Travis Pastrana just had a pretty impressive Sunday. Three jumps in one day, all as a means to both pay homage to Evel Knievel and also to better him. The jumps were a bit longer than Knievel’s, and two of them were quite a bit more successful. If you didn’t catch them, the video above has all three (minus the 2 hours+ of commercials from the live broadcast).
Pastrana pulled off all three jumps while riding an Indian Scout FTR750. He wore the proper leathers. And the temperature in Vegas was well over 100 degrees. Even if Travis makes the jumps look easy, they are anything but.
So what do you think of Pastrana’s homage to Evel Knievel?
Hooniverse Asks: What did you think of Travis Pastrana's tribute to Evel Knievel?
By Jeff Glucker
Jul 9, 2018
By Jeff Glucker
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Kamil Kaluski
I can only imagine the difference in preparation and practice! I wonder how this rates on Pastrana’s personal degree of difficulty? I’m not saying it was easy, just reflecting on how much has changed.
A complete joke. Turned it off after the second jump which he cleared with plenty of room and no issues. Evel was awesome because he was just a guy who attempted stunts with real no training. Travis Pastrana is a pro motorcycle rider with years of racing. Makes it not really comparable.
wouldn’t a professional rider make it the exact opposite of a joke?
Tend to agree. I’d say it raises more questions around the mystique of Evel Knievel as the death defying stuntman if in fact, he was just foolhardy and couldn’t be bothered with a bit of professionalism.
Yeah, not preparing and showing up drunk doesn’t really make you cool… it just makes you a doofus
So he did it on a older Indian and not a modern motocross bike?
I think it’s a factory prepped flat track version of the Scout, roughly (they have a street legal version slated for next year as well).
that’s cool, I was just on the Indian site and it kind of sucks none of the scouts they have for sale even compare
Call me when Pastrana’s pinball machine comes out.