Who can forget the man who was the front
runner to today’s impossible dirt bike ramp jumps of
over 300 feet. Robert Knievel christened “Evel” while
briefly incarcerated early on in his 69 year life went on
to entertain the world with his Harley Davidson wheelies
and life threatening jumps to the Snake River Canyon near
disaster. Evel lived high on the hog most of his life.
Anything he wanted he had, anything he wanted to do, he
did. Several documentaries and books have revealed most of
good and much of the bad in Evel’s prodigal life.
However just before he was laid to rest in 2007, his
closing chapter perhaps you missed. It’s a jump that is
infinitely longer and the more satisfying than any in his
career.
Knievel takes center stage and gives it to us in his
own words. This brief YouTube video is one of the most
moving of its kind.
