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: Sounds about right. The reason I asked was
: because there have been people saying that
: it wasn't a hard jump and if so, then, why
: wouldn't someone before GW try to follow EK.
: Personally, I think that jump had a very
: high degree of difficulty with little
: takeoff and landing room and, as you've
: already stated, no ride-by. GW even had to
: start from an oblique. All in all, the fact
: that no one was standing in line that I know
: to negotiate a jump the 13 years between EK
: and GW proves that it was a very difficult
: jump.
: Thanks for the response S.
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: Don't know the answer to that. Actual
: attempts
: four ? Two Knievel's, Well's and Mike
: Metzger's back flip ? I realize the degree
: of difficulty with not being able to do run
: by's but all things considered EK's was the
: only "seat of the pants", hope I
: can jump that far" attempt. Lot of
: science used to calculate other attempts.
: Evel never had the luxury of jumping into a
: foam pit. The science took away the thrill
: of audience anticipation. Who cares about
: seeing someone jump the length of a football
: field when one jumper does it TWICE in 10
: minutes just to prove he can do it ? So,
: with a back flip over the fountains odds are
: we'll never see an actual jump like that
: again.
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: TYPO! I meant 1980 instead of 1983.
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: Does anyone know how many jumpers tried to
: negotiate a jump over the Fountains of
: Caesars Palace between the years 1968 and
: 1983 or after Evel and before Gary Wells?
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