{"id":186042,"date":"2023-01-14T00:45:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T00:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/robbie-knievel-daredevil-son-of-evel-knievel-dies-at-60-npr\/"},"modified":"2023-01-14T00:45:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T00:45:15","slug":"robbie-knievel-daredevil-son-of-evel-knievel-dies-at-60-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/robbie-knievel-daredevil-son-of-evel-knievel-dies-at-60-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbie Knievel, daredevil son of Evel Knievel, dies at 60 : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robbie Knievel gives a thumbs up after jumping a train at the Texas State Railroad Park in Palestine, Texas on Feb. 23, 2000. Knievel, an American stunt performer, died early Friday at a hospice in Reno, Nev.
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Robbie Knievel gives a thumbs up after jumping a train at the Texas State Railroad Park in Palestine, Texas on Feb. 23, 2000. Knievel, an American stunt performer, died early Friday at a hospice in Reno, Nev.<\/p>\n

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LAS VEGAS \u2014 Robbie Knievel, an American stunt performer who set records with daredevil motorcycle jumps following the tire tracks of his thrill-seeking father \u2014 including at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in 1989 and a Grand Canyon chasm a decade later \u2014 has died in Nevada , his brother said. He was 60.<\/p>\n

Robbie Knievel died early Friday at a hospice in Reno after battling pancreatic cancer, Kelly Knievel said.<\/p>\n

“Daredevils don’t live easy lives,” Kelly Knievel told The Associated Press. “He was a great daredevil. People don’t really understand how scary it is what my brother did.”<\/p>\n

As a boy, Robbie Knievel began on his bicycle to emulate his famous father, Evel Knievel, who died in 2007 in Clearwater, Florida.<\/p>\n

But where Evel Knievel famously almost died from injuries when he crashed his Harley-Davidson during a jump over the Caesars Palaces in Las Vegas in 1967, Robbie completed the jump in 1989 using a specially designed Honda.<\/p>\n