I grew up with him as my hero. At 60 years old now I still call him my hero. With the shocks they have on bikes today makes his jumps seem rather mundane for Dare Devils these days but he didn’t have those shocks back then he felt every landing, he did it the hard way. We tried to copy him and we never gave it a second thought that we weren’t doing it with helmets or leathers all we had was our banana seat and our sissy bars.
Evel was a legend in his own time. Quickest way to start a fight with me is say something disparaging about Evel Knievel. You have to respect a man so driven and fearless.
I watched him jump 16 stegmair beer trucks wilks barre pa in 1967 and got his autograph on a 20 dollar bill after the jumped he cleared all of them i remeber it like yesterday what a memory
Great video, seems no one ever looks at the man behind the white leathers. He was NOT a nice person, or a good father, and he was a lousy husband. The two facts that are incorrect in the video are 1) he was never in a 29 day coma after his crash at Caesars's Palace (it was a made up story by Evel and Jay Sarno), and 2) he didn't break ANYWHERE near 500 bones. He broke ~35 bones in his body, with multiple fractures on some of those bones over the years. And he always claimed that he was "in the hospital for over three years" of his career....if you go back and looks at the dates of all of his jumps, this is total BS. There was a LOT of BS in the Evel Knievel story.
The book Evel on tour was factual, just not the facts with the EK Spin & Spin. That is why the author had his arms broken and EK received a 6 month jail sentence. I am a EK fan but facts need to be separated from legend.
That was just a tip of an iceberg, there is bunch of other shitty stuff he did on a top of that... People like legends, people like to have heroes and as they say, sometimes it is better to not meet your heroes, I remember reading Top Gear magazine, Richard Hammond met him not that long before his death, just to make an interview with him, he were his hero as well, and based on the quite polished and vanila article he was not quite happy with the who the actual guy was.
You neglected to mention his conversion to Jesus Christ towards the end of his life. This was a major turning point for the man and you should have mentioned it.
Grunge isnt an evangelical nor a Christian RUclips channel.. but for those who know they know most media dont really mention the private religious life its the same here man
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If your talking about Ceasars crash , yes about 35 To 40 but in a career/lifetime Guiness has it at 433 bone fractures. As he holds this one record which may never be broken by anybody.
The ceasers palace jump was all wrong ..... When I look at the jump level Knievel landed just short of the landing ramp .... When he landed the back of the bike kicked Robert off the back of the bike 🚲 plus the speed of the bike was off ie not enough speed other's tried the same jump but failed badly but evel will forever be remembered as the last of the gladiators.... Rest in peace evel Knievel...Robert Craig Knievel ✨👍
@@Tiffany.1970 not only that , consider the fact that he never used a speedometer , he just used instinct but tragically wrong many times but always on a heavy Harley. I met him once and he was hardcore but true to his word and that is what caused him to commit on even the most dangerous jumps.
Chances are he never did. But we don’t know what buttons to push to play video games today..THANK GOD..lol We are the last generation that actually went outside knocked our buddies front door and went out for the whole day until it got dark and nobody knew where we were or what we were doing.
I wouldn’t exactly call his life “tragic”. He had early life hardship and died of illness as most of us will. Suffering he experienced in between was of his own doing and he said himself, “I don’t regret a damn thing.”
I was four years old in 1972 and I was crazy about Evel Knievel. One evening I struggled and took my tricycle to the stairs and attempted to ride down the stairs alas I ended up straight in hospital with a broken arm . Evel Knievel will never be forgotten !
My first broken arm was a failed physics stunt where I found I can't float down to the ground from my 2nd story bedroom window with a umbrella like The Penguin.... lmao.
@@DaveSCameron It sure did. I was always reminded by my parents that I never walked the line they’d say to each other Johnny Cash walked the line but our son walks the knife edge . 😂😭😭😭😂
We didn't have the internet back then so, you know, he got away with more than he would now. I'm disappointed to learn that he treated his wife so badly. He was a hero back when I was a child. I can't respect a person who harms others when they can avoid it. Anyway, he aged very poorly. He looked much older than 69 there at the end.
The 70s deffinitly belonged to evil!! Good memories! Ill never forget the snake River jump! Frickin timeless. I think some toy company came out with a model or diecast of that X2 rocket....Kinda makes you feel sorry for the kids today...they don't really have any role model to look up to like we did back then...
I agree. We had Muhammad Ali, oj Simpson ( although he turned bad later,) John Wayne and Clint Eastwood.great times. I also claim we had real music compared to today's music.
The only craziest Insane Inhuman Elephant balls Evil who can jump with a Harley with no suspension and no pads and just helmet that no one can match up these days. He just didnt care or was scared of pain which made him a legend forever and embracing God at the end makes him a true patriot and Superman on this planet. Rest In Peace Evel. We all still miss you to this day. 3/2 22.
Yeah he was big when I was a kid and I thought he was pretty cool/crazy with his stunts and his motorcycle gear. However, I'm a lot older now and while I can appreciate what he did in his career as a stunt motorcyclist I have to separate that from his abusive treatment of his wives and kids. I think being a sociopath definitely helped him do his jumps, because most seem to lack that fear the rest of us have, but most sociopaths are abusers in relationships. Plus the schemes to defraud and I would say he was a sociopath. It all makes sense now as well as the addictions.
He was probably a sociopath which is why he could do those jumps but also beat his wives and kids. Narcissists and sociopaths make up 10-15% of the population. No shortage of these types around. Most domestic abusers fall into this category.
Makes sense that evil liked to jump huge spaces as Butte is a gigantic hole. You drive down to get to Butte. Super cool city built in a huge crater. Got my first ticket at 15 wanting to drive my scooter on a rather narrow sea wall. Foolish for sure. Children do stupid things like that when they're trying to emulate a perceived "hero."
They must not of hered about jeff jeff was there as a kid and he had a jump over two chopper we went in jump them . From jeff meadows he was a good dad for me
@@stevestarr9769 it didn’t matter he was still our hero we lived in the days where people mind their own damn business we’d be better off if it were like that today
@@TinCupChalice40 Hey, if you're emotionally stuck at 12 years old, good for you. As for people "minding their own business"...so the fact that Evel was abusive to his wife and kids and treated basically everyone in his life like shit should never have been mentioned? Again---if you're permanently stuck at being 12 years old, congrats. ADULTS can look at Robert Craig Knievel and call it like it was.
@@TinCupChalice40 Yeah, back when men could beat their woman and children with out people butting their nose into it. Ah, the good old days! Just to let everyone know, I'm joking.
My wife and I did and we were very successful raising our three great children. And we were middleclass parents without personal assistants or live-in nannies, maids or house keepers. Every one of our children was planned to the month and we did not have one child until we were 32 years of age. And hopefully my sons follow suit. To me, having children later in life kept us young and kept our wheels in motion, Having children later never slowed us down.
No. He had fractures of ~35 bones in his body (some bones fractured a couple of times) but NOWHERE near 100 bones in his body. A lot of his story was made up BS.
Abc my know but this guy telling want he knows not me abc my have old copy if it i was sorry to here he pass away they fixed him as mush as they had just did not fix a last , live to ride ride to live!
I think he might of meant the end when he got a transfusion which had hepatitis C which declined his life after wards but I agree with you. He had a fantastic life no matter what. Evel was Evel one of a kind bro.
What can I say? What a draw, what a show, and his timing for the ascent of his career was impeccable. A few short appearances on Wide World of Sports and who knew? ABC was certainly the first to find out by audience response. In the later years of his life, I thought it was soooo ironic to read a newspaper article of where he was pleading for a liver transplant. I guess the idea of death was a jump too far for Evel.
he went through a radical life changing event that promptly change his life and he saved many lives through his baptism in his church... so in life he was maybe a lowlife loser but his later years he went on with Christ close to 500 to 800 people got saved on that day
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Rest In Peace Evel Knievel.
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Rest in pieces worthless piece of crap😢
October 17 1938-November 30 2007
what an awful guy
I grew up with him as my hero. At 60 years old now I still call him my hero. With the shocks they have on bikes today makes his jumps seem rather mundane for Dare Devils these days but he didn’t have those shocks back then he felt every landing, he did it the hard way. We tried to copy him and we never gave it a second thought that we weren’t doing it with helmets or leathers all we had was our banana seat and our sissy bars.
How far were you jumping at the time? Bet it wasn't over the grand canyon 😝🤣
@@hman2912 …na, just ramp to ramp sometimes the lessor smart of us would lay down in the middle of the ramps. Lol. We had a great time.
I remember seeing him as a kid at Ascott Raceway in Carson jump over some buses. The crowd went crazy.
Evel was a legend in his own time. Quickest way to start a fight with me is say something disparaging about Evel Knievel. You have to respect a man so driven and fearless.
Yeah, I'd never criticize a man who beat his wife.....
He's a wife beater dude. That's no kinda man.
@@bdidbwvolume2.230 and today we have the same criminals but the criminals today are not seen as a hero
@@borntoclimb7116 Exactly. Nor should they be.
@@bdidbwvolume2.230 but the society is hypocrite, famous violence persons are "good" and normalos are bad
I watched him jump 16 stegmair beer trucks wilks barre pa in 1967 and got his autograph on a 20 dollar bill after the jumped he cleared all of them i remeber it like yesterday what a memory
Great video, seems no one ever looks at the man behind the white leathers. He was NOT a nice person, or a good father, and he was a lousy husband. The two facts that are incorrect in the video are 1) he was never in a 29 day coma after his crash at Caesars's Palace (it was a made up story by Evel and Jay Sarno), and 2) he didn't break ANYWHERE near 500 bones. He broke ~35 bones in his body, with multiple fractures on some of those bones over the years. And he always claimed that he was "in the hospital for over three years" of his career....if you go back and looks at the dates of all of his jumps, this is total BS. There was a LOT of BS in the Evel Knievel story.
The book Evel on tour was factual, just not the facts with the EK Spin & Spin. That is why the author had his arms broken and EK received a 6 month jail sentence. I am a EK fan but facts need to be separated from legend.
RIP to Robbie Knievel.
It was 68 when it didn't work untill then it did I move on in 68
So beating your wife makes you evil ¿
That was just a tip of an iceberg, there is bunch of other shitty stuff he did on a top of that... People like legends, people like to have heroes and as they say, sometimes it is better to not meet your heroes, I remember reading Top Gear magazine, Richard Hammond met him not that long before his death, just to make an interview with him, he were his hero as well, and based on the quite polished and vanila article he was not quite happy with the who the actual guy was.
He wanted to be a legend and he became one. What's tragic about that ?
Best of the best
he was not in a coma for weeks after the Caesar's Palace jump. Total BS.
You neglected to mention his conversion to Jesus Christ towards the end of his life. This was a major turning point for the man and you should have mentioned it.
Grunge isnt an evangelical nor a Christian RUclips channel.. but for those who know they know most media dont really mention the private religious life its the same here man
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EVEL IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE MY HERO. I Have so many fond memories of my Evel Bicycle and the scars to prove it still to this day.
We mimicked his stunts on our BMXs like demons in Birkenhead Park ❤️🙏😊
@@DaveSCameron Yeah, Evel has a way of making us all a little too brave......
Same...
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@@Johnny2Bags47 Emphasis on myth.
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WE ADORED THIS FELLA AS A KID IN 1970S ENGLAND, I HAD HIS DOLL/BIKE/WIND-UP MECHANISM AND LOVED IT. #HEROES
He did not break 433 bones. He said it was closer to 35. His son confirmed it and said it was about 35-40.
If your talking about Ceasars crash , yes about 35 To 40 but in a career/lifetime Guiness has it at 433 bone fractures. As he holds this one record which may never be broken by anybody.
The ceasers palace jump was all wrong ..... When I look at the jump level Knievel landed just short of the landing ramp .... When he landed the back of the bike kicked Robert off the back of the bike 🚲 plus the speed of the bike was off ie not enough speed other's tried the same jump but failed badly but evel will forever be remembered as the last of the gladiators.... Rest in peace evel Knievel...Robert Craig Knievel ✨👍
@@Tiffany.1970 not only that , consider the fact that he never used a speedometer , he just used instinct but tragically wrong many times but always on a heavy Harley. I met him once and he was hardcore but true to his word and that is what caused him to commit on even the most dangerous jumps.
Only thing I took away from this is he’s a woman beater
This guy sounds like he never heard of Evel until someone gave him this script to read.
Chances are he never did. But we don’t know what buttons to push to play video games today..THANK GOD..lol
We are the last generation that actually went outside knocked our buddies front door and went out for the whole day until it got dark and nobody knew where we were or what we were doing.
I wouldn’t exactly call his life “tragic”.
He had early life hardship and died of illness as most of us will. Suffering he experienced in between was of his own doing and he said himself, “I don’t regret a damn thing.”
I was four years old in 1972 and I was crazy about Evel Knievel. One evening I struggled and took my tricycle to the stairs and attempted to ride down the stairs alas I ended up straight in hospital with a broken arm . Evel Knievel will never be forgotten !
Me too yes 🙏
My first broken arm was a failed physics stunt where I found I can't float down to the ground from my 2nd story bedroom window with a umbrella like The Penguin.... lmao.
@@DaveSCameron I guess I was very impressionable at a young age, hell yeah I sure was at four years old ! 😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@bobcosmic Life seemed infinite didn't it my friend 🙏 😉
@@DaveSCameron It sure did. I was always reminded by my parents that I never walked the line they’d say to each other Johnny Cash walked the line but our son walks the knife edge . 😂😭😭😭😂
We didn't have the internet back then so, you know, he got away with more than he would now. I'm disappointed to learn that he treated his wife so badly. He was a hero back when I was a child. I can't respect a person who harms others when they can avoid it. Anyway, he aged very poorly. He looked much older than 69 there at the end.
He was a customer of mine at a fancy resort. He spent his days hustling rich golfers.
Did he ride the Harley on the gulf course,,,,,,,,,,,,
The 70s deffinitly belonged to evil!! Good memories! Ill never forget the snake River jump! Frickin timeless. I think some toy company came out with a model or diecast of that X2 rocket....Kinda makes you feel sorry for the kids today...they don't really have any role model to look up to like we did back then...
Yeah, if only kids had more whitebeating alcoholic role models...
Yeah, if only kids had more whitebeating alcoholic role models...
I agree. We had Muhammad Ali, oj Simpson ( although he turned bad later,) John Wayne and Clint Eastwood.great times. I also claim we had real music compared to today's music.
@@Greg-zr2pf NO QUESTION
My Grandpa worked with him on his Harleys when he was 19 said sickest guy ever
What was your grandpa sick from ...
One of My Favorite CHRISTmas Presents was Evel Knievel's Wind Up Stunt Cycle.
The only craziest Insane Inhuman Elephant balls Evil who can jump with a Harley with no suspension and no pads and just helmet that no one can match up these days. He just didnt care or was scared of pain which made him a legend forever and embracing God at the end makes him a true patriot and Superman on this planet. Rest In Peace Evel. We all still miss you to this day. 3/2 22.
The 70s were the coolest decade ever. We had the best of everything.
Well said . I kind of wish the 70s lasted 40 more years like it was when we were teens. It was the best era ever.
Evel Knievel
The original balls of steel💪
RIP Evel 🙏
The troops that went to Vietnam had slightly bigger balls....throw in the soldiers that fought in Korea.
Yeah he was big when I was a kid and I thought he was pretty cool/crazy with his stunts and his motorcycle gear. However, I'm a lot older now and while I can appreciate what he did in his career as a stunt motorcyclist I have to separate that from his abusive treatment of his wives and kids. I think being a sociopath definitely helped him do his jumps, because most seem to lack that fear the rest of us have, but most sociopaths are abusers in relationships. Plus the schemes to defraud and I would say he was a sociopath. It all makes sense now as well as the addictions.
From another hometown Butte girl!! He was a big ass^*":...
He was probably a sociopath which is why he could do those jumps but also beat his wives and kids. Narcissists and sociopaths make up 10-15% of the population. No shortage of these types around. Most domestic abusers fall into this category.
Makes sense that evil liked to jump huge spaces as Butte is a gigantic hole. You drive down to get to Butte. Super cool city built in a huge crater. Got my first ticket at 15 wanting to drive my scooter on a rather narrow sea wall. Foolish for sure. Children do stupid things like that when they're trying to emulate a perceived "hero."
He was cool until I heard “ He married a 17 year old” like damn bro was a straight pedo
They must not of hered about jeff jeff was there as a kid and he had a jump over two chopper we went in jump them . From jeff meadows he was a good dad for me
Sounds like Evel was indeed EVIL!! He was a trailblazer but, beating women... NEVER COOL!
He was a hero to 12 year-old boys for 30 minutes on Saturday afternoons on Wide World of Sports, and a pretty lousy person the rest of the time.
@@stevestarr9769 it didn’t matter he was still our hero we lived in the days where people mind their own damn business we’d be better off if it were like that today
@@TinCupChalice40 Hey, if you're emotionally stuck at 12 years old, good for you. As for people "minding their own business"...so the fact that Evel was abusive to his wife and kids and treated basically everyone in his life like shit should never have been mentioned? Again---if you're permanently stuck at being 12 years old, congrats. ADULTS can look at Robert Craig Knievel and call it like it was.
You should never hit a woman only if she really really needs it ...
@@TinCupChalice40 Yeah, back when men could beat their woman and children with out people butting their nose into it. Ah, the good old days!
Just to let everyone know, I'm joking.
Insane to try and jump a Harley Davidson.
My Dad grew up with Robert...Bobby.
Sadly some of us never do. 🙏
I had all the toys,in the early 70's.wish I kept them.
His heart is pretty much the only thing he didn’t break
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It was my dad evel kenivil the fonz where the role models of the 70s for me 🤘
What late 40 year olds can't raise kids?
My wife and I did and we were very successful raising our three great children. And we were middleclass parents without personal assistants or live-in nannies, maids or house keepers.
Every one of our children was planned to the month and we did not have one child until we were 32 years of age. And hopefully my sons follow suit. To me, having children later in life kept us young and kept our wheels in motion, Having children later never slowed us down.
@10:13. didnt he know that the pinky and forefinger is the sign the the devil? i wager he is not in a good place right now and not resting in peace...
From what I've heard about evel he broken over a 100 bones in his body
So half of them
No. He had fractures of ~35 bones in his body (some bones fractured a couple of times) but NOWHERE near 100 bones in his body. A lot of his story was made up BS.
HE WAS A LEGEND WE STAYED UP TO WATCH HIS STUNTS 😀
Abc my know but this guy telling want he knows not me abc my have old copy if it i was sorry to here he pass away they fixed him as mush as they had just did not fix a last , live to ride ride to live!
how can it be a heartbreaking story he had good life !
I think he might of meant the end when he got a transfusion which had hepatitis C which declined his life after wards but I agree with you. He had a fantastic life no matter what. Evel was Evel one of a kind bro.
It was heartbreaking to hear how he treated his wife.
@@lorimiller4301 NO ...
I remember watching Evel back in the 70s and very early 80s
He wasn't jumping in the 80s
Actually I dont think he even jumped in 76
433
Baseball bat, yikes! 😳 😬 😱
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I liked it so much more when wee didn't see the presenters face and just heard his voice.
I agree. Isn't that strange ?
His name was pronounced ,"evel" .. he didn't want to be called evil... Wiki....
I love your well presented channel, for its not ruin with commercials.
Thank God he found Jesus at the end of his life
its a shocker on how many people came to Christ after Robert's baptism that earns a respect in my book
My knee destroying me every time i watch this man
Rip legend
Evil was an icon when I was a kid
Robert Craig Knievel a true showman and a man of courage who lived life to the full ..😎🤩😍👍👍👍
What can I say? What a draw, what a show, and his timing for the ascent of his career was impeccable. A few short appearances on Wide World of Sports and who knew? ABC was certainly the first to find out by audience response.
In the later years of his life, I thought it was soooo ironic to read a newspaper article of where he was pleading for a liver transplant. I guess the idea of death was a jump too far for Evel.
Nothing heartbreaking here, maybe some neckbreaking.. he was a lowlife loser and deserved all the pain he went through 😢
You forgot to add that he was a awful womanizer as well.
And let not forget how he beat a reporter with a baseball bat.
The guy was an asshole.
Oh yah and he was a drunk as well.
he went through a radical life changing event that promptly change his life and he saved many lives through his baptism in his church... so in life he was maybe a lowlife loser but his later years he went on with Christ close to 500 to 800 people got saved on that day