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Originally Posted by Loxpump View Post
It gets us all eventually. I saw a biography special on him a few weeks ago. I totally forgot about him being locked up for assault. He was the first and now that I think about it the last true daredevil I remember. He's spent years trying to kill himself and he goes of "natural" causes. Ride on Evil!
I watched that too, he's a hero for sure.

Bud Elkins now Evel. All the heros are dying...
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He turned a circus act into a global entertainment spectacle. What an entertainer! It's almost too bad that he didn't go in a more fitting way, like in a glorious fireball crash. I hope they start showing the old movie about his life story.

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This topic is now being discussed in this current thread:

http://www.triumphrat.net/biker-hang...l-knievel.html

So I am locking this one down to stop the fragmentation.
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