100% agreed. I remember vividly one Christmas morning seem like all the neighborhood kids got Evil Knievel stunt cycles when we where kids. What an awesome memory. Evil Knievel had “God” status in our neighborhood as kids.
1974 was a great year to be a 10 year old boy in a small town... E.K was my hero even though he didn't make the canyon. For those of you "non-Boomers", you truly lost out on such a great country to grow up in. Wacky stickers, Mad magazine, Fonzi, SWAT,MASH, All In The Family, etc....a time when people could laugh at each other and themselves.
Hey now. I'm not a boomer and I remember E.K. I remember wide world of sports and him jumping some canyon. I liked him back then. Then many years later I was, ... What the hell? Funny how most those childhood heros turned out to be puts. Fonz really a geek E K. A creep. But he did have major balls. Anyone that could hurt himself so much just to collect big insurance checks has some mental issues. The only one that really was good was Clint Eastwood.
I was 16 in 74 and it was a really fun time to have grown up in the 60's and 70's. Kids today missed out on a lot of great things, great music and great people.
In 70s early 80s my Evil Knievel Stunt Cycle Toy was best toy i ever had!! Crank handle on the side as fast you can get it. Release cycle and it took off. Use anything as a ramp. Cycle land and kept going.
Great toy! Indestructible. We used to jump ours off the garage roof. It would land in the driveway and keep going! My little sister had the girl version called Dary Daring. Fun times.
T P, I've got a 1966 Schwinn Stingray in my garage. Bought it to do my paper route when I was 11. It was 54 dollars when I originally bought it. How much will you give me for it?? hahaha. :)
i had the trike ... one of the funest toys a can remember.. use to ride it down the hill we lived on and spin out at the bottom.. no helmet, pads or any of that sissy shit todays kids wear !!!
I can remember when a kid did that, he wiped out with blood everywhere and an ambulance had to come scoop him up. Here's the deal, stupid. If your kid breaks his arm or gets a concussion and you don't have insurance, it's ten grand right away. Why? Because fools let our country be swindled out of health care by the wealthy. "That's socialism!" It's considerate the thieves gave them something comforting to say after they were robbed.
Lol, I'm replying to an 8 year old comment, but it reminded me of this weird old English trike my family had. It looked like it was right out of Mary Poppins. It had chain drive, fixed gears (no ratcheting mechanism(!)), hard rubber tires and no brakes. We had a hill in our neighborhood, and every kid who rode the trike down the hill would end up with skinned knees at the bottom. That was a lot of us.
I had one of those bikes around 76-77... the single gear kind with the pedal brake, not the one he's riding. It was heavy as heck, and I could barely keep up with friends on lighter, cheaper, no-brand bikes. Once they built a dirt ramp over a hole, and everyone was jumping it. I tried, and my front wheel went right in the whole and I ate a facefull of dirt on the other side. GREAT F**KING TIMES!
Alright, that’s perfectly insane and I idolized the guy. I couldn’t tell the difference between the stuntman vs any comic book hero as a ruddy kid. Thanks
@@StupidEarthlings haha good question, I never knew who took it! It was chained to our wrought iron porch railing & the chain was cut! Reckon they wanted that bike more than I did
I can get it if someone still had one from their childhood, but why would anyone pay big bucks for one now? It's not like you are going to set up some ramps and start jumping with it. These were just AMF bikes, probably some of the most low end bikes that that ever existed. Then again, people pay 4 grand a head for the ultimate Kiss experience.
@@kennethsouthard6042 that is true about KISS & I was a huge fan of them in the 70s but they became a cover band of themselves after Peter & Ace left! My room back then looked like the record shop from That '70s Show as I had concert posters all over my walls & ceiling {I am a headbanger} & had about 500 albums! My mother also never threw any of my stuff away, she saved all my toys, posters, gadgets, lava lamps etc...everything! Unfortunately after I put her in a nursing home several years ago drug addicts broke into the house & stole everything! I still have my 5000 diecast car collection that I started in 1969, mostly Hot Wheels & Matchbox but have several other brands & almost all of them are still in their original boxes or blister packs unopened & most are complete sets or series! I wish I still had all my Evel Knievel toys, I think I had them all at one time! I guess growing up in the 60s & 70s I am just nostalgic
I remember this commercial!!! My parents wouldn't buy that bike for me because they thought I was gonna jump it over stuff. So they bought me a Schwinn Stingray 5 speed and guess what I did...yep...jumped over stuff!!🤣🤣
AMF also made a "fine" Roadmaster moped (when those were all the rage for middle schoolers and high school freshmen). It was basically a bicycle with a friction drive 2-stroke engine mounted on the rear wheel. POS even by late 1970's standards.
I had a 3 wheeler that looked like this one, it was called the Cheetah. It was fast as shit. Two older kids rode on it and broke the axle. I was devastated, not to mention, I got yelled at by my sister for being in the street as they rode it. That was a bad day
He was hero to us kids over here in England too, i remember the build up to his stunts which were always spectacular. Trouble is, we went out on our bikes and tried jumping a pile of bricks with a plank, yep, similar kind of spectacular and with cuts n bruises to prove it🤣
While I'm sure they cost more than a Huffy, Murray or your average AMF bike, I'm thinking the licensing fees might have had them approaching Schwinn territory.
I got the Montgomery Ward's mono shock bmx bike the year this one came out. I think it's cool now, but back then it was a little corny if your friends saw you riding that. I was around 11 or 12 and we rode pretty serious on trails in the woods and parks.
In the 70's that guy had us doing all sorts of stunts on our bicycles til my friend jumped over the neighbor's retainer wall and broke his hip then, no more ramps, Lol!
i saw Evil with my own eyes once. he nurtured the daredevil in me, i once jumped 9 Schwinns with no landing ramp.... i stripped out my sissy bars and crashed but right after that i got my first double clamp gooseneck (stem) and BMX bars
Matt Hoffman named a BMX after him.We have a similar motorcycle stuntman named Eddie Kidd who was involved in a Life changing accident so if any British BMX manufacturers could design a bike with his name design and donate to his charity a percentage this would help i am sure..
