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Evel Knievel began performing jumps on the CL ... Unfortunately, this was also the bike used on the failed jump at Wembley Stadium, where after almost clearing 13 double-decker buses, his landing ...

In 1977, if you’d asked me to name four important things, I’d have said: that Evel Knievel broke every bone in his body at least once; that Evel Knievel’s nickname was inspired by a ...

(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 ...

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 ...