Robbie Knievel Obituary

An American daredevil and son of stunt performer Evel Knievel, Robert Edward Knievel II who also used the code name “Kaptain Robbie Knievel”

Born in Butte, Montana, he began jumping a bicycle at age four and rode motorcycles at age seven. At age eight, he performed his first show with his father at Madison Square Garden.

Knievel earn his high school education at Central Catholic High School in Butte, Montana between 1975 and 1976, but he never graduated.

His jumping career was different from his father’s, in that Robbie, up until 2009, used high-performance Honda CR500 motocross bikes that have been designed for jumping.

Knievel has made and often replicated Evel’s jumps (including Evel’s 1967 Caesars Palace crash) except for two of his father’s major accomplishments: a Harley-Davidson XR-750 jump and the Snake River Canyon jump using the X-2 Skycycle.

He died on Friday, January 13, 2023, from pancreatic cancer. He was 60.

Knievel’s funeral arrangement is yet to be announced by the family.