@@perryanderson5642 love 2 strokes, just so much fun, rode my friends sons KX 80 for a laugh few years back, couldn't believe how quick it was, but he'd had so much stuff done to it.
@@CRAZYHORSE187 That's Awesome! I think I'm stuck in the 80s. I catch myself listening to DEF LEPPARD and Van Halen every day. By the way, a KX80 was the 1st 2-Stroke I ever rode. Good times.
Will you people get it right? It is Evel Knievel not Evil ...... And I'm sorry Evel was throwing a Harley Davidson on his jumps just a few hundred pounds more than these custom motocross bikes . hell they have over a foot of travel on the springs Evel had 4 or 5 inches of travel. Big difference
Yep, which is why he broke nearly every bone in his body. Even with today's technology, these athletes have balls bigger than Vegas. Yes also paid well for the risk & our entertainment..
Not withstanding what these guys do.... But Evel Knievel did all of his shit on a modified Harley XR750 and later an XL1000.... Just sayin'.... Can you say metal sled????
Beanie Oakley, Evel was a stick figure in flight. Painful to watch. He never figured out how to control the bike in the air, and he broke his entire body because of it. He was an insane alcoholic with a whiskey throttle approach to bike jumping.
Would never happen. You’d have to flip so slow that it’d stop rotating and spotting your landing if you did somehow rotate it perfectly would be very difficult at that speed... just don’t think it’s feasible. I got flips dialed and I’d never try one past the 120ft freestyle ramp. Think the longest is at FITZLAND that Twitch did on the 160ft dirt hit over a step up.
Geez his wife or whoever the blond woman is always looking like she wants to be interviewed. lol but no one wants to talk to her. If she ever does something amazing like fly over 300 feet on a bike, people will want to talk to her too.
Modern guys jump and land without drama. You watched Evel Kievel because you just knew he’d probably fall off and he did...regularly. I saw him fall off at Wembley Stadium way back in 1975, I think.
That's apples to oranges, Evel was not getting even close to that distance. Evel was the pioneer the man the legend but you can't take away what these guys are doing now on these bikes.
I know when but looking at this footage you would think Robbie done this jump in the 80's.............................The quality is unbearable, better cam footage from space than this.
Ooh! Stop protecting Evel!! He was a daredevil and a showman.. Hes done..gone..dusted in an era of shit motorbikes and even shittier safety standards. As the same man today hed be Laughed at. He capitilised on something very few were doing and thats that. The guy was a fucking piss drunk at a bar who took himself way too seriously.
