Daredevil Evel Knievel is in London Hospital in “satisfactory” condition after jumping 13 buses and crashing at 100 miles per hour in front of 70,000 fans at Wembley Stadium. He shows no sign of ...

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On Thursday (May 22) Llangollen Railway will be welcoming an 'Army of Evels' to the Dee Valley as they tour Wales to commemorate the 50th anniversary of stunt bike legend Evel Knievel's jump at ...

Read about the 50-strong Welsh riding group who will raise money for charity by dressing as the famous stunt rider in 2025 ...

Evel Knievel began performing jumps on the CL 305 Scrambler as a promotional ... where after almost clearing 13 double-decker buses, his landing sent him flying off the bike.

When Tracy Cassel asked Evel Knievel for his autograph at the ... Born and raised in Butte, Knievel’s death-defying jumps over rows of cars and buses on his red, white and blue Harley made ...

But up to now, he’d been riding motorcycles over, say, a dozen cars or buses ... They talked about the Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle, which, for a few years in the 1970s, was among the top selling toys.

For most people, the fact that Knievel lived nearly seven whole decades and died in a relatively perfunctory manner was a big surprise because in his heyday, he had gone by the name Evel Knievel ...

Despite the high drama of the failure, Knievel walked away with just a broken nose and a few scratches. Just over a year after another high-profile unsuccessful jump over 13 single-decker buses in ...

One day you're a hero, the next day you're gone. Kypros//Getty Images Evel Knievel attempting to jump thirteen buses in London’s Wembley Stadium in 1975. The stunt ended in a crash, shattering ...

St Petersburg - Daredevil Evel Knievel, who dodged death in spectacular motorcycle ... It landed partly in the river but Knievel walked away with minor injuries. For a jump over 13 double-decker buses ...