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Try again, fail again, fail better, but in leathers on a motorcycle. Maybe throw in some snakes and lions, too.

Evel Knievel began performing jumps on the CL 305 Scrambler as a promotional tool to attract customers to his Honda dealership in the mid-60s. Some of his stunts included leaping over dangerous ...

(CNN)-- Evel Knievel ... his stunts perennial ratings-grabbers. Knievel's most famous stunt was probably an attempt to jump the quarter-mile wide Snake River Canyon in 1974 on his rocket-powered ...

Put the world’s top racers, including Mario Andretti and Parnelli Jones, in a demolition derby with newish cars, many of them luxury models, then have Evel Knievel jump over 50 vehicles on his H ...

Stuntman Robbie Knievel ... often doing dramatic jumps on his motorcycle. In 1989, he completed a stunt that was once attempted by his father. According to the AP, Evel was unable to complete ...

that Evel Knievel’s daredevil career began with a 20-foot jump over a crate of snakes and two roped mountain lions; that Evel Knievel was thrown over his handlebars onto the pavement after ...