Evel Kenieval - Ch5 last night

I watched the Evel Kenieval documentary on CH5 last night.

**** me he was shite. Hard as nails and with a fear of nothing, but he
was shite. I was 9 when he did the Wembley jump[1] and therefore I was
prime "target audience". I thought he was a God. I emulated his
earlier jumps on my Raleigh Budgie, with an old table, two bricks and
a sibling. I even made a cape and wore white wellies and a cricket
jumper.

True nostalgia.

[1] You'll be pleased to know, this time round I didn't cry when he
"retired".

 

Real men don't need suspension. Looking at the film of the Wembley jump,
you could see the suspension bottom out as he went *up* the first ramp so it
wouldn't have taken Ron Williams to work out it might have a little trouble
coping with the landing a couple of hundred feet later.

Still Eddie Kidd had a proper bike and look what happened to him.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, HooDooWitch said:

Shit, I missed it.

Was it really that bad? What was shite about it, a bit like watching the
Dukes of Hazzard 20 years later?

Shame

 

It wasn't shite, he was shite. At jumping over things without crashing that
is. Not helped by jumping on a harley with about three inches of suspension
travel. He is a top bloke though.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, flashgorman said:

Oh, riiiight! Yes, I do STR he was more famous for crashing.

Yes. I remember one at Las Vegas? when he jumped over two fountains or
something?

That one ended in tragedy as well.

Yeah, you've got to be a little bit mad, haven't you?

 

To be fair, he was brilliant and the whole "package" was brilliant.
Daredevil, ne'er say no, showman. The stuff of dreams. My dreams to be
precise.

But he couldn't land a beached whale.

 

Oh yes he could. He'd just get pissed first and break both his legs in the
process.

 

Whales don't have legs. ...

 

Which is presumably why they end up beached?
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nah - no GPS, that's all.

 

Life's a beach and then you die.

 

"My Pod went to Tainan, and all I got is this lousy T-shirt"

 

I prefer "I invested 80 million in a dot com venture and all I've got left
is this lousy T shirt"

 

http://www.cashncarrion.co.uk/cnb/s...=catalogue-product_info-null&prodCategoryID=5

 

Life's a beach, and then you dive!

 

At the end of some of those jumps it looked almost as though he were
deliberately crashing.

 

"We wanted a great design for UKRM and all we've got is that lousy T Shirt"

 

http://www.tshirthell.com/

"She may have been your little Princess, but she's my bitch now."

 

.... and *deliberately* breaking his pelvis. ..

'Kinshowboatingwanker.

 

I want this: http://www.tshirthell.com/shirts/tshirt.php?sku=a102