Idaho schools will get $943,000 from a Texas stuntman, in return, the stuntman has purchased the right to jump the Snake River Canyon.
The bid made by “Big” Ed Beckley in a public auction last week is due to the state of Idaho Friday afternoon. He’ll wire the money to the state.
Beckley is a 63-year-old who’s been jumping motorcycles since the mid 1970s. At 285 lbs. he bills himself as the world’s largest motorcycle jumper.
After bidding started at $10,000, Beckley secured the rights to use state owned land as a landing spot for an attempted jump over the Snake River Canyon next September in Twin Falls County. Beckley wants to recreate a similar jump Evel Knievel attempted in 1974.
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