Evel Knievel has died. Updated.

no link yet, just heard it live on www.msnbc.com

Evel Knievel Dies at 69
By MITCH STACY, AP
14 minutes ago

CLEARWATER, Fla. —
Evel Knievel, the hard-living motorcycle daredevil whose exploits made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.

Knievel's death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel. He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs.

Knievel had undergone a liver transplant in 1999 after nearly dying of hepatitis C, likely contracted through a blood transfusion after one of his bone-shattering spills.

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near me here in Seattle... 've never been sure if it was local myth or true... did you hear where?

Rest in peace.

She called him Ehvel. Oh she thought he was trouble, she used to tsk tsk about him. It was hilarious. I'm very sad about this. We used to drive by his house in Butte at Christmas because the lights were so over the top. They have a festival every year now, Evel Knievel Days. It's very popular.

And possibly also Las Vegas?

Or else it will seem kinda anticlimactic, doncha think?

Terrible disease that it is.

:spray:

Diabetes, kidney transplant etc.

Liver failure.

you gave this 70's kid a lot of thrills.

He was my older brothers' hero when I was a kid. They used to set up scrap-lumber and cinder-block ramps to imitate him on their bikes. Many injuries due to this man's influence!

Rest in peace Mr. Knievel and thanks for the childhood memories!

He was the reason behind many a bicycle jump my brother and I attempted as children. Sometimes we even made it!

He went up the ramp on his bike, flew up into the air, came down and held it together long enough to hit an uneven spot of concrete on the sidewalk! He flew ass over applecart and landed right on his chin. Off to the ER we went again! Good thing our mom was a nurse and we sure kept her busy. Being the smart girl that I am, I always just sat on the lawn like a spectator laughing my ass off whenever he wiped out. LOL!

Round and round the driveway.

:o

and now i feel kind of bad for laughing at your post.

:D

He was the shit when I was a kid. He was the ultimate daredevil, I will miss him.

an odd line of work, but there will never be another one like him.

That looks like an outfit MADE for the Shrub.

under clothes like these he wears some sort of absorbent insert in his Superman UnderRoos.

they swallowed that key. Ewwwwwwwwww.

Captain America, I can see it now.

On edit: Actually I would make him one if only he would agree to let us shoot him out of a cannon.

:rofl:

:P

He even inspired an "After Dark" Screensaver (Dare devil)
R.I.P. Evel.:(

Joie Chitwood inspired him as a kid. I only met Joie once and everyone is gone now so I have no clear background story but I do know that Joie inspired him.

And he was still remembered there greatly, so much the city wanted his son to do the stunt.

I went to college with Mitch Stacy. I'm sure this is the same one I knew. (It was journalism school.)

Brings back some great memories.

He was bigger than life and he amazed us all.

much to the chagrin of my mom, who kept having to take me to the hospital.

Safe travels, Evel.

Thoughts and prayers for his family. All the boys, and some of the girls, in my neighborhood in the '70s used to try to imitate him by doing crazy jumps with their bikes and the like. This is sad.

What a way to go.