in Tucson Arizona. I was ten years old. It wasn’t a sanctioned or televised jump, although I read it may have been filmed for a commercial. The jump was done on East Speedway Blvd between Craycroft and Wilmot Roads. I believe he was brought there by Bill Breck Dodge, a local car dealer. He jumped 13 (if my memory serves me correctly) school buses parked side by side and made it perfectly. I really remember his warm up. Speedway was shut down and he rode back and forth a few times sizing everything up then did a wheelie while doing what looked like 90 miles an hour (I was ten 😂) down the street. You gotta remember he was riding a Harley back then, not a motocross bike! 👍🏼😎
Back when people would react to stuff
Not even a 50% success rate. GOAT!
When I was around 10, I was the only person in my class that hadn't seen Evel Knievel. I walked to downtown so I could watch it. It was 1974 and had been out for 3 years.
The 60's and 70's was wide world of sports. Evil Knevil created fearless excitement for some.
A song that goes thru my head every time I watch him is...KICK START MY HEART !
he must be one of the craziest dudes that ever lived
8 Year old me was at Wembley. Still remember it vividly. Fucking Legend.
The. XR-750 is the ONLY H-D bike that I find attractive. Love the upward dual pipes!
I remember my wind up Evel motorcycle with Evel action figure. Mehn those were good times. I salute you Evel. 🤟
With the bikes he used, he may as well have been trying to jump a tank. They were heavy with lousy suspension. It's a miracle he ever stuck a landing at all.
imagine if he had the technology of bikes today
true, but i feel like he had a better audience for his time
@@ashuhhhlee1509 "If had the one of these bike the kids have today I would have jumped over the moon" ~EK 2000s
Just because you have no fear doesn't mean your good at it!😎
The grates man to ever live
I once tried a similar stunt on my Raleigh Chopper as a child in the 80’s on a building site ... scaffolding plank up a pile of sand and over a least 10 breeze blocks and a traffic cone ... was epic .. but like our hero the landing wasn’t too clever and I bust my lip open and snapped my Wham Bar in my pocket ✊🏼✊🏾
Why the different colored fists?
@@ADrunkCrayfish why not
@Kra Gle I miss my green metallic chopper with the sissy bar, banana seat and the rear slick. So much blood was spilled riding that thing.
Similar results on my banana seat jumping ten big wheels. I got trashed.
We used to read about EK in our history books as Kids...dude is a legend!!
He's crazy and doesn't fear pain and death !!!
I saw him jump as a kid, 1971 Yakima speedway😊
I was in Butte, Montana a couple months ago and stopped by Evel’s grave to say hi.
He must have had the strongest TAINT in the galaxy . At least the most durable
I have to be honest, the crash at Cearsars Palace, looked like it might have hurt.
Yeah maybe a little
But from what I learned on the past gas podcast by donut media, he did jump again
What a massive hero of mine.A true icon.
Evil Knievel had broken his bones 433 times! That's almost double the bones in our bodies. Damn could you imagine the pain? I have broken around 4 or 5 bones and it was almost all pretty bad except for a couple.😲
I guess nobody ever told him " hey Evil,, this job aint for you."
I've got a 1200 xlh that has gotten me through some hectic situations. I chose it because it was the closest bike I could find like evils bike
After Evel had a run in with the Hells Angels everyone thought it was a bad idea going through with the jump. Evel had a terrible crash and said, “What did you want me to do, give ‘em back their money?”
My super hero of the 1970s.
Talk about getting back on that horse.
I can’t stop laughing at the 0:44 crash. It’s only funny until someone gets hurt, then it’s hilarious.
If there'd never been an Evel Knievel, we'd never have had a Lance Murdock or a Super Dave Osborne.
This is not all of Evel's jumps, his last successful jump was in Seattle, WA. 1976 over only 7 buses... His last attempted jump was Chicago, IL over a pool of sharks which ended in a failed practice jump, Jan. 31, 1977.
That was my 11th Birthday 🎂 When I blew out my candles, my wish was he would be eaten by the sharks! 🦈🦈 😀👍
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The real origin of jumping the shark, copied later that year on TV series Happy Days by Fonzie
I think no heard Robbie say one time that his dad did around 300 jumps in his career.
MORE GUTS THAN MOST
Wrong machine, had he had a modern day motocross bike he may have never crashed. Unfortunately machines like that were decades away. His son proved that. Nevertheless, he was ultimate the showman and a very brave man..RIP Evel..
A MAN WITH NO FEAR. A REAL MAN
433 broken bones in all his carrer
No lie?
@@matthewcasing7329 yeah, I swear
@@BlackRose.... your so full of shit
@@dpurplefox According to the Guinness Book of World records he did break 433 bones in his body. It is possibly a myth that he broke every bone in his body since there is no record. It is in all likelihood that he broke several bones multiple times and even his metal replacements adding up to 433 times.
That Caesars palace jump in slo-mo makes me feel my bones breaking every time I see it 😂
He was a pioneer, revolutionary
The cool thing about Evel Knievel jumping was the crash. He crashed often and when he did it was spectacular.
But its sad, the Fans want saw him jumping, today we have the same sensations in our society.
I had about as many EK toys as he had wrecks
Ahhh, memories of childhood and the toys.
His jump at Vegas , and his jump at England, same thing..
Dude the 3rd one with the down ramp was a recipe for disaster which the end part was way to short so it was a very hefty change of crashing
Those slow motion crash sections....apparently the bike is pissed off at the indignity of being wrecked, and doing everything in its power to chase him down and murder the hell outta him.
It'l like they knew nothing about physics or engineering back then.
that's y the man had the biggest balls in history .
Just amazing how poorly designed the whole set up was.
Well, they landed a number of capsules on the moon and brought them back to earth safely back then. It just seems Knievel didn't care for engineering and basic physics.
@@saschamaj Moon landing is so fake🤣
Maaan.when I was a kid he was the Man. He was the master showman. Remember my hands would sweat waiting for him to jump.We made ramps and would jump out bicycles. The bikes he used were heavy with hardly no suspension which made it even more dangerous. GOD BLESS Evel and Robbie.
Evel was great, but Robbie came along and successfully completed every jump that Evel failed at. Evel Knievel's biggest problem was jumping that heavy ass Harley 750. Evel was my childhood hero though! I had every Evel Knievel toy and accessory that they made.
The craziest thing is the huge heavy bike he used to jump with. Looks like it literally weighed a ton.
LEGEND , much respect mr x
Is the clip at 0:15 at Madison square garden ?
No wonder my brother and I thought Evel Knievel was awesome when we saw his stunts back in the day. He was amazing!
I am thankful to grow up in an era when my heroes were people like Evil Knievel, Roger Staubach, and the fictional character Steve Austin. Real men that risked life and limb to make an impression. Young boys today don’t have any real heroes to look up to today except social media influencers and rap stars.
okay boomer
@@american_psycho1147 Damn right.
@@Randy.E.R I’m right there with you brother! I was Born in the 1960’s. I watched, admired and emulated all the great men from that era! We didn’t have soyboys back in those days, like so many of these emasculated effeminate so called men today!
Yeah. Steve Austin is a real man. Okay boomer. So is Peter Parker.
@@johngalush8790 Apparently you can’t read. I wrote “and the fictional character Steve Austin”. But its all good. I went to school when they were still teaching reading comprehension. One of the beauties of being a Boomer. 👍
Legend... did you have the toy ...?
Cool video, what's the name of this awesome song?
Doesn't matter how many times you crash ...it's the times that you can walk out alive and start again.
Evel Knievel was my hero as a kid. He made me want to be a stuntman. (lessons were to expensive) To think he took these jump without much more than his Elvis style outfits. No real padding. He was an animal and as tough as nails.
The crash at Wimply gets a “10” for style.
How did this man of old age?🤔miss you Bobby!
Balls of steel!,simple as that🤘
Just wingin it
The SADDEST part of EVILS wreaks are the SUSPENSION (OR LACK OF) on his BIKES!Even having a MOTORCROSS BIKE I HIT SOME NARLY ASS JUMPS and the IMPACTED of the LANDING because I USED UP ALL THE SHOCKS rips you OFF the BIKE and THAN the SHIT GETS REAL!!!
Sweet compilation, dude! What's the songname, by the way? Edit: nevermind; it's Ethan Meixsell - Thor's Hammer