After much fanfare and mounting anticipation,Travis Pastranasuccessfully honored iconic stuntman Evel Knievel on Sunday, completing three of the late daredevils most famous stunts.
First, Pastrana traveled 143 feet to clear 52 crushed cars on an Indian Scout motorcycle. Next, he flew 192 feet over 16 Greyhound buses on the motorcycle, before clearing149 feet over the Caesars Palace fountains in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Knievel attempted more than 75 jumps on his motorcycle before his death from pulmonary heart disease in 2007 at age 69.
Ahead of the show, Pastrana admitted that though he was both nervous and excited, jumping the fountains and recreating Knievel’s other stunts would be the culmination of a childhood dream for him.
He added of the special, “Our main goal is to help promote active lifestyles and basically, action sports. Getting kids off the couch and riding their BMX bikes or their skateboards and help older generations of people to understand these are real sports now. At the same time, we get to honor a legend and I get to step up and see if I can actually fly a tank.”
source: people.com
