Triumphrat

BigRedandRiding · 12-01-2007

After hearing one too many stories about "when I was a kid", my wife found this little piece of my youth on e-bay two years ago... behold, my Scramble Van:

A Fusion White Speed Triple would make a nice canvas on which to paint an Evel Knievel paint scheme, no?

sweatmachine · 12-02-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by just_phil

Perhaps a fitting legacy would be the philosophy that Evel seemed to represent:
“I don’t know if I can do it, but I will do it”.
Not a bad code to live by….

R.I.P Evel

my heart is in my throat reading this. Words to live by indeed.

jp99tbirdnm · 12-02-2007

Watched a two hour documentary on him today. Interesting and entertaining.

RIP Evel, you'll be missed.

convict · 12-03-2007

when we were kids we used to have the evil knievel wind up motorcycle and rider.you would crank the thing up and then release the bike and it would go careening right in the wall - not unlike the man . wow did we ever smash that thing up . again not unlike the man

Lee · 12-03-2007

He is gone but not forgotten. We will never have one like him again.

rndtaylor · 12-03-2007

thank you whisper. Dad and I are closer now than we ever have been.
Mom is looking thru the attic to try and find my old Evel toys.

Wombat · 12-04-2007

It has been reported that Evel Knievel has just made a record breaking jump on a motorcycle over the River Styx.

You just cannot keep a good man down.

s3hooligan · 12-04-2007

Not sure if anyone mentioned it but Evil started out riding a Triumph...

It's because of Evil that every kid on my block spent the weekends setting up wooden ramps and jumping everything from other bikes to Joey's little brother.....

Tought me more about physics than anything I learned in a classroom.

Yes, I still have my Evil Kneivel action figure!