For some reason, this was one of the best toys ever. It consisted of a replica Evel Knievel with his bike and a red box with a handle. The rear wheel of the bike plugged into the box and turning the handle spun a flywheel inside the box which made both very cool revving sounds and spun the rear wheel of Mr. Knievel's bike.
Once you'd got the screaming revving noise of the thing as high pitched as you possibly could you pressed and button and the World's greatest stunt cyclist was unleashed! In the adverts he did wheelies, zoomed across the floor and sped up ramps to jump over a line of toy buses.
In your bedroom, however, he turned a quick half circle before falling over, ran straight into the wardrobe or fell over immediately and lay there wiggling about as the rear wheel spent its momentum and whirred to a stop. I'm not sure why but the Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle is still very, very cool and one of the best toys I ever owned.
I remember the cool girls at school having the toy of Evil Knievel's sister, Derry Daring, which came with a pink motorbike and helmet and also did stunt - but obviously no where near as dangerous as Evel Knievel!
Do You Remember Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle?
Do You Remember Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle?
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answer to bevs question,the name of the female stunt girl was Derry Daring this was also made by ideal. i had a few evel stunt bikes and were amazing.i collect the originals now.
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I loved my Evel Stunt bike soooo much, my mum rationed my use of it!!! I also have a memory of the stunt ramp coming in two colours. I had the red one and a mate of mine had a blue one.
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best toy i ever owned. had the most fun juming everything my friends and i could find.had the camper the car,and even saw evel jump in Toronto in 1974.God bless my dad for taking me to that and to see the movie viva knievel. no one not even Elvis was as cool as Evel Knievel.They recently reissued this thing.i just bought one for my 5 year old for this X -mas. i can hardley wait.now if they would only bring back the 1/32 scale strombecker race car sets...Thank God for children.
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I smashed my brothers Evel Kneivel into a wall and Evils bike broke , the red winder also stopped working properly so i put it all back in my brothers toy box and said nothing more about it!!
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i had one and it was magic! now i want another one........ebay!!!!!!!!!! gonna snipe me a evil.
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oh and another thing.....Mom didn't like it when we used to do burnouts on our kitchen floor. The tires were actual rubber and provided for some really cool tracks across the floor.....agreed, Best Toy Ever.....even progressed up to jumping my own bike over our cat house.....(kinda like a dog house, but for cats...;-)
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Drove my Dad nuts my brother and I did. In the dining room near our TV room where pops was relaxing after a hard day. The two of us winding those things up. We used encylcopedias and the boards from our favorite table games (chutes and ladders, candyland) to send the bikes flying everywhere....jumped the Tonka trucks and my GI Joe's. Best time of my childhood....just bought two retro bikes online for my brother and I...can't wait to jump them again!
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I didn`t have one
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Answer to question posted here by "Bev" December 05 - the "lady" version of this toy was put out by a different company. It was much smaller, and actually a different design, but equally fun to play with. As I recall, it used an air pump to rev up the little bikes rear wheel. I believe the toy was called the "Debbie Lawler Stunt Cycle". Debbie was a real female motorcycle jumper in the US at the same time as Knievel. She held the world record for female motorcycle jumping, and was often known as "the flying angel". Unfortunately she crashed during a jump in 1975 and was seriously injured. I think that ended her jumping career. although she is still with us today. I had both Evel Knievel and Debbie Lawler toys in about 1974-75. They were the best! Ray (USA)
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Mr K always used to stop being able to being bent into shape as the wire inside him used to break and it was like broken knees! Still it was one of the best Xmas pressies I got and myself and my mate Peter G used to try to make stunts for him and then try and copy them on our bikes! Many cuts and grazes and bruises later we stopped doing that and got into girls and KISSCHASE and runouts.
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