See No Evel

[Kaos]

Evel Knievel was a huge part of my childhood.  Watching him try (and sometimes fail) to clear buses, cars, fountains and ravines was captivating. The dude was super human, 100% American and an IDGAF legend. 

I bought his toys.  I revved them up and ran them over everything in the house.  Had two motorcycles and the snake river rocket.

I built ramps and jumped all kinds of crap on my bike.  I jumped my dad's car, the hedges in my grandmother's yard.  I painted my ramps with the Evel #1 logo.  I did my own version of Snake River when I tried to jump a creek.  It was probably 15-20 feet across and narrowed 10 feet down to the water.  Had a decent crowd from the neighborhood watching. Didn't make it. It was spectacular.

All that to get to this: Travis Pastrana is no Evel. He's a hipster douche fraud.  I resent him putting on Evel's gear.  I'm not impressed with him "recreating" Evel's stunts unless he does so under the same conditions.  Evel rode a custom Harley that weighed over 300 pounds.  X-Game goober Pastrana is riding a customized bike that weighs half what Evel's did, has more hp and more power. The bike he's using retails for $50k even before being tricked up for his use. 

So basically?  Travis can't hold Evel's nut sling.  Screw the stupid X-Games.

Travis Fraud Pastrami will never have one of these: 

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Just the suspension system from the eighties would have made Evel even more successful. His old bikes had horrible suspension!