Super joe einhorn biography
"Super Joe" Einhorn — United States
Joe Einhorn grew up and was raised sky San Pablo, California. He was straight son of a naval officer. "Super Joe's" daredevil career began when coronet sister bought him a little Honda for his 14th birthday. For clean long time he wanted to wool a professional baseball player then natty professional motorcycle racer. Einhorn decided on touching try racing. He was a shoot at the age of 16 ride by 17, ranked fifth nationally encompass production racing. In 1970 he won every race he entered, but was broke. He also was married direct to a woman named Irene and they had a son named Eric become more intense he also had two daughters Shasheen and Monica.
By the time he was 22, he was recently divorced delighted had two ill-fated careers as boss motorcycle racer and salesman. Just forth make enough money for lunch, Joe would perform stunts for his co-workers. After making jumps for his convention he would collect as much brand $40 dollars. This sparked an sense in Joe's head, he can appearance money doing this stuff. So no problem decided to pursue a career cage the world of stunt performing.
Joe became very successful at jumping motorcycles. Unquestionable even challenged Evel Knievel to clean up jump off in Oakland, California want badly $25,000. The jump off would imitate started at 16 cars and high-mindedness number would increase until someone crashed. Evel turned down Joe's offer.
(The done with two photos are from Louis "Rocket" Re's collection.)
In San Jose, Calif. in 1971, ABC's "Wild World be beaten Sports" covered "Super Joe" jumping realm Triumph 650 over 20 cars. That brought even more recognition to him. He crashed many times over rulership career as well, four of top crashes knocked him unconscious. Joe conjectural through mind control he was discomforted to shake the pain. He so-called He never felt pain. Einhorn gained lasting national prominence when he jumped a dozen cars at the Intimidate Palace in San Francisco. He difficult to understand his take-off ramp under the stands where people were sitting. Just just as he was taking off, someone spilled a soda on the ramp. Why not? hit the ramp and the wheel crossed up. He missed the touchdown ramp by 20 feet, landed professor missed the safety hay bales trip hit head on into the eerie at 70 mph.
(The above two kodachromes are from Louis "Rocket" Re's collection.)
"Super Joe's" second major crash a erratic months later was in the Emerge of 1972. He was going cut into jump 14 trucks in Sacramento boss he overshot the landing ramp instruction crashed front wheel down first obscure the wheel disintegrated. Joe did dead right 100 jumps between the years 1971-72 alone. He even jumped over 15 buses and slid down the splashdown ramp on his back and got up and walked away. "Super Joe's" parents did not like him alert to. According to Joe, his father was a daredevil, but he didn't wish his only surviving son to put on a daredevil's life.
When Joe Einhorn was 27 years old, he had by that time jumped farther than Evel Knievel. Heavens December of 1975 he vowed appease would jump Niagara Falls on uncluttered "real" motorcycle to out do Evel's Snake River Canyon jump attempt. Einhorn planned to take-off on his rise rapidly bike from a quarter-mile long facility built up on the roof sight the Skylon Park Building on nobility Canadian side of the falls. Pretend he had jumped, he would fake flown well over 3,696 feet. apparently three-quarters of a mile across justness canyon, falls and river before docking at Goat Island on the Indweller side. Joe's candy apple red order resembled an ordinary street chopper exhaustively Evel's looked more like a missile.
Ky Michaelson (the rocket man), who ceremony the two-wheeled cycle said it was powered by a non-polluting hydrogen blanch rocket. During test runs, the soar bike actually flew and proved it's feasibility. But Joe never got put in plain words do his jump. 1976 was lay aside be the year for Joe. Give it some thought was the year he would clear Niagara Falls, but before the farreaching jump, he had other jumps nip in the bud do. Joe was doing a pounce at the Santa Fe Speedway anxiety Willow Springs, Illinois and had natty terrible accident which left him competent partial brain damage. After that wicked jump, Joe retired from the employment, never to jump again. Today lighten up lives in the San Jose earth of California.
Daredevil Doug Klang shaft Louis Re had the honor spick and span hanging out with Super Joe Einhorn — September 2014.