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| | | | Evel Knievel passed away |  Written: 2007/12/04 : 11:49. Read 8780 times (144/day). | Evel lived a dangerous life. This motorcycle daredevil made some of the most fabulous motorcycle stunts. He was an international star in the 70's.
He was 69.
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But the motorycle never killed him. At least not directly.
He was suffering from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis.
He also nearly died of hepatitis C, likely contracted through a blood transfusion after one of his many spills: he was cured with a liver transplant in 99. Not to mention two strokes a few years ago, and about forty bones broken because of his stunts...
The America’s Legendary Daredevil who formed in 1965 the EvelKnievel’s Motorcycle Daredevils troup was best know for some failed stunts:
- on New Year’s Day 1968 in Las Vegas, he was nearly killed (in coma for a month) after a crash while trying to jump 151 feet (46 meters) across the fountains in front of Caesar’s Palace.
- a failed attempt on September 8, 1974, to jump the Snake River Canyon in Idaho in a rocket–powered ’’Skycycle.’’
His parachute deployed after takeoff and the wind blew the bike into the canyon, landing him close to the swirling river below. His son Robbie Knievel successfully jumped this canyon in April 1989.
Evel Knievel retired after a serious injury in 1976.... he tried to jump a tank full of live sharks in the Chicago Amphitheater, and things went wrong...
Many of his records have been broken by daredevil motorcyclist Bubba Blackwell.
Rest in Peace crazy man.
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