Heck yeah!

No shit..

Exactly 👍

Broken bones when landing on a paved surface.

@@laurenurban3942 Evel said " the asphalt was a tough competitor, it's murder on my body, nothing in the world compares to it". Reference....Evel Knievel last of the Gladiators video.

Lol that's cuz it's old lol it's from crusty's night of world records in like the early to mid 2000s

He made the landing and still broke the bike frame and every bone in his body cracked. You can make the landing but your so high in the air that coming down on any part crushes you and the bike

I can agree with that. Different classes of jumps. You could break it down further by what type of motorcycle was used.

Joe Billielo, the video was uploaded in 09' the quality looks like early 2000's you can just imagine what she looks like now after almost 20yrs 👵

I DATED HER, BUT I FOUND CHATA ORTEGA MUCH BETTER, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT 300 POUNDS OF PURE L9VE. SPOOKY (:

??? X cuse my bong load ...what brand shocks ?..cough cough ha

Yeah really got a video of the jump 😆

Photos yes.No Vidio.My mate did almost as far on a 86 KX250 .The photo was in a 40th edition of dirt bikes in Australia.Back in its day the magazine did not want it.Showing off FMX was not a cool thing back then.Only racing was.

Nonce

Whatever 🙄

I prefer annoying

@@tanseygreen291 Agreed, but I was trying to be nice. On that note, she's fukcing annoying.

A much loved Australian TV presenter , Shelley Craft . Bubbly , good-looking and apparently a really nice person . I've never heard a bad word about her and certainly no scandal .

@@johnniethepom7545 Yes, I already said she was "bubbly." For some this is a euphemism for fuckking annoying/never shuts up. It's not remotely surprising she's as nice and scandal free you say she is.

Until......ur the one dating her then all that bubbliness turns to psychoticness...most likely

No it wasn't it was reckless & stupid, do you even know why he rode Harleys, read his life story & educate yourself. Harley Davidson basically gave him enough money to crash for a living, he freely admits it in his book & he also admits he knew he was going to crash everytime he jumped. It was all about the bullshit American Dream & money, did you know he successfully completed every jump he did on a 650 Triumph Bonneville but Triumph wouldn't pay him to use their bikes.

@@CaptainScarlet1961 even so...Evel was no pussy..call him what you want..he will always be the bravest guy to do what he did. I dont see many snowflakes that would do it.

It IS easy . That's why their doin it

@@timgthatsit6756 Got any video of you doing it, miss armchair 'expert?'

Damn right

rahkin rah you idioti this is 10 yers old man

I'd rather buy the hot chick a beer. Lol

They are nothing compared to you

What?!?

@@MiffetBlue 🤣 no doubt! Serious jibber-jabber

Over 20 feet tall...i think 27ft

Nobody's hating on this video . what's your problem?

Bob, I don't think the producers care if this woman knows a piston from a petcock. She's just there because she can speak on camera and look good. In fact, most of what she's saying is read off of cue cards or a teleprompter, so I wouldn't be too hard on her. That said, bikes can be modified to perform at much higher levels than stock bikes and I'm sure both guys have modified their machines to fit them. I do think the guy on the 250 knew there was a limit to how much his bike could handle. Especially the frame and shocks.

Both bikes were 2 strokes dude

He wrecked quite a few of them too.

Evel also used the same 6' high wedge ramps for every jump too. No giant dirt piles to land on, no curved 20' high transition takeoff ramps. Also, when Evel jumped, Guiness had a rule: the landing ramp could not be bigger than the takeoff in oder to count as a record.

@@Tazz77 in the aprox. 200 jumps he did, he only wrecked 14 times! Learn the facts!

@2Fine2Be Humble all motorcycles were crap back then. But they didn't have these weightless POS dirt bikes back then. So he first started jumping with Triumphs and then switched to Harley's. Getting tired of people acting like they know Soo much about Evel. When they can't even spell his name right. It's "Evel" NOT "Evil"!

@@lauriewagner4349, I'm not buying it. More like 20 times if anything.

nope. all jumps are world records.

@@yz2508 yep

Some of my jumps have been “universe records”.

@@Racer997 Now that was funny!😁

Berry Oakley's wasn't

William Hutchinson Very easy? Haha says the guy who doesn't do shit. And yes knievel was a badass but damn dont downplay these guys!! They have insane balls. Much bigger tha yours. Dont talk shit unless you beat em!

"Very easy to do""? For whom? Yes, these guys have some extreme advantages, such as advanced bike design, computer assisted CAD to build ramps, computer simulations that can run any scenario and calculate angles, horsepower needed, throttling, braking, distance, etc...then combine all the data together to run 100 or 1000 of the best set up scenario that will predict odds of success. And yes, Evel was essentially a man with a slightly modified Harley jumping with ramps build by journeymen carpenters who just eyed everything up. All the data was calculated with pencil and paper and Evel was no math wiz. He based his set up on his past jumps. While Evel had it much harder, you can't bash these guys. They are very talented and after the last jump, the guy knew that was it. One more and his bike would have come apart on landing. The pain he experienced was real and I wouldn't be surprised if he found out later that he had in fact cracked or broken some bones. I grew up watching Evel and loved him. He did some amazing things with old technology and primitive situations. But, you have to admit, sometimes Evel was either stupid, or crazy. I know for a fact that there were some jumps he knew were going to turn out bad, but he didn't want to disappoint the fans. The only jump that really bothered me was the Snake River "jump", which began fine, but ended up as just him strapped in a rocket. It seemed like he was selling himself out by the time he did it and I thought he would easily make it in a rocket, but as we know, it failed and could have ended as his most tragic. I think that failure was also due to rudimentary and primitive planning/engineering. As I said, I loved Evel and will always view him as the #1 bike jumper of all time, but I also respect the new guys, even Robbie made jumps look easy as compared to his father. One thing I think is appropriate is that many of these guys give lots of credit and respect to Evel.

@@scottmcman7659 the reason why Evel's Skycycle didn't make it was bcs the parachute was pulled out by a bad design on the takeoff ramp. Therefore, the Skycycle didn't pickup the speed that it should have as it was taking off. Mr. Truax (sp) , the Engineer from NASA that built the Skycycle, took the blame for the poor parachute design and for the hole Grand Canyon project failing. I watched his stunts while growing up in the "70s. I was a tomboy! And I grew up riding and jumping dirt bikes.

@@lauriewagner4349 - Here's the problem with the entire scenario. It was not a "skycycle". Oh, it started out that way and I was really into the first prototype, but, by the time the stunt came, it no longer resembled a motorcycle in any way. It was nothing more than a rocket launch. Extremely disappointing to me. However, as you come back to reality, you realize that even if a motorcycle were shot out of a cannon, it likely wouldn't make it 1,600 ft. I don't know if you remember, but stuntman Eddie Braun did in fact succeed in replicating Evel's jump with the same setup, albeit likely updated electronics and a parachute that wasn't going to malfunction. Then again, when you strap a rocket on, 1,600 ft should be the least you can do. Evel once said: "I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much." Bur, that's what made it more exciting. Knowing this guy had little technical aspects to his jumps. He just went out and jumped. I'm sure he could have hired a team of experts that would have helped him to be more successful, but he wasn't like that.

70 .s different than 2000 .s . Better bike off course but 2 stroke..if your motor broken.. you are dead... you need bigs ball... in 2020 it s 4 stroke.. you go longer but nobody want to see that.. they prefer watching netflix or playstation 5..

SIX foot ramps is what Evel used. No curved transition either. Landing ramp was only 8 feet wide too. No margin for error.

James Blythe XR 750 that was never designed to leave the ground.

Why?

That geometry and those physics just don't jive with what the talent here, or even riders after this, are/were doing on a motorcycle.🤷‍♂️

But what evil did was great and all back in his day, it wouldn't be that entertaining to see it today. Plus, it's just plain stupid to jump a harley lol

@Kathy R. and Clifton James. you both are idiots and don't know what your talking about!

@@lauriewagner4349: And you do I suppose, were you even born when Evel Knievel was jumping bikes!

I always knew 250+ foot jumps on a dirt bike, at 70-80 mph, launching off of a ramp as tall as a house was too safe. Maybe they should try it on a BMX bike instead, to really make it challenging.🤔

Dumbest comment

Wrong Australia--Robbie Maddison

Amen bro

DJ JDB you can't do that on a harley dude wtf? Lol evil crashed ALL the time because he was on a harley, not to mention all his ramp setups were crap. If these guys were riding harleys they would be dead....If long distance jumpers all switched to jumping Harleys they would never even break 90ft...

joe will help you: Precisely my point! LOL.. And Evel didn't crash "all the time".

@Kathy R.: What are you babbling about? lol.

@Kathy R.: I was just saying you dingbat! lol. Evel used heavy iron bikes. Tell me where I am wrong? Nonetheless, it was Evel that paved the way!

Amen! DJ JDB

Damn Right

I done 390mm on my BMX when I was 9

*record's

AND OF COURSE THIS WAS ATTEMPTED BY CRUSTY DEMONS WELL SHIT.

That's what all 250 rider/owners all say. Yes yz or cr250's are fast but they don't come close too the torque of a big two stroke they are great fun as are the 250's but the 500 two strokes with someone who can ride are a world apart, great for hill climbing. I love them.