Yes! (I was There! and Yes! He crashed!)
Is That Evel Kneivel About To Jump A Row Of Buses At Wembley Stadium In The 70’s With A Sausage On His Head?
December 10, 2013 by gingerfightback
December 10, 2013 by gingerfightback
Yes! (I was There! and Yes! He crashed!)
The crash would have been more impressive had he jumped a row of giant sausage with onions and peppers on his head.
Didn’t he break every bone in his body three times?
The flared leathers affected his aerodynamics and hence the crash landing.
At least – old Evel hammed it up like a good un at the end but his Harley must have weighed half a ton and with the flared leathers on his aerodynamics/weight made success almost impossible
Had he kept the sausage for long enough to make it really high, he might have got enough lift to make it!
A fine technical point sadly lost on me!
High as in ponging?
Rancid!
Redifining aerodynamics! ! 🙂
And then crashing…….
Are those little sausage motifs up and down the sides of his pants and jacket?
He was riding a Honda Chippolata too
Ha! He should have drained the sausage grease…little things can make a difference. Fine balancing act
Too true!
Good ole Evil. Amazing you were there.
I was very very young!
The weight of the sausage must have thrown his equilibrium off.
The bike weighed a ton too
Crashing is one thing, but was the sausage damaged?
The skin was grazed – apart from that it was fine
Definitely a relief.
It must have been the sausage that threw him off.
It was meant to be an aero foil apparently Michelle