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I am sure I was not the only person that has for all these years thought that Evel Knievel was actually Evil Knievel. No,,, Wait that’s backwards.
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In the seventies there were not many real life heroes that a teenage boy could look up to and admire, Robert Craig Knievel was just such a hero. Better known Evel Knievel,Robert was a real life dare devil, no CGI, no fancy hocus pocus, just a man and his street cycle jumping over crazy stuff like buses and trucks and even sharks. Just like the “Fonze”
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The Harley Davidson motorcycles that Evel used in his jumps were in no way designed to do what the dare devil did with them, if he had the motorcycles available today his life would have been very different.
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