I tuned in and the best part of the boring 1 1/2 hours was seeing archived footage of past jumpers, Evel of course included. Yes Axell did make a unsuccessful humongous jump ramp to ramp and crashed last week...BUT successfully made the same jump 21 times the previous day. Sorry but the WOW factor is gone with these "TRIBUTE"...gonna make a lot of money Red Bull nitro Circus Fiascos. Evels records ARE NOT being broken. Travis, climb on a pretty much stock old XR-750, build a huge vertical take off ramp inside a stadium and jump 13 buses on a non computerized designed take off ramp. Land on a ramp not big enough to land small planes on. I showed too much praise here on the Live Evel 1 jumps considering he had practiced and made EVERY jump multiple time in the huge Red Bull desert complex with huge airbags as a precaution.Are these young riders talented ? Extremely.Kelly Knievel threw the commentator a curve he couldn't handle last night with his factual statement. " I NEVER SAW MY DAD CRASH IN A PRACTICE JUMP". Matthew Mcconaughey nailed it with his off the cuff comment about Evel in "I AM Evel Knievel"...it was pretty much man on steel with a engine, lets get it on. I won't tune into anymore Evel "tributes". Robbie either refuses to participate or they don't ask him. Regardless he hasn't been shown or mentioned in either show.
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