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Offline jimg1au

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how did evel kenivel get his name
« on: December 12, 2007, 11:45:08 pm »
i know as i saw a bio on foxtell.he was an interesting man.still making money from the failed rocket jump,by suing Kayne west for using it in one of his video clips the one with Pam Anderson in
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Re: how did evel kenivel get his name
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2007, 12:33:38 am »
I assume everyone on this forum knows he died recently?

Evel is a modified version of "evil", which is a moniker he picked up in his young, wild days. He changed the spelling later on.

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« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2007, 07:20:00 am »
AFAIK he met some character in jail called "Awful Knawful" and picked up on it.
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« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2007, 07:34:48 am »
"When the night jailer came around to check the roll, he noted Robert Knievel in one cell and William Knofel in the other. Knofel was well known as "Awful Knofel" ("awful" rhyming with "Knofel") so Knievel began to be referred to as Evel Knievel ("Evel" rhyming with "Knievel"). He chose this misspelling because of his last name and because he didn't want to be considered 'evil.' "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evel_Knievel
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Re: how did evel kenivel get his name
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2007, 11:18:19 pm »
I have a autograph from evel and earlier in the peice, well for years actually always though it was fake until i relised it actually was evel knievel the way he spelt it, thank christ i didnt throw it out....... i would be slitting my wrist now.

When i was a kid i had a Evel bike and ramp, i wish i knew where that little treasure went, i think its still with my abba poster under the bed, pity i left that house....... ummm what 30 yrs ago
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Re: how did evel kenivel get his name
« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2007, 09:21:40 am »
Who cares how he got his name ,The guy was over rated and only good for one thing and that was falling off motorbikes and breaking multiple bones. Anyone recall a young Aussie boy back in 1980 called Dale buggins? He was jumping motorbikes better than anyone on the planet at that time and kneivel was most upset about that.Unfortunatly buggins died young.
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Re: how did evel kenivel get his name
« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2007, 09:52:22 am »
Here's a bit on Dale Buggins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb5JP3aV_BU ,Darcy
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Re: how did evel kenivel get his name
« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2007, 02:04:55 pm »
Quote from: lyle2212 on December 21, 2007, 09:21:40 am
Who cares how he got his name ,The guy was over rated and only good for one thing and that was falling off motorbikes and breaking multiple bones. Anyone recall a young Aussie boy back in 1980 called Dale buggins? He was jumping motorbikes better than anyone on the planet at that time and kneivel was most upset about that.Unfortunatly buggins died young.

True , but being dead wont help your jumping, and evel never said he was a great jumper, he was a Showman.

that was alway his claim, and bad landing or not he did that made a show of it, a jumps a jump, but like wrestling,  you wont drive to Las Vagas to see a 2 min jump its all the build up , and if he didnt crash and walk away it was a weak jump.  IF you crash it looked like a long unmakable jump.  read his biography, it was all part of the show.
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Re: how did evel kenivel get his name
« Reply #8 on: December 21, 2007, 02:52:46 pm »
showman = razzle, dazzle, b.s. and bluff/ no talent .

Yep, you right; he was a showman.

Sorry, it doesn't appeal to me and never did. And still don't respect him.
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« Reply #9 on: December 21, 2007, 03:33:34 pm »
You can't say the guy didn't have balls, all be it sometimes in his ear-drums ::) I doubt anyone here would have a crack at Jumping Ceasers on something you should be cruising around the country on in your retirement........
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Re: how did evel kenivel get his name
« Reply #10 on: December 21, 2007, 04:03:09 pm »
 i agree  that guy was the coolest dude , any body who can jump a fountian ,a row off buses anything  on a harley flat tracker  is mr entertainment  way back WHEN   [/color
EVEL I SALUTE YOU   YOU CRAZY MOTHER forkER IF ANY OFF US HAD EVEN ONE BALL THE SIZE  OFF HIS WE WOULD BE DANGEROUS
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Re: how did evel kenivel get his name
« Reply #11 on: December 22, 2007, 04:16:19 am »
Quote from: Freakshow on December 18, 2007, 11:18:19 pm
I have a autograph from evel and earlier in the peice, well for years actually always though it was fake until i relised it actually was evel knievel the way he spelt it, thank christ i didnt throw it out....... i would be slitting my wrist now.

When i was a kid i had a Evel bike and ramp, i wish i knew where that little treasure went, i think its still with my abba poster under the bed, pity i left that house....... ummm what 30 yrs ago
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Freaky, I had the Evel jump bike, or course it ended up jumping off the house too ;D.
Also, just heard Dancing Queen the other day, and daughter says her new fav song, so have to burn a CD for her. Damn, we're like old or something. LOL
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Re: how did evel kenivel get his name
« Reply #12 on: December 22, 2007, 10:11:25 am »
Ask your mother, father, grandmother, grandfather wife or kids and betcha they know of or at least have heard of evil knievil, i agree not so much a good rider but as a showman and self promoter with big balls he was second to none, and for that he has to be considered a legend. 
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Re: how did evel kenivel get his name
« Reply #13 on: January 10, 2008, 11:04:27 pm »
For all the Evil fans Richard Hammond(Top Gear) has a 1 Hour show on next Wednesday 8.30 on SBS.Has all the good stacks by the looks
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Re: how did evel kenivel get his name
« Reply #14 on: January 10, 2008, 11:52:42 pm »
Lock that one in Lozza !
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