Daredevil Evel Knievel is a household name. But did you know he had a son?
At ETR, we certainly didn’t! That’s why we mistakenly attributed one of this son’s most astounding accomplishments to his father.
Like father, like son. Robbie Knievel is also a daredevil. And he managed to accomplish a feat his father never could: jumping the Grand Canyon.
Evel plotted to sail across the Grand Canyon back in 1968. But the U.S. government wouldn’t have it. As a substitute, Evel tried to jump the Snake River Canyon, crashing when his parachute malfunctioned.
Thirty years later, Robbie resurrected his father’s Grand Canyon stunt. According to It Happened at Grand Canyon by Todd R. Berger, Robbie “jumped a narrow, shallow side canyon of Grand Canyon on his 500-cc motorcycle.” Narrow as it was, Robbie’s May 1999 jump spanned a record breaking 228 feet.
(Source: Evel Knievel: An American Hero, Crawling From the Wreckage
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