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: Yeah Robbie came up short . Used the wrong
: gearing so he could'nt get the speed up .
: Gary had to make a right hand turn at about
: 75 MPH on a dirt bike. They actually had to
: make an asphalt berm . Gary DOES fall into
: the Ramp -Ramp cat. Only recently has he
: stooped using one. Evel coming up short was
: not the whole reason he crashed , The safety
: deck failing was the biggest factor .
: Altough he goes over the bars he first goes
: back from then rear wheel hitting the edge
: of the Landing ramp . Hit's the Chute Box
: Then over the bars. Mike had to do only
: about 40+ to make it
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: Ek came up just short of making it. I'm not
: sure what happened to Wells but I don't
: believe anybody moved his landing ramp
: during the night as he claimed. RK made it
: successfully but Evel claimed Robbie hit the
: safety ramp which Evel strongly suggested he
: use. The video looks like he may have been a
: little short, hard to tell. Hitting the
: safety ramp still results in crashing most
: times I think. Those three jumps were
: 150-160 feet from what I've read. Metger's
: big ramps were supposedly 125' apart. So
: three very good conventional ramp to ramp
: jumpers (Wells doesn't really fall into a R
: to R jumper category) tried and only one
: walked away. Still amazes me that Evel
: survived that crash.
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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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