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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The lad of legendary daredevil Evel Knievel, Robbie Knievel, died connected Friday greeting aft a crab battle, TMZ reports.
Robbie Knievel was a Las Vegas fable erstwhile it comes to daredevil motorcycle stunts. His database of high-profile jumps includes his celebrated Caesars Palace leap successful 1989, the aforesaid leap his begetter tried to bash successful 1967.
Las Vegas, Nevada: Robbie Knievel successfully jumps his motorcycle implicit the fountains astatine Caesar’s Palace, April 14th, becoming the archetypal idiosyncratic to bash truthful and avenging his fathers’, Evel Knievel, ill-fated attempts. The 26-year-old Knievel flew the motorcycle astir 160 feet earlier a assemblage of thousands. (Getty Images)Other Las Vegas jumps see launching implicit 30 limousines (231 feet) astatine the Tropicana Hotel and Casino successful 1998. In 1999 helium besides jumped 130 feet betwixt the 2 towers of the Jockey Club connected the Strip.
Robbie Knievel’s past televised motorcycle leap was besides present successful Las Vegas connected Dec. 31, 2008, erstwhile helium jumped 200 feet successful beforehand of the Mirage volcano.
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