@@ShaunYarbroughyou think that guy had the money on hand? He definitely had to borrow it probably from sketchy people that would kill him if he didn't pay them back. His life was on the line too
I saw this as a kid. Did he pull the chutes out early. Maybe. Was it some of the most exciting TV ever. Absolutely! Was Evel one of the gutsiest guys ever? There’s no doubt about that. RIP Evel.
I don't know about a PR stunt. But the man almost killed himself many times for his death defying jumps. We all rooted for his success, never wanting to see him injured doing so. As a kid growing up in the 70's, he was a great showman and a hero to us all. We all wanted to be just like him when jumping our Schwinns over the curbs on my street. Heck, my friend use to wear a white cape! Thank you Evil.
I grew up in that same time period, but I never thought of him as a hero. I thought he was a bonified idiot. I intentionally refused to watch because I didnt want to promote or be a willing partisipant to someone foolishly putting their life at risk. To watch, just serves to egg some people on. They value being famous over their own life. Just pure vanity and stupidity if you ask me.
This is one of my favorite memories, I was 6 years old and was there with my family and cousins watching it. My dad took us up to the chain link, it felt like we were almost to the edge of the canyon. We were able to go right up by the launcher. Things like that would never happen now, but everytime I see anything to do with him, I remember what a huge part of our childhood he was.
My husband who was 12 at the time kept his "SNAKE RIVER OR BUST " t-shirt for many years after the jump..then one day it disappeared..A lost Treasure to him !
I remember this jump. I was 9-years-old, and I watched it on TV with my mama. Evel Knievel pulled the parachute prematurely because he was scared. In an interview, right after this stunt he said, "I'll never do this again."
The biggest point about either a magician a mentalist or a stuntman is keeping the tension high either it works or not is irrelevant. Evel lives for ever!
I don't think this was a "PR Stunt" at all. Listen, this guy had BALLS!!! He had no fear. And if he did, he sure had a funny ass way of showing it. That's why I always said he was & forever will be the BEST. He was a crazy mother but at the same time its like I said, he had no fear. I certainly never saw it. The guy is a LEGEND!!!!
@@famousbowl9926 Lmfao at what? The guy had BALLS!!! In his day, I never saw anyone else even TRYING to do what he did. I mean there were some daredevils back in his day don't get me wrong, but there was only ONE Evel Knievel & like I had stated before, he was a crazy mother. He was & always will be IMO anyways, a LEGEND!!!
As a Dane I hardly remember this jump, and had to find a film about it! I of course remember Evel Knievel, also for his, not very American name, but as we have names like Knudsen (also a former Danish born GM Director and War Production hero!), we are used to this strange combination!
I was a HUGE fan. He pulled the chute. I feel certain that he began by truly believing he could do it, but realized during the project and promised date of the stunt, that it simply couldn't succeed. It wasn't possible to live through and he knew it. Wylie E Coyote had better ideas than this one. He'd made his name, legend and fame by risking it all, and suffering unspeakable injuries and crashes.. He now had WAY too much to live for, he'd proven his point, and he didn't owe anybody his life. I didn't go, or watch it closed circuit. I saw this one coming. It never changed my opinion. He was a true legend and always will be synonymous with bravery, and an icon of high profile, daredevil stunts. RIP Bobby "Evel" Knievel.
You are incorrect. And here is why. These rockets accelerate pretty quickly and the chutes can and will deploy way too soon. How do I know? Because just yesterday this happened. I seriously doubt he pulled the chute prematurely. ua-cam.com/video/lLuBDojtefA/v-deo.html
He could have made it. My wife's grandma had a house on the outskirts of Twin Falls & the day before the event, she witnessed Kneivel & his team attempt a test jump over Rock Creek Canyon within eyesight of her home. It wasn't nearly the expanse of the Snake River Canyon but wide enough to satisfy the requirements. She was the only person who witnessed it & to her final days, she insisted that her story was true.
Evel did'nt pull the chute . Bob Truex did'nt fix the problem an earlier test shot had . Besides the Skycle went 200' on the otherside of the Canyon before the Chute went to Full Canopy . The wind is what blew him back across . No 35 Mph head wind he would've made it.
I admire the guy for everything he done and he still is my childhood hero but its clear as day to me on this crazy jump he bricked himself and pulled the chute the moment the engine was ignited .
No way. It wasn't in his make-up to do something like that. The chute ejected prematurely. It was more dangerous to pull the shoot too soon; he almost ended up drowning in the river!
The chutes were on a “dead-man’s” switch, a spring-loaded handle he had to hold back. All he had to do was let go and the chutes ejected. My guess - and it is only a guess - is that when the engines ignited, he either lost his grip on the handle or momentarily blacked out. The switch was designed for in case of a blackout, after all.
He had three rockets. The first two he used as tests. Both of which didnt make it across. He knew those rockets cant cross the canyons. It was a PR stunt kid
@@Pradeep.Poonia that doesn't surprise me. We had a guy in Canada who tried to jump the St Lawrence seaway in a rocket powered Lincoln Continental, the 70s were an interesting time for abject stupidity.
I always thought he was nuts, I was a kid,at the time,they were all excited to see Beach stunt,and we love the Happy Days where Fonzie sort of acted like him]...but I know he enjoyed the danger
It's just funny to see people calling him a hero. Risking your life for entertainment purposes doesn't make you a hero. Having your family worry about you all the time, including small children, doesn't make you a hero. It makes you reckless but that has nothing to do with heroism.
Evil knew he would get killed on the other end of the jump. He had planned to pull the parachute lever as soon as he cleared the launch. He may have been crazy but he wasn't stupid. Case closed HAMMA DOWN.🔨
The shute going off early made it more dangerous, if he cleared the canyon and pulled it he wouldnt have so far to fall and the with it going off early he ended up in water and could of drowned to death. It looked like water
He didn’t pull the emergency Shute, they only tested in once and had to strip it down to be lighter and removed the emergency Shute for the test. At the actual launch the emergency Shute was re installed but the force of the launch knocked it loose right away.
"That he pulled the chute early. And the whole event was one big PR stunt." Uh, pretty much everything Evel did was a big PR stunt! Just stunts done by a guy with huge cahones! No?!
So you have all those guys with shotguns making sure he did the jump. Lets say he decided at the last minute he didn't want to go through with it. Would one or more of those guys shoot him and be arrested for murder? I doubt it.
"Immediate suspicion that Knievel had pulled the chute on purpose, that the whole even was a PR stunt." That's the first thing that came to MY mind, even as I was only 9 years old at the time. I'm STILL not buying it.
Everything EK did was a PR stunt. Had he completed the jump successfully, it would have STILL been a PR stunt. Don't understand the PR stunt comments. Of course it was one. Doesn't mean he tanked it.
There's a camera shot of him in the sky cycle before liftoff and he reaches out to put his hand on the handle of the chute release mechanism. He probably didn't expect the thrust he would experience at liftoff and the force pushed his body (including the hand holding the handle) back in the seat and he 'accidentally' pulled the chute. Hindsight being 20/20; had he attempted the jump a second time (knowing the thrust he would experience) I have no doubt he would have been successful. The man was a badass. The negative press he received in his later years were from the rage his years of injuries and concussion produced he could no longer control. For those who understand the trauma of brain injuries - Evel Knievel will ALWAYS be an American Hero.
NGL this is the first time ive seen this and right when it took off I assumed he might die and was anticipating something horrible to happen at the end
This is CRAP! I saw this as a kid. #1. The chute didn't "prematurely open". Knievel couldn't handle the G's, lost consciousness & let go of the dead man trigger and the chute deployed as designed. #2. It didn't go to the bottom of the canyon at all. The chute snagged on the rock wall of the side of the canyon & hung there 'til rescued. Someone is playing with our history.
Did he pull the chute? Maybe. Does a guy who nearly died so many times have a good radar for when something is TOO dangerous? Almost certainly. Even if he did pull it, respect for making a judgment call and getting to live a full life.
I don't know who there are, but the family at 35 seconds is NOT Evel's family (the woman looks a little like Linda, but the kids are definitely not Kelly, Robbie, and Tracey.)
merry christmas and happy new year everyone. i dream of jumping the canyon and setting a rodeo record for age 53 and singing the rodeo circut and cmt and mtv. maybe i could put speed jump bridges at the canyon and jump at 100 or 200 or 300 off a three inch ramp. yeeha dream right. happy trails eric stewart monroe city indiana stay tuned for singing videos and an album about eric and knievel. thanks everyone
Nope. Evel had to keep the lever pushed down. The sheer g forces made him let up on it. He actually made it to the other side but got blown back with the chute.
why did the steam rocket cut out after a few seconds ?, it never had the power to clear the canyon .. total fraud he should have never done this jump , he should have stuck to the bike jumps which he was talented at and brave. why sit in some stupid rocket that he had no control over ..
"Knievel had just survived; but almost immediately there were serious doubts about what really happened. After all the hype and promotion, there was a suspicion that Knievel had pulled the emergency chute on purpose -- that the whole event was one big P.R. stunt." Well, yeah. I mean, he didn't do this merely because he wanted to get to the other side of the canyon! ....I think they have a bridge across it somewhere.
He did complete a lot but he also crashed a lot. The point is he did what nobody else dared doing at the time. He inspired a nation and never quit. He always got back up and tried again.
As a 4 year old kid in 1976 there was nothing bigger than Evel ... until Star Wars the next year.
I am your age and had an Evel Knievel lunch box, along with .. Dukes of Hazzard, Star Wars, Star Trek, Scooby Doo among many others.
Old dudes here haha I'm 54 and remember playing Evel Knievel with bike toys.
Thats better than all the musicans from the 70s and even today who took drugs
Oh yeah, the hours of fun we had sending our model Evels over home made jumps.
True. 'Stars Wars' took over in 1977. Only besides SWs in 1977 was that black Trans Am in 'Smokey & The Bandit.'
"Yeah, I had 7 guys armed with shotguns to make sure that he went through with the stunt" 🤔😮
"We had everything at stake" sounds like Knievel did. I never knew about that.
Haha of course he had no choice to do it too many people there came and paid to see him do the stunt
@@YungPoe209 same like redbull today
He once said, what would I do. Give them there money back? He's just hard asf
@@ShaunYarbroughyou think that guy had the money on hand? He definitely had to borrow it probably from sketchy people that would kill him if he didn't pay them back. His life was on the line too
I saw this as a kid. Did he pull the chutes out early. Maybe. Was it some of the most exciting TV ever. Absolutely! Was Evel one of the gutsiest guys ever? There’s no doubt about that. RIP Evel.
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even if he decided to end it early, he was the one strapped in so it was his choice.
Same. This was all we talked about at school for months.
But why would he pull it right away?
I don't know about a PR stunt. But the man almost killed himself many times for his death defying jumps. We all rooted for his success, never wanting to see him injured doing so. As a kid growing up in the 70's, he was a great showman and a hero to us all. We all wanted to be just like him when jumping our Schwinns over the curbs on my street. Heck, my friend use to wear a white cape!
Thank you Evil.
I grew up in that same time period, but I never thought of him as a hero. I thought he was a bonified idiot. I intentionally refused to watch because I didnt want to promote or be a willing partisipant to someone foolishly putting their life at risk. To watch, just serves to egg some people on. They value being famous over their own life. Just pure vanity and stupidity if you ask me.
@@davemacgyver573 your lame that’s why
Similar feelings with alain robert
@@Feliphezo Wrong context buddy this boomer sounds badass
@@davemacgyver573 lot of peoples in the past see Evel as a idiot but the haters forgot and the fans stay.
This is one of my favorite memories, I was 6 years old and was there with my family and cousins watching it. My dad took us up to the chain link, it felt like we were almost to the edge of the canyon. We were able to go right up by the launcher. Things like that would never happen now, but everytime I see anything to do with him, I remember what a huge part of our childhood he was.
Did this guy just say he hired men to force Evel to do the jump at gunpoint? Wth lol
Yeah that is hilarious if true. 😂
All tv bullshit
My husband who was 12 at the time kept his "SNAKE RIVER OR BUST " t-shirt for many years after the jump..then one day it disappeared..A lost Treasure to him !
Rhonda Palmer I took it.
I bought one at a garage sale several years ago. Hmm?
"These guys' job was to make sure he never got out of that Skycycle." What a load of horse schitt.
I was watching. This must've been the biggest belly flop ever on live TV until Al Capone's vault.
lol i agree
lol i agree
Explain?
Bob waited seven years to attempt that canyon jump. The idea of him pulling the chute early intentionally is preposterous .
@Dahoss Evel pussied out big time.
I had a evel knievel rocket that had action figure and a hand crank launcher.
What a time
Don't for get the Motorcycle too. I had everything back then I even went trick or treating as him for 3yrs in a row until Star wars came out lol
I remember this jump. I was 9-years-old, and I watched it on TV with my mama. Evel Knievel pulled the parachute prematurely because he was scared. In an interview, right after this stunt he said, "I'll never do this again."
Vince Mcmahon was actually the promoter for this event. A young 28 year old Vince...
Hey from 3 years ago this is crazy to know tho
He, and several other investors lost a lot of money on this.
I was 8 years old and watched this live ! Those were the days!! It was 1974
I still have never seen photos or an explanation of where he was supposed to land.
exactly what I thought, I presume he was supposed to someone land and the shoots come out, but it was a rocket so good luck landing that
God I remember watching this at my Grandparents with my family and all my Aunts and Uncles and their families. This was a huge event in the USA
I visited this sight a couple days ago...it was awesome
The biggest point about either a magician a mentalist or a stuntman is keeping the tension high either it works or not is irrelevant. Evel lives for ever!
Entered the rocket at gun point ..what a load of bollox.... LoL
Well at least you were cast as Jor-El soon after...
@@oliverreno4734 LoL 👍 that's true.. they made me an offer I couldn't refuse..😜
I don't think this was a "PR Stunt" at all. Listen, this guy had BALLS!!! He had no fear. And if he did, he sure had a funny ass way of showing it. That's why I always said he was & forever will be the BEST. He was a crazy mother but at the same time its like I said, he had no fear. I certainly never saw it. The guy is a LEGEND!!!!
Oooookaaaayyy... ? Lmfao
@@famousbowl9926 Lmfao at what? The guy had BALLS!!! In his day, I never saw anyone else even TRYING to do what he did. I mean there were some daredevils back in his day don't get me wrong, but there was only ONE Evel Knievel & like I had stated before, he was a crazy mother. He was & always will be IMO anyways, a LEGEND!!!
It would be more impressive if he had fear and went through with these jumps anyway.
Someone needs to make a damn movie about this legend
they have
As a Dane I hardly remember this jump, and had to find a film about it! I of course remember Evel Knievel, also for his, not very American name, but as we have names like Knudsen (also a former Danish born GM Director and War Production hero!), we are used to this strange combination!
I was a HUGE fan. He pulled the chute. I feel certain that he began by truly believing he could do it, but realized during the project and promised date of the stunt, that it simply couldn't succeed. It wasn't possible to live through and he knew it. Wylie E Coyote had better ideas than this one. He'd made his name, legend and fame by risking it all, and suffering unspeakable injuries and crashes.. He now had WAY too much to live for, he'd proven his point, and he didn't owe anybody his life.
I didn't go, or watch it closed circuit. I saw this one coming.
It never changed my opinion. He was a true legend and always will be synonymous with bravery, and an icon of high profile, daredevil stunts. RIP Bobby "Evel" Knievel.
You are incorrect. And here is why. These rockets accelerate pretty quickly and the chutes can and will deploy way too soon. How do I know? Because just yesterday this happened. I seriously doubt he pulled the chute prematurely. ua-cam.com/video/lLuBDojtefA/v-deo.html
@@nebtheweb8885 That was an exact duplicate of what happened. Great find. It would seem the sheer velocity is unpacking the shutes.
"Wylie E Coyote had better ideas than this one"
Pure speculation. Why do the least informed always speak he most confidently I wonder.
@@breakneck777 Your "comment" just answered your own question.
The ramp is still there. We saw it last month. Pretty cool.
Seriously?
Even if this jump failed, what matters is that Evel Knievel survived.
He could have made it. My wife's grandma had a house on the outskirts of Twin Falls & the day before the event, she witnessed Kneivel & his team attempt a test jump over Rock Creek Canyon within eyesight of her home. It wasn't nearly the expanse of the Snake River Canyon but wide enough to satisfy the requirements.
She was the only person who witnessed it & to her final days, she insisted that her story was true.
Evel did'nt pull the chute . Bob Truex did'nt fix the problem an earlier test shot had . Besides the Skycle went 200' on the otherside of the Canyon before the Chute went to Full Canopy . The wind is what blew him back across . No 35 Mph head wind he would've made it.
The dirt mound that they built the take off ramp on top of is still there to this day! Twin Falls, Idaho
I admire the guy for everything he done and he still is my childhood hero but its clear as day to me on this crazy jump he bricked himself and pulled the chute the moment the engine was ignited .
No way. It wasn't in his make-up to do something like that. The chute ejected prematurely. It was more dangerous to pull the shoot too soon; he almost ended up drowning in the river!
The chutes were on a “dead-man’s” switch, a spring-loaded handle he had to hold back. All he had to do was let go and the chutes ejected. My guess - and it is only a guess - is that when the engines ignited, he either lost his grip on the handle or momentarily blacked out. The switch was designed for in case of a blackout, after all.
At age 14 years old I stood live and watched evil knievel it was pretty cool
There was no less danger pulling the chute early then waiting longer. So the P.R. stunt talk is bogus.
Steve Rakes the chute could have burned up in the exhaust
Maybe even more dangerous because he was risking certain drowning In the river.
That's not true at all
He had three rockets. The first two he used as tests. Both of which didnt make it across. He knew those rockets cant cross the canyons. It was a PR stunt kid
@@Pradeep.Poonia that doesn't surprise me. We had a guy in Canada who tried to jump the St Lawrence seaway in a rocket powered Lincoln Continental, the 70s were an interesting time for abject stupidity.
The man sat on a rocket at the edge of a cliff, and hit the go button...enough said.
We were pissed he didn't try it on a bike, as kids
Yep!
I can relate all too well to this!
In my home town - Twin Falls , Idaho
Was Vince McMahon involved in this?
I don't think Evel was ever disliked. He was cool as Fonzie but with a lot more guts.
This jump was doomed before it even started. His tremendous brass balls weighed down the sky cycle just too much.
uderrated comment. Well done.
I remember watching this as a kid, very exciting. Evel was always one to go bigger.
so what if he did how many people would have the balls just to shoot off that ramp
not many im sure well done evel
Johnny Knoxville
Wonderful, fantastic, thanks ❤
I always thought he was nuts, I was a kid,at the time,they were all excited to see Beach stunt,and we love the Happy Days where Fonzie sort of acted like him]...but I know he enjoyed the danger
11 years old watching on tv live in the U.K. Crazy and amazing
It's just funny to see people calling him a hero. Risking your life for entertainment purposes doesn't make you a hero. Having your family worry about you all the time, including small children, doesn't make you a hero. It makes you reckless but that has nothing to do with heroism.
Evil knew he would get killed on the other end of the jump. He had planned to pull the parachute lever as soon as he cleared the launch. He may have been crazy but he wasn't stupid. Case closed HAMMA DOWN.🔨
“Sky Cycle”- that’s brilliant. ❤
The shute going off early made it more dangerous, if he cleared the canyon and pulled it he wouldnt have so far to fall and the with it going off early he ended up in water and could of drowned to death. It looked like water
They weren't "emergency parachutes" - it was one parachute.
Today Commemorates Evel Knievel's 80th Birthday
i remember anticipating this jump and being dissappointed when it went wrong
We need a movie about him
There is a movie about Evel Knievel (starting George Hamilton), though it predates the canyon jump. I would watch an updated version.
@@cvmccoy nice
Why would he send hisself spiraling downwards?! He would not, and he did not.
True stunt man with Balls of Steel !
He'd have been told the rocket would have burned the chute out if he pulled it early, so unlikely to have been deliberate.
We LOVE this clip!
He didn’t pull the emergency Shute, they only tested in once and had to strip it down to be lighter and removed the emergency Shute for the test. At the actual launch the emergency Shute was re installed but the force of the launch knocked it loose right away.
I don't know too much about evil Knievel but I know his motorcycle was a lean mean
Wrecking machine!
He had to pull it! He had no end game for it! He was somehow going to land a rocket ??
Wasn't it one big PR stunt regardless of his intent? I mean he still shot himself in a rocket into a canyon. Not many people can claim that! lol
"That he pulled the chute early. And the whole event was one big PR stunt."
Uh, pretty much everything Evel did was a big PR stunt! Just stunts done by a guy with huge cahones!
No?!
Isn't everything Evel does one big PR stunt?
Literally that's his job 😂.
That last comment cracked me up big time!!! Made sure he wouldn’t get out of the sky cycle.
Super Dave woulda made it
I. Was. There. I. Couldn't. Believe. Whut. The. Feasco. That. Was. Such. A. Joke. IV. GOT. THIS. ALL. ON. FILM. AND. PHOTOS.
So you have all those guys with shotguns making sure he did the jump. Lets say he decided at the last minute he didn't want to go through with it. Would one or more of those guys shoot him and be arrested for murder? I doubt it.
I remember this being a huge deal back in the day. Whether he preemptively pulled the shoot or not, there was nothing safe about that stunt.
Now days with all that red white and blue on his equipment, suit, motor cycles, he would be considered a racists!!!
Jimmy Cline or a Trump supporter. Same thing
I grew up in twin falls, the ramps are still there.
My friend now owns one side of where he jumped.
"Immediate suspicion that Knievel had pulled the chute on purpose, that the whole even was a PR stunt." That's the first thing that came to MY mind, even as I was only 9 years old at the time. I'm STILL not buying it.
Everything EK did was a PR stunt. Had he completed the jump successfully, it would have STILL been a PR stunt. Don't understand the PR stunt comments. Of course it was one. Doesn't mean he tanked it.
@@scott1564 - Deliberately pulling the chute early is a stunt in a class of its own.
@@scott1564 - A daredevil stunt is not the same as a public relations stunt.
@@robertgantry2118 explain the PR stunt angle: what it was and why he'd do it.
There's a camera shot of him in the sky cycle before liftoff and he reaches out to put his hand on the handle of the chute release mechanism. He probably didn't expect the thrust he would experience at liftoff and the force pushed his body (including the hand holding the handle) back in the seat and he 'accidentally' pulled the chute. Hindsight being 20/20; had he attempted the jump a second time (knowing the thrust he would experience) I have no doubt he would have been successful. The man was a badass. The negative press he received in his later years were from the rage his years of injuries and concussion produced he could no longer control. For those who understand the trauma of brain injuries - Evel Knievel will ALWAYS be an American Hero.
NGL this is the first time ive seen this and right when it took off I assumed he might die and was anticipating something horrible to happen at the end
Wait, why the dudes with shotguns again?
I was 1 Year old..so I don't remember this at all...Lol
good demo of why people ride jet plains and not rocket plains.
jimmyjam700 Your comment is a good demo of why people should learn to spell!
and your comment is a good demo on how not to be a pompous twit.
The only non cutaway rocket launch you'll ever witness😊
This is CRAP! I saw this as a kid. #1. The chute didn't "prematurely open". Knievel couldn't handle the G's, lost consciousness & let go of the dead man trigger and the chute deployed as designed. #2. It didn't go to the bottom of the canyon at all. The chute snagged on the rock wall of the side of the canyon & hung there 'til rescued. Someone is playing with our history.
did he make it?
Such fast blast off will surely make you black out.
He is the man.
I was at the site couple weeks ago and thought. What made this man think he could jump this canyon??? Lol
"Sky Cycle"
LOL. When you switch from a motorcycle to a rocket forget about it. It’s not a jump !
a world legend man he was the best ever for me
Did he pull the chute? Maybe. Does a guy who nearly died so many times have a good radar for when something is TOO dangerous? Almost certainly. Even if he did pull it, respect for making a judgment call and getting to live a full life.
I don't know who there are, but the family at 35 seconds is NOT Evel's family (the woman looks a little like Linda, but the kids are definitely not Kelly, Robbie, and Tracey.)
merry christmas and happy new year everyone. i dream of jumping the canyon and setting a rodeo record for age 53 and singing the rodeo circut and cmt and mtv. maybe i could put speed jump bridges at the canyon and jump at 100 or 200 or 300 off a three inch ramp. yeeha dream right. happy trails eric stewart monroe city indiana stay tuned for singing videos and an album about eric and knievel. thanks everyone
90 Gallons of superheated water, released with no "off" switch. What more is there to say?
Also, I dont know how the parachute didnt catch on fire
1:02 what is in his hand?
Finger splint
You have to use the word “jump” loosely here. It was more like a ride on a rocket ship.
I had an evil knievel lunchbox as a kid, I got in big trouble when 3 older kids tried to take it from me .
Guess what ? They didn’t bother me again .
That parachute came out EXACTLY as planned.
Nope. Evel had to keep the lever pushed down. The sheer g forces made him let up on it. He actually made it to the other side but got blown back with the chute.
Unfortunately, that was Evel's "jumping the shark" moment.
I jumped of the kirb on my super tough burner BMX,beat that if you can.🎉 🚲 🎉.
why did the steam rocket cut out after a few seconds ?, it never had the power to clear the canyon .. total fraud
he should have never done this jump , he should have stuck to the bike jumps which he was talented at and brave. why sit in some stupid rocket that he had no control over ..
He wussed out
maybe he pulled it cause he was nervous?
"Knievel had just survived; but almost immediately there were serious doubts about what really happened. After all the hype and promotion, there was a suspicion that Knievel had pulled the emergency chute on purpose -- that the whole event was one big P.R. stunt."
Well, yeah. I mean, he didn't do this merely because he wanted to get to the other side of the canyon! ....I think they have a bridge across it somewhere.
That exactly what he did
Did this dude ever complete anything
Hadden Sorter , ya yer mama.
He did complete a lot but he also crashed a lot. The point is he did what nobody else dared doing at the time. He inspired a nation and never quit. He always got back up and tried again.
promote himself? lmfao he was promoted by Vince McMahon not "promoted by himself" for the snake river jump
*Dumbest thing he ever didnt do*