“Evel Knievel The True Story Documentary”
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I met Evel in the "Cloud 9 Bar" at the Maxim Hotel in Las Vegas in 1994. It was around 1 in the afternoon and he was sitting by himself facing the lobby. I recognized him immediately but was terrified to approach him, so I asked the bartender to send over a drink with my compliments. I gave him a "thumbs up" and to my surprise he waived me over. We talked for about 30 minutes and it was an incredible scene. He was everything I expected and more. He was the very embodiment of a tough generation that has now passed. What a remarkable human being he was. It was the memory of a lifetime
Jealous
I guess he was friends with the owner or something and stayed there a few months a year. Out front was a big blue car, a Stuts I think, with big horns mounted on the front. The license plate read "Big Sky". Man that guy was really something. He didn't look at you, he looked through you. He had the most riveting presence of anyone I'd ever met.
Cool move, not approaching the natives without some liquor or beads...😂
Nice
What a great memory 👍🏻
As a kid in the Seventies....Evel was the Greatest!
70's best decade for sure
My friend had one of the Snake River rockets that you pumped and let loose
Amen !!
I remember the Saturday morning cartoon and action figure.
Better than any Rockstar
I remember seeing most of these jumps live when he did them in the 70’s and 80’s. We tried to do jumps on our bikes cause we wanted to be like Evel. Good times back then. Thanks for the experience.
Yes, trying to tune the bunny ears on the Ole bubble back t.v, just to watch em' my oh my, how I remember 😮
It was truly a great time to be a kid in America.
Thank God your still alive to text your thoughts here
@@flddoc2it was the same here in Australia too
@@JulieIelasi-lt7yp What he means is what every kid imagined when we rode our bikes as fast as we could off a flimsy piece of wood propped up by bricks or whatever we could find launching ourselves to the dizzying heights of about 12 inches, if we were lucky, resulting in the occasional broken arm, knocked out front tooth or straddle injuries more embarrassing and funny than anything but mostly skinned and bloody elbows, knees, and foreheads haha. Nothing truly to be compared to what EK did. The summer Olympics did much worse on monkey bars set into black top playgrounds at every elementary school in the 70s haha. Some of the daredevil feats done on parallel and uneven parallel bars that were immediately banned were emulated by a lot of kids over the following weeks. The funny thing is I never heard a teacher tell a kid to stop. Instead it would be something like: “DANIEL!!! Don’t do that! Keven hit his head yesterday trying it. You have to arch more and look at where you want your body to follow.”
Evil is the reason I ended up in the Emergency room with a broken arm... And my Dad, bless his heart, bought me a mini bike blue sparkle frame with a Tekumsa engine, that made my youth!
I was 4 months old when he jumped the Snake River Canyon! Evel Knievel IS THE ONLY hero of mine that has NEVER disappointed me! EVER!
Exactly...🎉
That’s because you never had the misfortune of meeting him. Complete jackass in human form.
Man. I was probably a little bit older but yeah, Evel was a legend in his own time.❤️💯😎
He didn't jump the canyon. He did jump into the canyon.
Thanks for this great guy's story, very well done and a great salute to the hero of millions. RIP Evel.
Whenever Evel was gonna jump something on TV, me and my grampa called the television set and were glued to the screen on the edge of our seats. Great times. As far as all of having the Stunt Cycle toy.........we had endless fun trying to get that thing to jump as far as we could. Our biceps developed faster than usual. Lol
I was a young boy in the mid 70’s & I had the Evil Kneivel toy. Really enjoyed this video.
The wind up motorcycle toy was the best.
He wasn’t jumping dirt bikes like today. He was jumping street bikes with a slightly improved suspension. THAT is insane. Launch yourself off a ramp and hope for the best. Nothing really like it before or since. This was a great time to be a kid in America.
flddoc2 He was not jumping street bikes. He was jumping modified flat track race bikes, Triumph and Harley.
@@davidkeeton6716 You’re right. I didn’t intend to undersell the XR-750. A better description would’ve been to say “essentially” a street bike compared to what’s available nowadays.
Wow, Wow, Wow, and a quadruple Wow for good measure!!!! Land sakes alive, what an absolutely stellar documentary, profiling the world's one and only original badass steel cowboy, the Wyatt Earp of extreme sports, Mr. Evel Knievel. There have been pretenders and contenders along the way, but there's only one King Of The Daredevils.
yes EDDIE KIDD of UK beat Knievel in dual comp for world title and if Eddie had not been disabled by freak crash he would've incinerated Knievel's records one by one plus snake river wasn't a motorcycle was a ballistic missile with wheels lol good on him trying at least his son got to grand canyon after dad wasn't allowed plus Robbie done it on real motorbike max kudos too all stuntmen
I don’t think so !
@@cabzombie3484 Hey, Makes no difference to me one way or another, as they say opinions vary, you've got yours, and I've got mine, that's my own personal feeling about it, so whatever dude!!!!
Growing up in the 70's EVEL was every nieborhoods boys Idol . We all use to pretend we where him , on our pedol bikes jumping tires etc . Me as well. Well my fame for jumping a bike came at a local town picnic and there was a jump by the bathroom building about 13ft high I was told by ppl I was higher than the building and when I landed my handle bar bent I saved it and there was a band playing and a tree I could sit in to see the band well he and band ppl seen it and said about it and said give him a round of applause just like EVEL kneivel . He said. Ppl clapped and well on my motorcycles I always took his advice to wear a helmet. And well one wreck I glad I did .big rock scraped deep into it. So a big Ty EVEL ya always will be the best & A Legend to many of us that grew up in the 70S and hopefully the new generation will follow the king of jumps .am a well knowen person myself in one place on the Internet and well ya proved ya wasn't a Bitchboy guy . ,lol TM , H3LLRAZORMUGGZ13 😎
Who in the world will ever be cooler than Evel Knievel? I love that Joe Louis was his hero …
Great Documentary. Much love to your family. Sometimes there is an perfect time to take an life lesson. And of coarse it would take Mr. Knievil to relay it. 💙🙏
He was my hero. I tried to copy but as a young teenager I was on a bicycle. That did not stop me. I wrote off several bikes but always botched the back together. My specialty was wheelying. I was epic at that.
COOL, SAME HERE, COULD WHEELIE AROUND THE ENTIRE BLOCK ON MY HOME MADE "SKID KID", IN STRAYA THATS WHAT WE CALLED BIKES WITH, oops, caps lock.. a big front wheel and small back wheel :), fun times, go to the rubbish tip for parts
@@vicbittertoo yeah exactly that. Grab bits off bikes too fucked to be used.
@@andymcneil7085 Total recycling, and us boomers get accused of not caring for the planet ??, we washed and returned our milk, beer and coke bottles, etc, etc , i would get parts from the tip, sand and paint them, new bearings, etc, , built very cool custom bikes and sold them to school mates, always had a couple of orders on the go :),
cheers
Yeah I bet you did too.
2:14. Did anybody catch what Evel said about some dude with a college education tearing the town apart because he knew better than anyone? Sounds familiar today.
My mom loved this guy! She was lucky enough to have known him at his prime. She always said that her best friend growing up was his head mechanic
He's your dad
@@davedoogan-e8oso so wrong but we all thought it.
Had the stunt cycle..and motor home..the things me and my friends ude to jump with the cycle and the ramp that came with the motor home. I can vividly remember playing with it in my living room
The footage of Evel crashing at Caesar's Palace was shot by the actress Linda Evans.
Yes I heard that. And she wasn't t wearing any panties😍
Growing up in the 70s we watched every televised Wide World of sports jump EK made.
I still have the scars from jumping my bike and motorcycle over some pretty sketchy stuff.
Thank you Mr. Kneivel for the memories and for being a hero and role model to me and thousands of others throughout your career. Evel Kneivel was truly King of the Dare Devils and the last Gladiator!!!!
He was more than just a daredevil that's for sure everything he said is true
Really bitting lions balls off don't think so
Don't get me wrong...he is one of my all time favorites....But a lot of the things he said...he was so full of crap.
He did a lot of drugs and was a huge hypocrite especially when he would give his speto everyone about never do drugs 💉 etc. Hilarious and Sweet!
@@Johnny2Bags47you will not take the drugs after you break your pelvis? I doubt it
@@Johnny2Bags47 your statement is true but how many kids stayed away from drugs because of his words... with all his surgeries and injuries he probably had a lot of pain to deal with
Not from street drugs. That was the same case with Elvis. He stood there with President Nixon and told kids to stay away from drugs
Some of my very first memories in life are of Evel Knievel 💯👍😁
I’m 56 years old ,
This country needs
Evel Knievel , Mike Tyson ,& Donald Trump
God Bless America 🇺🇸
God Bless us All
Remember watching his jumps on ABC Wild World ofSports back in the early 70s and in my neighborhood we would set up jumps for our bikes
I met Evil Knieval in Las Vegas at a convention in Las Vegas in 2000 or 2001. We took a photograph together with one of his motorcycles and we spent a few minutes talking about our life's experiences. He was an interesting individual.
I jumped my 10 speed when I was 12 and smashed and ruined the rear wheel on the landing ramp. I wasn't really hurt until my Dad found out I ruined my bike. Then I was hurt. Bad.
The man had balls that snake river rocket was insane
And he knew he wasn’t going to make it and did it anyway 👍
@@alanmeyers3957 that’s the craziest part that thing had hi probability to blow up before it even left the ramp
19:36 Exactly what we got my little Sister for Christmas, 1975, she Loved it!
Evil and kap kneviel were good friends of now they are in heaven with roger reiman evils mechanic and friend and from my hometown of kewanee evil spent slot of time there in the 1970s and 80s along with kaptin knevel and I miss all three dearly as they taught me all lot about life and how to be as an adult I only hope I'm 1\2the man they were
My mom got me the toy bike jump for xmass. Never forget.
This guy was awesome love every word coming out of his mouth
Ill bet if you asked Rishi Sunak if he knew who Evel Knievel is he would give you a blank stare. When we was growing up on a coundil estate in 1970s England Evel took us somewhere else. Its no accident that a ramp made out of half plank and a few bricks was the jump for our push bikes. Normal pushbikes. No bmxs. Theyde not come yet. Same as state of the art Motocrossers. We lived side by side x
He's broken more than 30 bones but encouraged more than 100,000 people to break theirs
Lol thats nothing in comparsion to all the Internet challenges from today.
🏆 Sharing
He only broke 30 bones ? When I was a kid the radio stations said he broke every bone in his body 3 times over his career ! 😂😂😂 always loved EK .
we most have listen to the same shows
I would have loved to see Robbie do just ONE JUMP on the same XR750 Evel used.
In my childhood Evel was THERE for me. I have greater respect after hearing his comment towards Hell's Angels 🎉 ! Evel, A REAL MAN ♂️👞 !!!!
It was a long time ago, but I remember watching him jump.
I think his Canyon jump was on wide world of sports , With none other than howard cosell but as a kid, I didn't realize how dangerous this actually was I was fortunate enough to see this live
"Im gonna slap him so hard theyre gonna pick him up for speeding in San Fransisco"
😂
Not that funny bro clown 🤡
I had his Halloween costume in the 70's,with the lip holes that was sharp a blade,,and his toys,got a 70s autograph picture from writing a letter to him,,,AWSOME memories
He is one of the most courageous men of the century. To do something knowing that it could kill you is pure Courage.
My brother had one of the stunt bike 1975 Australia.
Absolute legend
Apparently, he was a bit of an Outlaw to begin with. lol, boys were a fair bit Wilder back then, (at 18 they were being sent to Korea, later Vietnam). I believe that had an influence in their greater apt to risks.
The late 40's and 50's were when Motorcycles really picked up interest, the Brando and James Dean images were very much representative of the Spirit at the time, continuing to expand as they moved into the 1960's.
It took some guts and questionable Brain Balance to do such "speed and stunts", and "on a Motorcycle" ...
After all, theres no airbags or seat belts, you know ...
🏍️
I remember the day of the Snake River attempt. Al my friends were listening to radio, too. The man cheated death so many times! I had a friend who tried climbing a steep hill and lost control and he and the motorcycle both tumbled down the hill and luckily it didnt land on him. Reminded me of Evel! Another friend went down steep river band hit a tree, and went flying through the Y in the tree, into a river. One broken bone. I cannot imagine the guts the Knievels had to do such things!
He might of left the limelight but not forgotten,
Does anyone know the name of the song @ 26:33? I would really like to hear the whole thing. I've put lyrics into Google and I get nothing. I've also let Google listen to it. Still nothing.
Did you ever figure it out? This is going to drive me crazy.
@@eclectickatie1401 Damn it! I had totally forgotten about this (of course) but unfortunately no. I'm sorry.
@@eclectickatie1401 ua-cam.com/video/76MtTitua9w/v-deo.htmlsi=Uj-QBU_vl9mwGEPK
This is it basically I guess. Just 30 seconds. We had already heard the whole thing. My theory is the guy who wrote it couldn't come with anymore good lyrics but couldn't not record what he had so this is what it was. Still pretty damn clever.
Heard some crazy stories about him in Butte
Just remember, "hearsay" is distorted and amplified. The more people it travels through, the most distortion and amplification.
Great rider great showman didn't take crap from hells angels either.
He did it with big heavy bikes too
Let's be honest, Evel's greatest accomplishment was breaking Sheldon Saltman's arms. Ya gotta love it.
The appeal of Evel Knievel was not that he had the ability to make jumps, it was in fact his ability to fail, crash and suffer great injury. People paid to see him crash. If he made every jump he would not have been successful. Period.
There ain't a Hells Angel or any other biker with the guts Evel had - And he was cool - Them dudes wish they could carry his piss bucket -
These days these types of stunts are practiced hundreds of times by jumping off a ramp into a foam filled pit. Respect to Evel Knievel.
I don’t get how people thought it was a scam when he had blood all over him and clearly almost died in that rocket, did they think the blood was fake?
As Theodor Roosevelt, (the good Roosevelt), once said: "It is not the critic that counts, but the man who is actually in the arena" (paraphrasing). The people who make such claims, are the people who are scared to actually "live", and have not lived a day in their life. I think they are jealous cowards, who despise anybody who does not need a baby sitter as they demand and require for themselves. There are more today than then I estimate.
wasn't a scam as such but Evel knew he was going to fail before he jumped but did jump for fans like a true hero would no scam if was scam he wouldnt have risked life if parachute hadn't went early he would've made jump god knows what would've happened if he landed at rockets speed and weight could've killed him easier with impact alone
@@EarthSurferUSAespecially more of them today in this joke society. Pathetic little babies everywhere. No backbone whatsoever.
how can they get or have any kind of medical coverage if you know please leave a comment t y
His is the first time I recall hearing that the jump over the river was a mile. That's crazy. 🤪
Nice 👍
Visited Butte in 2015. The people I spoke to did not speak highly of him. However I did admire him or maybe it was his courage. Brass balls as they once said.
❤❤💙 ❤💙❤ Team Knievel For Life### ❤
Man he was the Man. Only Evil could do that!! Period!!
Correct the spelling,”EVEL” is our man !
My Dad took me to see Evel at the Astrodome and I got to see my Hero jump! I was able to meet the man in person in North Idaho during his farewell tour and was first in line and he was amazing! My Hero was so kind and very humble. He signed posters for me and my sons, inscribed to each of us separately. I told him that it was the Honor of my life to meet him and to shake his hand. I was so happy to see him accept Jesus as his savior in the crystal cathedral. Thanks Evel and Captain Robbie, true American Treasures
MR. EDDIE KIDD THE BEST "EVER"!!!!!!!!!
Never heard of him
Growing up as a kid in the 70s was the best. Getting home from playing backyard football all day just in time to catch the knievel jump on NBC and remembering the Ali Frazier fight was on ABC later that night. With Evel as my hero, what was i supposed to do, NOT steal my sisters car and drive it 100 mph every chance i got?...YEAH RIGHT.
44:33 come on man it was Buzz Aldrin 😒
Evel Knievel was the ULTIMATE AMERICAN LEGEND/Folk Hero! There will never ever be another E K. R I P !
I'm not sure if there's a station out there that would, air something like this, but then again some stations promote cutting your Wang off😅
He jumped the busses. He just bounced down the ramp. Its hard to hold on when a bike gets out of control. Ive lost control before but not even close to that fast.
He did it all but he never jumped the shark. RIP EK
Evel Knievel was a great man who made Harley-Davidson the best motorcycle in the country of America the world, it was a man that knew what he wanted to do
See I don't have the same memories the BRADYS INSISTED I HAD????
What about The Osmonds?
He made more money off of a toy contract than anything else. Amazing..a 5 dollar plastic toy. Kids made him rich.
Yea the bikes these days are way more forgiving evels bike basically no suspension at all and heavy to as compared to the bikes today he did the undo able balls of solid steel
I got to meet Evel at a jump……….he said ALWAYS wear a full coverage helmet and love America….
It's amazing that every jump he was drunk...
evel was the best stuntman on The map his JumpS were great!! The best jump was Paris ISLAND Jump So was the rest ov his Jumps.
What are u texting about , its not related to this bio
Whenever I see on YT "The true story", like our education of American history, it probably is not.
Turns out, what I said is true again.
😁 - "I never lie."
_Evel Knievel lying through his teeth._
"Jumping the shark" is now related to performing a failure and ending a career. But not just with Knievel. The Fonz, (happy days show), also jumped sharks, witch signaled the end of that TV show.
Fonzi jumping the shark, the end of the show: ua-cam.com/video/Cs9M1m-dpgM/v-deo.html
The phrase Jumping the Shark came after the Happy Days show. Nothing to do with EK.
@@johndef5075 They also went on to film like another 100 episode's of Happy Days after the shark jump.
@@lilorbielilorbie2496 But the show lost its popularity. The phrase "Jumped the shark" came from that Happy Days episode with Fonz jumping the shark on water skies. It signaled the end... they over did it... too much... made the show goofy.
29:13 He did not know how to keep the front end of the bike low. (He stayed on the throttle too long when leaving the lip of the jump). He was lucky that when he made contact with the rear wheel on the landing, then when the front end slammed down to the down ramp, that the bars were not ripped from his hands again. He was more guts than technique, bet he was the first, so that is not surprising.
(He stayed on the throttle too long when leaving the lip of the jump, and had terrible body positioning for jumping. Head should have been over the handlebars, which we discovered with Motocross).
He could outride any of you gen xers today.He had class and style.
@@billbazen9432no he couldnt. Get real.
@@EarthSurferUSA he had no one to watch and learn from... being the first at something is way harder than being the last to do it
@@EarthSurferUSA can i have some of drugs your on can you drive a motorbike have you ever miscalculated a jump and went 20-30 feet in air no landing ramp in an OH FCK MOMENT throttles kept on for wheels to spin fast for smoother landing you've no clue of tripe your typing I was alive when evel jumped seen jumps in USA then he came too Britain I was a kid had the toys stunt cycle rocket bike looked better with rocket outer off as looked like a chopper with its ape hanger bars lol evels motorhome too but too many gamers on here think its same as on screen lol ive cpl big motocross bikes 81 maico 490 87 Kawasaki kmx500 99 Honda cr250 each ones as lethal as each other but I'm keeping them now im 51 drove bikes since 1977 at 5yrs old a honda 90cc monkey bike i loved that bike had it for 10years before sold it as by then id a 175 bsa bantam scrambler now had lots bikes
❤ Evel Knievel is right God put you on Earth to do your best I would have loved to hang out with that guy
Just a caveat to young people looking for info on EK- this is edited and a approved by EK and family. That means it is all myth and legend. You might as well watch the George Hamilton movie to learn. The Hollywood movie has more truth in it, if less facts.
I was there in the 70's and he was a fantastic figure. I loved him, and still find him fascinating. Not a hater.
I was 9 in 1974 and was and still a fan. What is myth in this film?
RIP EVEL
Evel did all thst crazy shit on a Harley
I cannot say for sure because I wasn't there. but It is rumored and certainly from the media recaps, it seems as if Robbie did all of Evil*s last jumps.
Evel Knievel is the original founder of the action sports entertainment industry
Can’t find my comment and maybe buried eat below (UA-cam needs to fix this) but I said he jumped the Grand Canyon, but it was the Snake River Canyon.
Also, I loved the Evel motorcycle toy when I was a kid. Come to think of it, someone must’ve stole it bc I don’t know whatever happened to it.
Surprise he could still ride a bike after all those crashes He seem like a stubborn kind of guy, but he got to live his life the way he wanted.
How does he know Gigi’s great great great grandfather was a gladiator? Sound like he told some wild stories and some true and some not. Bc he didn’t even know his own dad and he left after he was born.
No matter what happens, the initiation of violence is wrong, (from a citizen or a government), and not even thought of if there is a proper court system to "right the wrongs".
Evel Knievel Was The Man! I Remember Having An Apollo 5 Speed Bicycle, And Made Some Ramps To Jump Over 3 Garage Cans! And I Did It! But My Mom Whipped My Behind!!! 😂😂😂
You have to wonder why he never put more suspension on those XR750s. He loved Harley. Great. Just modify it for what you are doing with it. If he had done that, and understood about rear wheel speed affecting flight/landing angle, he could have jumped farther and landed safely. Look at his son and Bubba. They had better suspension.
His girlfriend looks younger than his daughter! But she's not after his money or anything like that 🙄
Please don't be silly Andrew
Hypergamos by nature.. They ALL are...
@42:59 I'm sorry sir but EVEL is full of BS , HIS STORY of the lion and Julius Caesar is so far off on a time line it would be closer to 20 - 30 great grand parents not 4 great grand parents to be anywhere near that time in 42-45 BC. it's funny to hear the stories of people who don't have the power of the Internet at their finger tip to research what they talking about.. 42:59
all hail the power of the internet. bow down.
Lets not talk about THIS GUY STAGED DIVED INTO A CROWED HEAVY METAL STYLE THOW😮
Hes 💯 percent some people are Rat's 🐀
Yeah, Robert "Evel Knievel" was and always will be tho Excellence of execution "!!... hands down...
💙
Who turned the throttle?
He sabotaged his own jump landings the true definition of real masochist
I saw him at Wembley. .Must've been about 8 at the time.