Robbie Knievel offers a thumbs up after leaping a practice on the Texas State Railroad Park in Palestine, Texas on Feb. 23, 2000. Knievel, an American stunt performer, died early Friday at a hospice in Reno, Nev.

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Robbie Knievel offers a thumbs up after leaping a practice on the Texas State Railroad Park in Palestine, Texas on Feb. 23, 2000. Knievel, an American stunt performer, died early Friday at a hospice in Reno, Nev.

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LAS VEGAS — Robbie Knievel, an American stunt performer who set information with daredevil motorbike jumps following the tire tracks of his thrill-seeking father — together with at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in 1989 and a Grand Canyon chasm a decade later — has died in Nevada, his brother mentioned. He was 60.

Robbie Knievel died early Friday at a hospice in Reno after battling pancreatic most cancers, Kelly Knievel mentioned.

“Daredevils don’t live easy lives,” Kelly Knievel instructed The Associated Press. “He was a great daredevil. People don’t really understand how scary it is what my brother did.”

As a boy, Robbie Knievel started on his bicycle to emulate his well-known father, Evel Knievel, who died in 2007 in Clearwater, Florida.

But the place Evel Knievel famously virtually died from accidents when he crashed his Harley-Davidson throughout a bounce over the Caesars Palace fountains in Las Vegas in 1967, Robbie accomplished the bounce in 1989 utilizing a specifically designed Honda.

Robbie Knievel additionally made headline-grabbing Las Vegas Strip jumps over a row of limousines in 1998 on the Tropicana Hotel; between two buildings on the Jockey Club in 1999; and a New Year’s Eve bounce amid fireworks in entrance of a volcano attraction at The Mirage on Dec. 31, 2008.

After a crash-landing to finish a motorbike leap over a 220-foot (61-meter) chasm at an Indian reservation exterior Grand Canyon National Park in 1999, Robbie Knievel famous that his father all the time wished to leap the spectacular pure landmark in Arizona, however by no means did. Robbie Knievel broke his leg in his crash.

Evel Knievel as an alternative tried to soar over a mile-wide Snake River Canyon chasm in Idaho in September 1974. His rocket-powered cycle crashed into the canyon whereas his escape parachute deployed.

Robbie Knievel’s brother recalled different stunts together with a 2004 bounce over a row of navy plane on the deck of the plane provider USS Intrepid, a museum in New York.

Robbie Knievel, who promoted himself as “Kaptain Robbie Knievel,” set a number of stunt information, but in addition failed in a number of makes an attempt. In 1992, at age 29, he was injured when he crashed into the twenty second of 25 pickup vans lined up throughout a 180-foot (55-meter) span in Cerritos, California.

“Injuries took quite a toll on him,” Kelly Knievel mentioned Friday.

Kelly Knievel lives in Las Vegas. He mentioned his brother died with three daughters at his facet: Krysten Knievel Hansson of Chicago, Karmen Knievel of Missoula, Montana, and Maria Collins of Waldport, Oregon.

Services weren’t instantly scheduled, however Kelly Knievel mentioned his brother can be buried with different relations in Butte, Montana.