Evel Knievel

[andy at handiwork]

RIP

[algarve addick]

he was hopeless.
the muppet.

[James not Bond]

When I was a kid I watched him do a jump on the telly.

I thought it was great. I went outside, saw an older guys motorbike, a Jawa CZ, started it up and pranged straight into a wall.

Jimmy, if are reading this, blame Evel Knievel, not me.

He never found out who wrecked his bike.

In my defence I was only 12.

[Arginald Valleywater]

And does anyone give a monkeys toss? A complete fraud and got paid millions to fail almost every time. Hang on that was Steve McLaren.

[Ace]

I loved the corrupt fucker! I sat glued to the TV watching his jumps. Eddie Kidd was better, but Evel was the first.
I nagged my parents for the Palitoy model for Christmas in 1975 where Evel 'flies through the air' and after we got bored of playing with it on Boxing Day, we put Evel through his paces with a MASSIVE NEVER DONE BEFORE JUMP where he left the roof of the 20 storey apartment block where we lived in Hong Kong to the next block, some 30 metres away.


Evel failed............miserably.



I saw one of these toys on ebay at a small fortune, you can double it now he's gone.

[The Last Word]

Wonder if they'll fire the coffin over a row of buses? Surely it's what he would've wanted.

Various interview clips on the news yesterday. He may have been handy with the wheels, but he didn't half talk shite.

[Sam Slater]

People always say I look like Eddie Kidd.

Here's Eddie:
[img]http://www.eddiekidd.com/photolrg/eight ... 8-1202.jpg[/img]

Here's me:
[img]http://www.eddiekidd.com/photolrg/eight ... 8-1201.jpg[/img]

I can't see the resemblance myself.

[Nob3y]

The world needs more heros like Evel.
All this health and safety bollocks can fuck off !!

We need more people like him to do the imposable and totaly stupid things in life.

[Pervert]

You have similar taste in women, I see