The Triumph Rocket 3 and Bonneville T120 ridden during a parade celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Evel Knievel’s Rocket Jump featured custom paint inspired by Knievel’s stunt bike “Color Me Lucky.” Kelly Knievel, Evel’s son, led the parade aboard the T120 on the right. Fifty years ago, daredevil Evel Knievel performed his legendary Rocket Jump stunt at Twin Falls, Idaho. In celebration of that famous event, Triumph Motorcycles joined the festivities at Twins Falls on September 2024. Robbie “Maddo” Maddison with the custom Triumph Rocket 3 The event was highlighted with Knievel’s son, Kelly, leading the motorcycle parade on a custom-painted Bonneville T120 alongside stunt rider Robbie “Maddo” Maddison on a custom Rocket 3. Another Triumph in the parade, a Speed 400, was ridden by six-time gold medal X Games champ Colby Raha. The inspiration for the custom themes of Kelly and Maddison’s motorcycles was Evel’s original Bonneville T120-TT “Color Me Lucky” – the very motorcycle he used during his 141-foot jump over the Caesar’s Palace fountains in Las Vegas on Dec. 31, 1967. Another Bonneville T120, dubbed the “Skycycle,” was used to promote his planned Grand Canyon jump in 1972. When Knievel couldn’t get the required permission to jump the Grand Canyon, the plan changed to jumping a quarter-mile gap over the Snake River Canyon in 1974. Doug Malewicki, an aeronautical engineer, was tasked with designing and building a “rocket-powered” motorcycle for this feat, called the “Skycycle X-1.” This motorcycle was based on a heavily modified motorcycle chassis and powered by a steam engine built by former NASA engineer Robert Truax. When the X-1 crashed in a test flight, a decision was made to take the wheels off and turn the machine into more of a rocket than motorcycle. Knievel blasted off in the X-2 rocket on September 8, 1974, but it had an issue when the drogue parachute deployed early, resulting in the machine and Knievel inside it landing down in the canyon. Regarding the Bonneville T120 ridden by Kelly Knievel in the parade this year, Kelly said, “this bike is painted up just like ‘Color me Lucky,’ the Triumph he used; it looks great! He always had a soft spot for his T120, said it flew ‘straight as a bullet.’ Robbie’s riding a Triumph Rocket with the same custom paint scheme as this bike, which feels a very appropriate way to celebrate the anniversary.” To see Triumph’s full lineup of motorcycles, visit the Triumph Motorcycles website. The post Triumph Motorcycles Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Evel Knievel’s Rocket Jump appeared first on Rider Magazine.

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