Urban DH In Butte, Montana

Over this past weekend a talented crew of riders and builders gathered in Uptown with no adult supervision - with a mini-ex, a skidsteer, the keys to the county water truck (given to us by the mayor who is married to Knievel's daughter), piles of good, free dirt and a whole bunch of imagination.



We set out to build a DH course with no real oversight or rules. It's roughly 1.3 miles long with 500 feet of elevation drop. Out of civic pride a neighbour near the course offered up his broke down Camaro to jump over - so we drug it out of his yard and built a gap over it. My face still hurts from grinning all day.



Holy crap - it's going to be outrageous. It's legit, FAST and cheesy. Nothing ever like it before - and perhaps never again. Full commando productions with the city's blessings. Oh yeah, there will be a pit of rattlesnakes with a hip jump over it...

The 13th Annual Evel Knievel Days kick off today and run through to Saturday night in Butte, Montana. More information on the festival can be found at www.evelknieveldays.org.

Words and Images by Bob Allen.