Fark needs a "Badass" tag.

i live in Cincinnati, and i'm having a hard time generating enough give a shiat to give a shiat.

At least he wasn't weeping and pointing to the sky afterward.

What no one ever mentions in these articles is that when no one is there, he does "practice" jumps to make sure he has the gag down. Evel used to do the same thing, and I remember a couple of Wide World of Sports episodes where they had to show footage of Evel crashing on a practice jump, and the planned jump never happened.

It still takes stones.

I bet they could mine his balls for an alternative energy source.

There needs to be a "Disappointing" tag

Edipis:
i live in Cincinnati, and i'm having a hard time generating enough give a shiat to give a shiat.

We should all weep for you.

Didn't he technically land on the flat part of the landing ramp that was laid over the last 5 trucks? I'm not sure if it's just the angle, or if he "came up short".

/still has balls of steel, yadda yadda yadda

i love that guy at the beginning of the video. what a dirt ass.

What? No attention whore pix?

Remember when he jumped from one building to another? That one freaked me out the most. Creeps me out just thinking about it.

This post sponsored by Coca-Cola Zero.

I'm afraid to ride a bike around where I work (D.C.)... which for all my complaining is still nowhere close to jumping 24 trucks on a suped up dirt bike... good job.

Robbie Knievel runs to hug his stunt coordinator, Spanky Spangler, after the jump.

I have nothing to add other than Spanky Spangler is a cool name

The best amateur video of the jump available:

Link (NO POP)

I was hoping for something more like, "Robbie Knievel successfully breaks every bone in his body like record-breaking bone breaking dad."

/But that's just me.

Tim655321: It's interesting when you examine the graphic in that PDF file linked on the site. Stunts like this, which are vastly more incredible/dangerous than stunts performed by Evel Knievel, still don't earn Robbie anywhere near the recognition his father had.

Keep things in perspective. Evel was jumping a heavy ass Harley Davidson with a 1974 suspension.

Robbie is jumping a light as a feather dirt bike with amazing shocks, etc.

People are doing double backflips on the bikes he jumps. I am not taking anything away but it is what it is.

Another example is sometimes Robbie will take his hands off the bars for a split second during the jump. Understand that the x games guys are completely off the bike on their jumps, maybe one hand on the seat..

the game has changed.

Robbie is NOT Evel. PERIOD.

Anybody else notice they had a "If you go" thing on the right, for an event they are reporting on?
/The Enquirer, inviting you to shiat after it's happened

Pause the video right at :07 when the rear wheel touches down and you will see that he would have hit the cab of the very last truck if the landing platform was not placed over it.

Then he was quickly sued by his father for infringing on his likeness and gimmick. Kanye West last seen laughing his black ass off.

\Yes, I know the old geezer is dead.

Yeah, but how many homeless can he jump?

Robbie jumped over my car once.

/I'm that cool.
//seriously!
///I have pictures
////Mine's the blue Subaru between the white bimmer and the grey 300Z...sixth from the left

Lot of hate for Robbie out there on the 'net and right here in this thread... seems like it mostly comes from motocross riders and fans who spend a lot of time hatin' instead of working on their own fame. You think Robbie is lame? Show him up or shut yourself up. SRSLY. You got something better to show us? We would all love to see it.

as was stated by someone else..this is different technology being used. i take NOTHING from the man, its still a death ride/jump.
but daddys bike was around 200 pounds heavier, with spring shocks and half the horses.
evil jr. has been trying so hard all his life to just live outside his father shadow, a real "winner" of a dad by the way.
i hope one day, jr gets to jump snake mountain, and then piss on the old farts grave.

TSE: Lot of hate for Robbie out there on the 'net and right here in this thread... seems like it mostly comes from motocross riders and fans who spend a lot of time hatin' instead of working on their own fame. You think Robbie is lame? Show him up or shut yourself up. SRSLY. You got something better to show us? We would all love to see it.

WTF are you talking about? Where's all the 'hate' in this thread? BTW: People are allowed to have an opinion. I'm not particularly fond of 'Sex and the City', so by your standards, I guess I have to put on a dress and f*ck a bunch of dudes to make some retarded point. Or maybe I have to become a professional actress?

Seriously, stop huffing gasoline.

a photocopy of one of my dad's prized possessions.

Robbie Knievel is just dirt on his father's coattails.

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The graphic above of the football field is prime evidence.

Evel had guts but not a lot of skill. Robbie has some of both, but courtesy of the people influenced by his dad, he is proven to have not enough of either to compete.

I pick up my bike next week so I'm really getting a...ok, no I'm not. Hell, I'll be nervous for a few weeks on the new ride.

Occam'sLadySchick: a photocopy of one of my dad's prized possessions.

"Butelx" is a great name. What's its origin?

i once jumped a midget while driving an isetta.

I'd hit it.

SuperCatBarf: Robbie Knievel is just dirt on his father's coattails.


http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/2361/kneivelwd0.jpg

Tim655321: It's interesting when you examine the graphic in that PDF file linked on the site. Stunts like this, which are vastly more incredible/dangerous than stunts performed by Evel Knievel, still don't earn Robbie anywhere near the recognition his father had.

Robbie has the advantage of 40 additional years of modern technology, vast development in stunt analysis and growing up as though it was all normal.

Dad did it with balls, spit and grit.

Tobias Rieper:

Okay, it's the same pic I referred to, what am I missing?

NYZooMan: has the advantage of 40 additional years of modern technology, vast development in stunt analysis and growing up as though it was all normal.

Very true, but the math was very well defined decades, if not centuries before Evel came along. It would seem that somebody blew the calculations on more than one occasion for Evel's stunts when he landed short repeatedly.

Don't get me wrong, I grew up an Evel fan like every other kid. But I think along with the balls, spit and grit, there was a degree of reckless disregard for Newtonian physics. Maybe that's why he got so famous.

Ahem ... Evel's Greatest Jump

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good job :)

I past the RK carvan driving home on Thursday. Maybe Cincy just doesn't care about such things. I didn't even give it a second look.

Earguy: What no one ever mentions in these articles is that when no one is there, he does "practice" jumps to make sure he has the gag down.

Stop telling lies you lying liar. Robbie Knievel is invincible, infallible, and bulletproof. Besides, have you seen the price of gas lately? He can't afford "practice" jumps - nobody has that much money.

djrez4: Robbie jumped over my car once.

/I'm that cool.
//seriously!
///I have pictures
////Mine's the blue Subaru between the white bimmer and the grey 300Z...sixth from the left

Nice car.

/A fellow WRX wagon owner.

Not bad, but he still has to jump Snake River Canyon like Dad....oh, wait.....

You GO Robbie!
B safe and B blessed...Oh, an lay off the booze and drugs awile, k?
Yer frien'
Billy B. Darn

I was going to school in Vegas at the time he jumped the fountains at Caesars. Prior to the jump, Robbie was hanging out at Tarkanian's. (not there anymore) Very cool guy and loved to hoist a few with the guys.

When he made that jump at Caesars, the cheer from the crowd was unlike anything I've heard.

/You the Man Kaptain

AgentPothead: Anybody else notice they had a "If you go" thing on the right, for an event they are reporting on?
/The Enquirer, inviting you to shiat after it's happened

To be fair, King's Island is a big amusement park, so maybe people would still like to go there, even if it's not on the day that Robbie Knievel is jumping over something.

bfd there are guys jumping 300+ feet now days.

Earguy: What no one ever mentions in these articles is that when no one is there, he does "practice" jumps to make sure he has the gag down. Evel used to do the same thing, and I remember a couple of Wide World of Sports episodes where they had to show footage of Evel crashing on a practice jump, and the planned jump never happened.

Bullshiat much?

that's kaptain robbie kneivel, to you, subby! he didn't bust is ass coming up through the ranks and excelling at officer kandidate school for you to not acknowledge his kaptaincy!

/what a silly bunt!

TSE: Lot of hate for Robbie out there on the 'net and right here in this thread... seems like it mostly comes from motocross riders and fans who spend a lot of time hatin' instead of working on their own fame. You think Robbie is lame? Show him up or shut yourself up. SRSLY. You got something better to show us? We would all love to see it.

Well put... A lot of pussies talk big game, and love to hate.

OK, now let's see 'im do it on a Harley like his daddy always did