Evel Knievel’s last jump…
69-year-old Evel Knievel died Friday, November 30 in Clearwater, Florida (United States). After having taunted death all his career on his motorcycles, the American stuntman was finally swept away by pulmonary fibrosis…
A real American star has passed away: Evel Knievel died last Friday from pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 69. A relatively young age for an American … but unexpected for this stuntman that his compatriots nicknamed "Daredevil", literally the daredevil…
Indeed from the mid-1960s, this native of Montana had made a specialty of jumping high and far with his motorcycles, but also of breaking his bones: thirty-eight it seems. !
Performing longer and longer jumps, including one over 13 London buses at Wembley Stadium, Evel made a jump that will go down in the annals: on January 1, 1968 the American tries to cross the 46 meters of the casino fountain Caesars Palace in Las Vegas…
Too short by a few centimeters, Knievel loses control of his motorcycle! Appraisal: fracture of the skull, pelvis, legs, arm and a month of coma. But that’s why America and much of the world love him: he always gets up and goes !
Thus in 1974, he was illustrated by trying to cross over the Snake River canyon in Idaho on the handlebars – or rather "on board" – of a motorcycle propelled by a jet engine … An attempt that resulted in another failure and further injuries as his parachute opened prematurely.
"I don’t like the term hero", he delivered on his official website."I was good at riding a motorcycle and quite a good businessman but not a hero". Either way, Evel Knievel is indeed part of the motorcycle legend. !
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