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Snapshots of Kids Bike Jumping in the 1970s

Back in the 1970s (and before), parents didn’t stress about our health and safety as much as they do today. It’s not that they cared less – they just didn’t worry obsessively about it. It’s a far guess to say that some of the kids seen bike jumping and being bike jumped (which is the … Continue reading "Snapshots of Kids Bike Jumping in the 1970s"

are parents now – which means that they survived and can recall how less restricted, less supervised, less obsessively safety-conscious things were – and it was fine. By the late 1960s, Evel Knievel was the world’s greatest motorcycle daredevil, a man who had jumped over 13 double-decker buses in London, a canyon in Idaho… and sometimes he missed. As he said: “My failures had a lot to do with my fame … You know, I had a couple hundred jumps in my career, and I made most of them, but the ones they show over and over are the ones when I crashed….

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