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JimH:

--- Quote ---Daredevil Evel Knievel, who dodged death in spectacular motorcycle leaps and crashes in a life full of showmanship, died on Friday at age 69....

Knievel's greatest stunt turned out to be a failure when on September 8, 1974, he tried to ride a rocket-powered motorcycle across the Snake River Canyon in Idaho.  With a pay-per-view television audience watching, the parachute deployed when his Skycycle X-2 was only two-thirds across, sending the cycle into the canyon wall.  It landed partly in the river but Knievel walked away with minor injuries.

For a jump over 13 double-decker buses in London's Wembley Stadium in 1975, he was paid $1 million, a fortune at the time, according to Maxim.

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KingSparta:
I heard that on my way home from work

I always wondered what he was smoking when he said he was going to jump the grand canyon.

I tried to modify my bike I bought for $6 with a banana seat with small solid rockets (you can still buy them at toys R us).

I never did try the grand canyon jump with them.

JimH:
I didn't get any farther than using clothes pins to fasten playing cards to the front fork on both sides, so they made a rat-a-tat-a-tat sound.  I thought I was very slick.

It might have been my finest moment.

KingSparta:
My science teacher may have contributed to my delinquency.

Due to he worked on the first space shuttle prototype in the mid 60's, and we launched rockets as a school science project.

Note: I put a frog in my rockets nose cone to test the effects of gravity on a frog at about 2,000 feet.

Griff:

--- Quote ---using clothes pins to fasten playing cards to the front fork on both sides, so they made a rat-a-tat-a-tat sound
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Boy, do you bring back memories.

Did you ever try the balloon trick?

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