Dan Krenicki

Matt takes a hit

Matt Robison took a hard crash on Saturday 6/7/08 when he cased the knuckle on the new long table towards the end of Livewire. He’s pretty scraped up and has a broken collar bone so he’ll be off the bike for a few weeks.

Matt the weekend before on Upper Mineshaft.

Don’t go any further if you’re squeamish!

Cierra Smith Update

Most of you know that Cierra broke her ankle in two places the night before she was supposed to leave for Sea Otter. Today Wil (Cierra’s dad) reports “She’s doing really well……..she’s out for about 10 more weeks but doing really, really well.”

Cierra and some of her bikes.
 

Ech piles it up

The video of Ech’s wreck on Geiger Grade 4 years ago makes it to YouTube …..

The Way Bobby Sees It

The introduction to the documentary about dh racer Bobby McMullen. Bobby is an inspiration to all of us!

Gary Fisher’s Long Strange Trip

Steve Delay of SWD Bikes

Friends,
 
At 2:11pm, February 25, 2008, Steve passed away. He was with his family and friends and it was peacful and gentle.  

Please hold your calls, but feel free to eMail me directly at davebowman@clearchannel.com  and I will be happy to put together a book of eMails for Jennifer and Steve’s parents.
 
Thank you on behalf of the family for your thought, prayers, eMails texts and the outpouring of love and thoughts.
 
Dave! Bowman 
 

The arrangements for Steve’s funeral have been completed.
 
The service will be Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 10:00am at the Lakewood Memorial Funeral Home in Hughson, CA.
 
In addition, there will be a viewing on Monday, March 3rd from 4pm to 8pm at the same location.
 
Thank you again. If you have any additional questions, you may contact me directly at: davebowman@clearchannel.com
 
Dave! Bowman

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We’ll miss you Steve!

Karl Rogne medical assistance fund

Lots of you guys know Karl but for those of you that don’t Karl is a pro downhiller who races for GoRide.com, a Truckee local and all around great guy!  Mike Town and Kevin have organized a fund to help Karl out with the incredible cost of an illness like this.

From Kidwoo on mtbr.com

Quick background. A group of us were riding late last november on a section of trail we all knew pretty well. Karl went pinning it into a section he’d ridden many times before but with the ground frozen and being a lot faster than normal got caught up over the front of his bike and faceplanted HARD. He broke his jaw, his right arm and tore up his face pretty badly. When doing some scans on his spine to check for any other damage, the radiologist noticed what turned out to be lymphoma around his heart. A few biopsies later, revealed early stage 2 non-hodgkins growth………just in time for the holiday season.

He’s been getting chemo at stanford once a month (two treatments now) which is essentially just an IV drip. He’s rocking the mandatory mr clean hairdo and his energy levels are in the toilet. He’s a great guy with one of the most positive attitudes on life I’ve ever met. You can hear the sincerity in his voice that there’s no doubt he’s going to beat this but with the medical insurance ’system’ in this country being what it is, the financial side of this will kill him before any disease will. Again……he HAS insurance. This isn’t the guy who doesn’t cover his ass when going out racing professionally. This is an idea that dhtahoe, and some others came up with to help the guy out.

A heartfelt thank you for any of you who feel you can help him cover what insurance won’t. He’s already got bills piling up that are pretty ridiculous.
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Anything any of you guys want to kick down can be sent via paypal to:

karlwithkancer@gmail.com

(He’s tired and he has no hair but apparently his sense of humor is still in tact judging from the PP address).

Peanut takes a hit

Peanut’s at Renown after surgery to the right side of his face. Check www.teamhacksaw.wordpress.com for updates.

Get better soon Peanut!!!!

Christian Wright rides for Commencal in ‘08

Another young rider picked up by a major team!  dhReno rider Clark Wright’s son Christian rides for the Commencal team again this year!

Christian Wright aboard his awesome Commencal dh bike. Great job Christian - keep up the good work!

Cierra Smith to ride for the new Santa Cruz Academy Team in 2008

Kirt Voreis offers Cierra Smith a spot on the new Syndicate Academy Allride Team!

Cameron Zink

Rider Cameron Zink the Adidas SlopeStyle Champion.

Hacksaw’s back in Reno!

Just in case ya didn’t know.

Check out www.teamhacksaw.com

Dave Bright in MBA

Turn to page 74 of your December issue of Mountain Bike Action and there is our very own Dave Bright rock’n the Super D at Sea Otter. He’s the 5th guy on the descent in the National Team kit.

Franek Trzcinski

Chip off the ol’ block. Franek is one of Arek’s twin boys! He’s only 2yrs, 8 months old and he can already manual better than me!  - Steve