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For starters Two Motorcycle Icons have left us. The world will not be the same without them .
Bud Ekins, 77; iconic stuntman did the motorcycle jump in 'The Great Escape'

 Bud was the guy who made the Jump in the Steve McQueen Movie the Great Escape. He was also one of the best racers of his day. Wining Gold Medals in the International Six Day Trials and the man who introduced Motocross to the USA.  He was so dedicated to Bikes that he sold more new Triumphs than anyone in the world and Taught his young daughters to say the Alphabet by naming a motorcycle for every letter. Ace, Bultaco, Cyclone, Douglas and so on. He was a wonderful man who defined the idea of a tough guy. He will be missed By all.
   

By JOHN ROGERS,
Posted: 2007-12-03 20:21:00
Filed Under: Nation News
LOS ANGELES (Dec. 3) - Of all the bones Evel Knievel broke over the years, the costliest may have been the left arm of a PR man by the name of Shelly Saltman.

Saltman won $12.75 million in damages against Knievel after the motorcycle daredevil attacked him with a baseball bat in 1977 in a rage over a book Saltman had written about the showman.


 
AP 

Sheldon "Shelly" Saltman sits in a Los Angeles hospital bed in 1977 after daredevil Evel Knievel shattered his arm with a bat because he was upset over a book Saltman had written about him. Saltman won a settlement for $12.75 million. With interest, the still-uncollected sum has grown to more than $100 million by Saltman's estimate, and he intends to try to collect it.

"We are going hot and heavy after his estate," Saltman told The Associated Press after Knievel died Friday at 69. "What he tried to do to me and how it hurt my family, I'm owed that."

Whether Knievel's estate has that kind of money is unclear.

Knievel's son Kelly would not discuss the size of his father's estate or comment on the dispute. The daredevil's longtime friend and promoter, Billy Rundle, declined to discuss the incident in detail. Knievel's widow, Krystal, was not granting interviews.

Although little remembered today, the incident made headlines worldwide when the death-defying motorcyclist approached Saltman in the parking lot of 20th Century Fox on Sept. 21, 1977, and suddenly started swinging a bat. Saltman, then a studio executive, raised his arm to protect his head, a move he says doctors told him probably saved his life.

His arm was shattered and is held together to this day with a steel plate and screws.



Chris O'Meara, AP

Evel Knievel, the daredevil motorcyclist who suffered nearly 40 broken bones before he retired in 1980, died Friday at 69. He's shown above in 2006.