Do you remember Evil Can Evil? Or maybe just know the name by reputation?

Evil was a daredevil stunt rider back in the late 60s and into the 70s motorcycle.

He did these incredible one-of-a-kind motorcycle jumps and back in the day

there was nothing like it. No one was doing anything close to what he was doing.

His most famous was at Caesar's Palace, the casino, 141 feet.

He would run up a homemade ramp and then 141 feet going over the fountains in front of Caesar's

Palace and then he was supposed to

land on a ramp on the other side to go down. He didn't make it. He crashed. He broke a

bunch of bones. He ended up in the hospital. Luckily he lived. The whole hospital thing turned

out to be an amazing PR event for him that made him incredibly well known. That was a

difficult jump that, as I said said had never been done before and when you look at it from the outside you would assume you would expect that there is some serious engineering going on in the background. But there wasn't. There were no engineers.

There were no scientists saying set the ramp at this angle, get to the speed, the ramp should be this long,

the bike should weigh this. Nope, evil Knievel was shooting from the hip.

He just came up with an idea and then went for it, went the way that he thought it should go.

And he may have broken 35 or more bones, depends on who you ask, and up to

433 fractures.

433, but it kind of worked for him.

I mean here we are five decades later still

talking about him. Israel Gillette who we have on today considers himself a

motorcycle maniac. Now he doesn't say anything about Evel Knievel, but I think

is real Gillette, and again this is me, he didn't mention anything about this at all, but I think

he is more in common with Evel Knievel than he does with the average motorcycle overlander.

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