Evel Knievel died

I traveled with him in the mid-70's because I worked for Harley-Davidson and coordinated his events with H-D. He had a giant ego...but I always got along with him.



I managed to find a couple of scanned pics that I saved at one of the sites...only a younger me and his truck



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He used a Harley XR flat track bike (still had the cast iron heads and cylinders) and it was fun for me as the factory rep to be on the travel circuit in the midwest.



Toto
 
A sad loss. Especially when I read that his health had been failing these last few years.



Toto, great picture of a cabin over Mack. Did it have a five speed with a two speed splinter for first gear? I bet that was quite a trip traveling the circuit with an upcoming icon.
 
It was a fun, but hectic job...only lasted while Evel was in the Midwest on his tour. I think this was 1975 (bell bottom white pants and all LOL). Mostly involved keeping that Harley in perfect running order...could not afford dropping a valve during the run or some other mechanical problem...that would have been awful.



Toto
 
Nice to see those pics Richard, thanks for scanning!



Didn't Evel just settle a lawsuit with Kanye West or something? Shame he was stressing about that a week or so before he passed...
 
There are very few people that I really wanted to meet in my life but Evel was definitely one of them. Not for his dare devil skills but the way he told it like it was. He didn't care about political correctness and he believed strongly in street justice. I admired that trait in him and wish more people thought like he did. Recently, I rented his Biography entitled "The Last of the Gladiators" from Netflix. Man I tell ya, I could listen to him all day. America would be a better place if more people adopted his attitude.



With Deep Respect,



Patrick
 
“I don’t want to go to the kind of a heaven that some of these fellas peach about. Let’s say I died and landed in heaven - bang, I’m there OK? There’s I’m sitting there on a hard marble slab next to JFK, Martin Luther King and some pope, now what the Hell would Evel Knievel have to say to any of those three guys? I couldn’t hold an intelligent conversation with them. I want to go to my own kind of heaven that’s got a canyon there that I can jump across and make safely, it’s got a golf course I can shoot par on everyday, it’s got buses I can jump easily, it’s got draft beer that doesn’t make you fat, it’s got a lot of beautiful girls like you running around and my wife won’t get mad if I go out with any of them… that’s the kind of heaven I want to go to.â€� -- Evel Knievel, 1974



Amen, Evel . . . amen.



Tort
 
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