Robbie Knievel

His brother confirmed to The Independent that the daredevil died with his family by his side.

His final stunt was at Coachella in 2011, when he jumped over a series of trucks at the Spotlight 29 Casino. Robbie had followed in his famous father’s footsteps. “He had been in hospice for a couple days with advanced pancreatic cancer,” he said.

Robbie Knievel followed in his father's footsteps and became a prolific daredevil in his own right. Also known as Kaptain Robbie Knievel, he managed to pull off ...

That was a stunt his father had tried and failed over two decades earlier in 1967. "If you look at his jumps, that's what he should be known for. "It was expected," Kelly said.

Second-generation stuntman Robbie Knievel died Friday morning after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 60.

Known to many as Kaptain Robbie Knievel, he was the son of legendary stuntman and thrill show master Evel Knievel. Following in his father’s footsteps he made his first bike jumps when he was 4 years old and went on to perform more than 350 jumps during his career. He set numerous records, including jumping the fountains at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas in 1989.

Robbie Knievel, a record-breaking stunt performer and the son of the stuntman Evel Knievel, died of pancreatic cancer, his brother confirmed.

In 1992, at age 29, he was injured when he crashed into the 22nd of 25 pickup trucks lined up across a 180-foot (55-meter) span in Cerritos, California. "He was a great daredevil. He was with his three daughters.

Robbie Knievel's father, the legendary stuntman Evel Knievel, died in 2007.

"If you look at his jumps, that's what he should be known for. "Daredevils don't live easy lives," his brother said. "It was expected," his brother told CBS News.

Mr. Knievel followed his father, Evel Knievel, into the high-flying, bone-shattering world of motorcycle stunts, jumping the Grand Canyon, a steam train and ...

“My dad struggled with the idea of passing the baton to me,” Mr. “He saw me as one of the many competitors who were trying to outjump him, but in reality I was his biggest fan.” Knievel wrote that he became so anxious that he developed a fever, but he remembered his father’s advice: “It’s normal for you to be nervous. But Evel Knievel remained an enduring influence in his life. Robbie Knievel would entertain crowds with “wheelie shows,” he wrote in the essay, riding around on his back tire before his father’s jumps. Robert Edward Knievel was born on May 7, 1962, in Butte, Mont. Robbie Knievel’s jumps, like his father’s, resulted in many cracked bones, including several vertebrae. Knievel told reporters afterward, a thumb hanging from his leather “RK” belt buckle, The Las Vegas Sun reported. [more than 200 feet over 30 limousines](https://apnews.com/article/a7978b5406822d84742fb88069f0d535) at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. “I had never seen him so emotional.” Knievel, decked out in a star-spangled, white-leather suit, vaulted 150 feet over the fountains at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. Mr.

Robbie Knievel, an American stunt performer who set records with daredevil motorcycle jumps following the tire tracks of his thrill-seeking father, ...

Kelly Knievel lives in Las Vegas. After a crash-landing to complete a motorcycle leap over a 220-foot (61-meter) chasm at an Indian reservation outside Grand Canyon National Park in 1999, Robbie Knievel noted that his father always wanted to jump the spectacular natural landmark in Arizona, but never did. Evel Knievel instead attempted to soar over a mile-wide Snake River Canyon chasm in Idaho in September 1974. In 1992, at age 29, he was injured when he crashed into the 22nd of 25 pickup trucks lined up across a 180-foot (55-meter) span in Cerritos, California. "Daredevils don't live easy lives," Kelly Knievel told The Associated Press. People don't really understand how scary it is what my brother did."

Robbie Knievel, son of legendary stuntman Evel Knievel, has died at the age of 60, his brother, Kelly Knievel told CBS News on Friday.

"If you look at his jumps, that's what he should be known for. "Daredevils don't live easy lives," his brother said. "It was expected," his brother told CBS News.