Depending on how old you are, your motorcycling stunt heroes might be today’s icons like Pol Tarres or Rok Bagoros. However, if you’re a bit (fine, a lot) older, Evel Knievel was undoubtedly the motorcycle stuntman. Knievel was known for his death-defying stunts aboard machines that quite frankly, had no business flying through the air.
Perhaps this whole idea of defying the laws of physics was one of the many things that made Knievel’s stunts so spectacular.
But let’s say that Evel Knievel was a citizen of today’s modern world. What motorcycle would he ride to achieve all those insane stunts? Surely, it would have to be a bike that was designed to take flight—perhaps a lightweight, high-power, 450cc two-stroke MX machine. Or maybe a capable adventure-enduro bike like a Yamaha Tenere 700 a la Pol Tarres.
Whatever the case may be, he most certainly would not ride a Triumph Rocket 3, let alone jump it across a pit full of crocodiles and rattlesnakes, as cool as it may seem. This is probably all for the better, as it most likely would’ve ended in disaster.
But hey, Knievel’s legacy is already so iconic, and what better way to pay tribute to it than with not one, but two special-edition Triumph Rocket 3s decked out in liveries inspired by the legendary stuntman?
