{"id":368789,"date":"2018-07-10T13:02:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T12:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/evel-knevel-would-be-proud\/"},"modified":"2018-07-10T13:02:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T12:02:12","slug":"evel-knevel-would-be-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/evel-knevel-would-be-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"Evel Knevel Would Be Proud"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Travis Pastrana succeeded in repeating three of Evel Knievel\u2019s most famous motorcycle jumps on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Donning his own Knievel-like costume, Pastrana used an Indian Scout FTR750 to jump 143 feet to clear 52 crushed cars, 192 feet over 16 Greyhound buses and concluded by jumping 149 feet to clear the fountains at Caesars Palace.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just such an honor to live a day in Evel\u2019s footsteps, and literally his boots,\u201d Pastrana said. \u201cTo be here in\u00a0Las Vegas<\/a>, so much of my history has been here. I proposed to my wife here, I had [the] first Nitro Circus show here. This was definitely the coolest thing I\u2019ve ever done.\u201d<\/p>\n

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First record-breaking jump by @TravisPastrana<\/a>! #EvelLive<\/a> @NitroCircus<\/a> @CaesarsPalace<\/a> 🏆 pic.twitter.com\/3q1VSLJquf<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 HISTORY (@HISTORY) July 9, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Pastrana, who is nearing the end of an impressive career as a stunt showman and professional motorsports competitor, admitted he was nervous leading up to the event, which began in an empty lot behind off Las Vegas\u2019s famous Strip.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is all about\u00a0Evel, and the coolest thing about this whole thing, all of\u00a0Evel\u2019s family is out here,\u201d said Pastrana, whose outfit included a white jumpsuit with the blue V and white stars, a cape and high heel dress boots. \u201cThis is the home of the most iconic jump, one of the most iconic events that has ever gone down. And to end at Caesars Palace, to have a chance to jump the fountain.\u00a0 It\u2019s not the longest jump but it\u2019s definitely the hardest.\u201d<\/p>\n

After his first two jumps over the cars and buses, Pastrana had a police escort while riding the same motorcycle along Las Vegas Boulevard all while popping wheelies and stopping to high-five and shake hands with fans<\/p>\n

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Travis Pastrana succeeded in repeating three of Evel Knievel\u2019s most famous motorcycle jumps on Sunday night. Donning his own Knievel-like costume, Pastrana used an Indian Scout FTR750 to jump 143 feet to clear 52 crushed cars, 192 feet over 16 Greyhound buses and concluded by jumping 149 feet to clear the fountains at Caesars Palace. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-368789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}