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America's greatest daredevil is gone:  on Friday, November 30 Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel succumbed to lung disease and died at age 69.  It always felt like the world's most famous Harley rider had cheated death for years.

Knievel became an international icon in the '70s with jumps over crazy obstacles, including trucks, buses, live sharks, the fountains at Caesar's Palace, and the Snake River Canyon, though he may be remembered more for his spectacular crashes. With his patriotic caped jumpsuits, he was a fixture on ABC's "Wide World of Sports," his stunts perennial ratings-grabbers.

Immortalized in the Smithsonian Institution as "America's Legendary Daredevil," the 35-40 bones he broke over his death-defying career made the Guinness Book of Records.

Of course, Evel Knievel did not always crash. Statistically, most of his 300-odd jumps were successes. Some of his most celebrated jumps were done aboard a customized 1972 Harley-Davidson XR-750, a light, dependable racing machine capable of reaching 90-100 miles per hour up the takeoff ramp and launching man and machine as far as 165 feet.

"Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world," he once stated. He rode bikes, he said, because life was boring otherwise.

Born in the copper mining town of Butte, Montana, on Oct. 17, 1938, Knievel traced his career choice back to the time he saw Joey Chitwood's Auto Daredevil Show at age 8.

In 1965, while selling motorcycles in Moses Lake, Washington, he did tricks to draw in customers: jumping a car, then a car and a 20-foot box of rattlesnakes, then two cars, rattlers and a mountain lion, until a crowd came to watch him.

"They started out watching me bust my ass, and I became part of their lives," Knievel once said.

His exploits even spawned a few movies. George Hamilton, Kurt Russell and Sam Elliott each portrayed the fearless showman, and Knievel played himself in 1977's fictionalized "Viva Knievel!"

Evel Knievel toys accounted for more than $300 million in sales for Ideal and other companies in the 1970s and '80s.

Knievel retired in 1981, and many of his records have been broken by fellow Harley-riding stuntman Bubba Blackwell, who watched Evel Knievel jump for the first time on television when he was 8, and determined that someday he'd be a daredevil himself.

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