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R.I.P Evel Knievel
AgentX:
Dammit...
I had three heros growing up in Buffalo NY in th 70's.
OJ Simpson
Evel Knievel
and my Dad
thank god for Dad.
MikeQ:
Ha! I was growing up in Rochester NY in the 70's. He was my first hero. We lived in a development that was new and had a lot of houses being built. We would go to all the new houses and collect the refrigerator boxes on the curb. We had a ramp we built on a dead end street that was about 4 feet high. We would line up the refrigerator boxes like buses and jump them with our bikes. If you didn't make it, you would just flip end over end on the boxes without any real injury.
Those were the days.
billf:
--- Quote from: Icantlogin on November 30, 2007, 10:45:19 pm ---Sad day. :(
I can credit him with one broken arm jumping a trash can on my bike, and many scraped knuckles playing with his toy stunt cycle.
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Have to concur - sad day. I remember playing with the stunt cycle; it was a great toy. Couple of links to pages about the stunt cycle:
http://www.plaidstallions.com/evel/index.html
http://weirdscifi.ratiosemper.com/evelknievel/toys.html
btp2k2:
The stuntcycle was awesome for sure. I remember hitting my father in the head with it as he napped on the floor...
I jumped a ditch by my house as a kid....at age 10 it was a pretty gnarly jump...maybe 4 feet....the kid next door was a bit older and me and my friend would always try to go big to impress him...you know...show the big kids we were cool too...stupid. So the older kid, Charlie, took me up this hill with the ramp below and I was like...I don't know....it's big. And he said "Stop being a wuss...you know Evel Knievel would do it" So I went. And destroyed my scrotum on the neck, chipped a tooth and broke my finger when I stuck my hand out. I looked like mangled ass....but I was cool man. I got to hang out with the older kids after that....thanks Evel!
R.I.P.
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: btp2k2 on December 01, 2007, 12:15:58 pm --- And destroyed my scrotum on the neck...
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that was fortuitous, would have saved heaps on cranio-facial surgery ;D
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