Originally published at: Modern-day Evel Knievel fails miserably | Boing Boing
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Failing spectacularly would be more Knievel
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This man is no Evel Knievel.
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Don’t know why but that simply made me laugh out loud.
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I wish him well in his new found love for broken bones. Good luck Son!
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“Introduction to protective equipment 101”
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Pain is a great education.
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I just spent a couple weeks in Mexico and jesus fucking christ I would be so afraid to ride a motorcycle on cobblestone roads with flipflops and a swimsuit as my protection but scores of folks do it every day. Locals and tourists.
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Too true
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I think he’s ready to move up to a rocket-powered “skycyle” now.
[ETA: I was just a kid at the time so it never occurred to me then, but the entire idea of “oh, he’s going to cross a deep canyon using a rocket” is kind of . . unremarkable. You’d expect a rocket to clear a canyon no problem. Except he didn’t make it. It was a spectacular failure.]
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Sigh. Did he never hear that old adage, “Look before you leap”?
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i was shocked to see he had shoes on
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I’m impressed he made it to the far side of the pool.
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That’s at least as funny as Johnny BlueJeans and his bicycle leap over Evil Knievel. (search for “Viva Variety” TV series)
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The minute the car passed by at the beginning of the video, my only thought was, “he’s going to do something that’s going to cause him to be hit by a car, isn’t he?” Close enough. I just feel sorry for the driver of the car.
I mean, it’s totally comedy: the set-up (and confounding) of expectations, the comedic timing is pretty good, and then that yelp at the end…
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Why do these videos always end just as things get interesting?
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I did a bicycle trip in Mexico a couple of decades ago. We started from Puerto Vallarta on the cobblestone road by the waterfront. My road bike had skinny 700 x 20 tires and it scared the crap out of me for a couple of blocks. Like most new things it became easy to ride the cobblestone and brick roads once I relaxed my death grip on the handlebars and trusted my cycling experience. I was grateful that I had swapped out the aluminum front fork for a carbon fibre one before the trip.
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More like Hot Rod actually
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Me too. I would be fucking pissed.
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