Evel Knievel died in Nov 30, 2007, but his legacy of doing idiotic stunts that leave you in a body cast lives on. His son, Robbie Knievel, is also an accomplished motorbike stunt driver. Robbie Knievel has announced plans to jump over 24 trucks at King’s Island on May 24 2008.

Like father, like son. I guess he’s getting too much use out of his spine and wants it gone. It was cool growing up with Evel Knievel and all, but after you’ve seen Jackass a few hundred times, you kind of lose your will to watch yet another barely upright simian wreck on a bike.

Plus, look at the pic. This guy is Evel Knievel’s SON and he looks like some random OLD guy. I wouldn’t let a random old guy on my block jump over my shit.
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This time into the great unknown. According to TMZ, his granddaughter is saying that the daredevil has died.

He has been fighting a health battle for years and suffered from diabetes as well as a disease that left scarring on his lungs. In 1999 he almost died from Hepatitis, undergoing a liver transplant. It’s thought that he got the disease from a blood transfusion. That, following one of his famous wipe outs.

He was a fixture of the 70’s and 80’s in his red white and blue jumpsuits. There truly has never been another thrill-seeker like him and no other daredevil has been willing to push the boundaries, risking life and limb, the way he did.

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