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-p...