knievelCLEARWATER, Fla. — Evel Knievel, the red white and blue spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, the Caesar’s Palace Fountain, live sharks and Idaho’s Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.

The pain is now gone, buddy - see ya on down the road.