Doug Danger Jumps XR750 Over 15 Cop Cars for Charity

By Sam Bendall - August 8, 2016

Doug Danger—his real name is Doug Senecal but that doesn’t sound as cool—jumped his Harley-Davidson XR-750 over 15 police cars in Topeka, Kansas for charity this past week.

Even at 54-years of age, Senecal says, “It never gets old, and it never stops being scary. The thing is, you’re flying a 350-pound steel machine through the air and these things have a mind of their own. Sometimes it goes well, and sometimes it doesn’t. I’m still nursing a wound from ’92, just for example.”

The jump was organized and orchestrated by the 17th annual Harley-Davidson Party and quickly sold out. The proceeds we to supporting the local Boys and Girls Club of Topeka.

Dressed in Evel Knievel garb, Senecal was also filming for the new Evel Knievel Museum at the Historic Harley-Davidson of Topeka dealership, 2047 S.W. Topeka, owned by Mike Patterson. The museum will open later this year after the property finishes its expansion.

“Intense physical training is critical, because if that bike gets out of alignment you have to be able to yank that thing back into place. And it’s a heavy bike. I don’t own a (Harley-Davidson) XR-750 of my own, but with this being the site of the museum, we have to use Evel Knievel’s bike.”

To make the jump even more physically taxing Senecal had to wear a helmet with three cameras attached. “My normal helmet weighs three pounds, and this thing weighs at least double that.”

Check out the video below for Doug Danger’s jump.