Evel Knievel died

Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died tonight. He was 69.
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i used to have one of those evel toys, you know the red wind up ones that you could get to jump over shit
like this but better cause it was built in the seventies like me
http://www.menkind.co.uk/ProductDetailsHori.asp?ProductID=12973&gclid=CI3pyuvshpACFQxKQgod3EldtA

I'm pretty sure I fell in love with motorbikes watching evel and his english disciple eddie kidd jumping buses when i was a wee 'un
I'm going to go out and buy one of these helmets in the new year in honour of the evel one, and possibly a white leather bike jacket as well to top it off
http://www.openfacehelmets.co.uk/productinfo.aspx?productid=101

I'm now off to go and build a shrine in honour of my hero.

Poor fellah.

Sad day, total childhood hero... :(

cornelius blackfoot i used to have one of those evel toys, you know the red wind up ones that you could get to jump over shit
like this but better cause it was built in the seventies like me
http://www.menkind.co.uk/ProductDetailsHori.asp?ProductID=12973&gclid=CI3pyuvshpACFQxKQgod3EldtA

I'm pretty sure I fell in love with motorbikes watching evel and his english disciple eddie kidd jumping buses when i was a wee 'un
I'm going to go out and buy one of these helmets in the new year in honour of the evel one, and possibly a white leather bike jacket as well to top it off
http://www.openfacehelmets.co.uk/productinfo.aspx?productid=101

I'm now off to go and build a shrine in honour of my hero.

I had one of those wind up things....brilliant.
R.I.P

Did you ever see that film he "acted" in? It was shit.