Originally published at: Robbie Knievel, son of Evel Knievel, has died at age 60 | Boing Boing
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Evel Knievel was one of my childhood heroes, although I never really followed Robbie’s career. His dad died of pulmonary disease at 69. It’s amazing neither one of them died from any of their stunts, considering some of the ridiculous things they managed to pull off. They were both some crazy cats.
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I never saw his father make a jump but I seen Robbie do two of them.
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I grew up with Evel Knievel on Wide World of Sports.
Here’s Robbie with his dad at Kings Island in 1975. They ride some wheelies together. The whole video is cool vintage stuff but he introduces Robbie at 12:50.
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You could say he was the spawn of Evel.
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It seems like this is a bad week to be the child of a long-passed celebrity of yesteryear. Dweezil Zappa might want to be careful.
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Almost seems like they should have tried some nigh- impossible stunt once they knew they were going out. Like some “well of course they died, I’d be shocked if they lived” type shit.
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I’ll show myself out.
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