thanks for the post.
The City now owns the jump site. They did a land trade with the former owner. The City made the deal on the land in case there would ever be money for a viewing site and partial re-building of the launch pad and then put a fake x2 rocket on it. There still is allot of bad blood from before as it seems everyone in town thinks that Evel stiffed them. I am staying out of that whole deal as that was almost 40 years ago. What I can tell you is that we are moving forward in fact I meet this Wed and Thursday with Doug Malewicki and his team in California about the Canyon jump and others in the future.
Actually my Evel experience was in Hutchinson, Kansas State Fair AMA FLAT TRACK Motorcycle races in 1971 and Evel was riding an old iron barrel XR (same one he used for his 19 car jump) and he was jumping over Kenworth's because at that time he was sponsored by them.
I am thinking that is where he met the Ratliff brothers as they started helping him after that. They were from Wichita and worked for the Harley dealer Hugo Shea who had hired Evel to jump. Hugo also put on races in Oklahoma City and Evel jumped there also and in Wichita, Kansas later.
Thanks again for your posting and I appreciate your interest.
Seeya!
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: Hi big Ed Jesse here hope your weekend is
: going good
: Thanks for giving us an update I have a
: question for you
: Will the twin falls city turn snake river
: canyon jump site be
: Turned into a national park after the jump
: is over I do know
: That was suppose to happen when Robbie had
: jumped snake
: River weather he failed or completed I guess
: Robbie dident play his cards right with this
: canyon jump
: Well big Ed please come to south tx and jump
: would love to
: Show you my collection and daredevil footage
: I got I also
: Saw where you saw evel jump ten Mack trucks
: as a kid for
: Me would have been the viva knievel movie
: best of luck to
: You big Ed and sending prayers your way that
: you get to jump
: The canyon and achieve a dream
: Jesse
: --Previous Message--
: Just wanted to say a huge Thank You to my
: Snake River Canyon Team including Doug
: Malewicki. Doug was Evel's first engineer
: and he has joined as well as 4 other of his
: aerospace friends and I am starting to feel
: like we can do this thing without killing
: the bike and me.
: I have a great team working on all that is
: to be done with the government paper work
: and designing. More will be on our Big Ed
: Snake River Canyon Jump face book site.
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BIG Ed Beckley
Holt TIGHT till your knuckles TURN WHITE!242
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