Comments on: OMG – Evil Evel Knievel is Dead

By: Robbie Ford

Robbie Ford — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:03:02 +0000

I can also remember Evil as a kid growing up…when I bought my 1st bike, a yamaha yz 125 motocross for a $100, I thought I was Evil Knievel, jumping dirt hills and wiping out, never broke any bones though…now I feel like I was shorted or JUST LUCKY! I can’t believe he’s gone, makes you feel a little empty inside and makes you realize your getting old….He will be missed, fly on free bird, see you on the other side.

By: Ralph Zig Tyko

Ralph Zig Tyko — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:57:52 +0000

“The guy had a sak bigger than Santa’s.”
Bigger than Hillery’s?

By: colin woods

colin woods — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:42:21 +0000

sadly the world has lost another stand-out person.r i p evil.

By: Music City Bloggers » Blog Archive » Farewell to Evel

Music City Bloggers » Blog Archive » Farewell to Evel — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:10:13 +0000

[...] Slarti: For men my age, Evil was a HUGE icon in our consciousness during childhood. I still remember building ramps out of bricks and plywood, and jumping whatever was handy (including, one time, my brother). I idolized Knievel that much. I was SO jealous of my best friend because he had the Knievel wind-up motorcylce/action figure. That had to be the coolest toy since the 6 Million Dollar Man action figure, with bionic eye and cool punching motion. [...]

By: CLINT

CLINT — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:28:15 +0000

Evel Kneivel was a childhood staple of mine also. We had a camp in Maine when I was a kid, and there were nothing but dirt roads all round it. I also built those “ramps” out of plywood and a wooden log under it. I also placed it at the edge of a 7 foot by 5 feet deep dirt pit. When my old, beat up, Shwinn bike with the banana seat caught some air, I swear… I felt like I was 100 feet in the air! If I came down wrong and wiped out in the hole, I just got up and brushed off the dust off of myself. If I didn’t have any broken bones, I considered myself as good a daredevil than Evel was. Heck, maybe I was even better!
Man Oh man, those were great times. I thought I would live forever back then, and I thought my idol, Evel Knievel would as well. Today I am sad to earn of his passing. I think a little piece of me has died today as well. Goodbye my friend, thanks for the great shows you put on for me as a kid, thanks for the influence you had on my childhood, that helped to teach me to have courage, fortitude, and just plain fun dammit!
Godspeed Evel, rest in peace.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:03:07 +0000

The guy had a sak bigger than Santa’s.

By: sam andco

sam andco — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:03:53 +0000

omg cant believe evil knive as died R.I.P to the best stunt devil there ever was

By: Warrior

Warrior — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:32:31 +0000

I still remember the ABC TV movie with George Hamilton! And everybody was watching the Snake River Canyon jump.

By: Ginger

Ginger — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:16:40 +0000

oh man…I’m reliving so much of my childhood between your post, Tweets (on Twitter), etc.

My brother had the Evel Knievel wind-up motorcycle, and I always would sneak and play with it when he wasn’t around. Oooh, I also had the 6 Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman with the removable modules in their legs and arms. What fun!

It’s really a bummer to see our childhood icons growing old and dying off. I look in the mirror, and I don’t feel like I’m that much older than those days…but we are…and we’re all grown up with grown-up responsibilities…

*sigh*