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Evel Knievel

July 2018

  • Travis Pastrana jumps the fountain at Caesars Palace on a Sunday night in Las Vegas

    Travis Pastrana replicates three of Evel Knievel’s most famous jumps in one night

    Travis Pastrana succeeded in repeating three of Evel Knievel’s most famous motorcycle jumps on Sunday night

May 2016

  • Evel Knievel dies aged 69<br>Stuntman Evel Knievel attempting to jump a row of buses during his display at Wembley Stadium. The hard-living US motorcycle daredevil, who jumped over 13 buses at the stadium, has died. He was 69. FBI files released after his death have linked Knievel to a string of assaults.

    Evel Knievel museum a giant leap in understanding daredevil's stunts

    Visitors to the Topeka, Kansas, exhibition will learn about the physics behind death-defying motorcycle stunts – and try their own, using virtual reality

April 2016

  • Bringing the discussion into the here and now … Workers Or Shirkers? Ian Hislop’s Victorian Benefits.

    TV tonight
    Thursday’s best TV: Workers Or Shirkers? and How to Stay Young

    Ian Hislop’s potted history of state welfare; and try the ‘sit and rise’ test to keep that youthful glow. Plus: GI Janes take training and Evel Knievel’s transformation from scoundrel to petrol-powered Elvis

September 2015

  • Evel Knievel

    Darren Aronofsky set to direct Channing Tatum as Evel Knievel

    Black Swan film-maker to steer motorbike stunt rider project based on a script by The Fighter’s Scott Silver, after departure of Peter Berg

July 2015

  • Don't try this at home … Robbie Knievel flies over a gap across Arizona's Grand Canyon on 20 May, 1999 before crashing and sustaining injuries.

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs about safety … and danger

    Hot spillages to electrifying risks, broken glass to scary stunts, name your songs that include details of physical danger and ways to stay away from harm, says Peter Kimpton

May 2014

  • The Trip to Bountiful

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best Greyhound bus moments

    As the American coach company turns 100, Guy Lodge chooses its 10 best celebrations in film, art and song

May 2010

  • From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 27 May 1975: My last leap, Evel Knievel

    Originally published in the Guardian on 27 May 1975: Evel Knievel reached a grim end to his career as the world's most spectacular stunt jumper yesterday afternoon when he jumped over 13 side-by-side London buses on his motorcycle, somersaulted off at 80mph just after landing, and finished unconscious with his machine on top of him

October 2009

  • watch me fall

    Watch Me Fall

    Warwick Arts Centre
    This DIY recreation of Evel Knievel's Caesar's Palace jump is a fascinating essay on American machismo, writes Lyn Gardner

October 2008

  • Stuntman Evel Knievel attempting to jump a row of buses, 1975

    Evil Knievel? FBI suspected involvement in beatings

    Stunt rider Evel Knievel threatened to sue US government if they charged him for involvement with crimes

December 2007

  • YouTube archive
    The Blackburn cheerleader, Evel Knievel and polevaulting gone bad

    Our YouTube round-up showcases some shocking Ewood Park dancing, some famous motorbike stunts and Phil Collins v Ultimate Warrior

  • Evel Knievel

    Obituary: Daredevil showman and stunt rider, he epitomised the American huckster

  • Daredevil Evel Knievel dies at 69

    Evel Knievel, who earned worldwide fame for his bone-shattering motorcycle stunts and star-spangled white jumpsuits, collapsed and died yesterday at his home in Florida

November 2007

  • Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel dies aged 69

    Evel Knievel, the motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, has died aged 69

October 2005

  • The judge's tale

    John Sutherland

    'I felt like Evel Knievel preparing to jump over the Grand Canyon'. John Sutherland on chairing of the judging panel of this year's Man Booker prize.

May 1999

  • Grand Canyon jump

    Robbie Knievel, son of the motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel, became the first person to jump the Grand Canyon on a motorbike when he cleared a 60-metre (200ft) chasm to break his own distance record.
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