Scot breithaupt biography of alberta

  • The founding father of SE Racing and godfather of the sport of BMX racing, Scot Breithaupt has passed away.
  • Scot Alexander Breithaupt, who helped turn BMX bike racing from a backyard backwater into an international action sport, has died, authorities said.
  • An addiction to drugs — cocaine primarily — which started in his 20s and never really stopped, was Breithaupt's undoing.

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    BMX racing

    Type of bicycle racing

    BMX racing is a type of bicycle racing which features BMX riders sharing a short single-lap circuit or point-to-point course, with multiple banked corners, jumps and rollers. The format of BMX was derived from motocross racing,[1] and sanctioned internationally by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), facilitated bygd a number of continental, national and local sanctioning bodies.

    History

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    While informal bicycle racing existed to different extents, it was in Southern California that the sport of BMX started to become organized and resemble the modern sport. Original influencers included Ron Mackler, who was a park attendant in Santa Monica and set up races at Palms Park in West Los Angeles in 1969.[2][3] Mackler, a teenager with motocross experience helped organize local boys who wanted to race. The first race took

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    Ruth Abernethy

    Born in Lindsay, Ontario, Ruth Abernethy began a creative profession from high school. First working as Assistant Carpenter at the Kawartha Summer Theatre in Lindsay, she later attended Malaspina College in Nanaimo, B.C.

    Ruth turned 21 as the Head of Props at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre and created props in theatres across Canada for 20 years. She was Head of Props at Shaw Festival, built special items for the National Ballet of Canada, and spent 15 seasons with the Stratford Festival Theatre.

    In 1996, Ruth exhibited her first sculpture collection in Waterloo. Her first work in bronze was Raising the Tent (1997). This complex design, located on the grounds of the Stratford Festival Theatre, depicts the raising of the poles of the original performance tent.

    Over the last 22 years, Ruth has completed dozens of commissioned works, primarily in bronze and, occasionally, in stainless steel. These works are foun

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    RIP TO THE LEGEND "OM" Scot Breithaupt

    this is how I will rember him.
    Scot
    Breithaupt was a motocross racer for Yamaha who liked to ride his motorcycle on a rugged dirt track in Long Beach, Calif. One day in November 1970, he noticed he was being followed by teenagers pedaling Schwinn Sting-Rays.

    “Kids would come out and imitate me — they would follow my trail,” Mr. Breithaupt said in the documentary film “Joe Kid on a Sting-Ray” (2005).
    Mr. Breithaupt began organizing races on Saturdays, when he was not racing himself. He recalled that about 35 racers showed up for the first event; by the next weekend there were 150.

    Mr. Breithaupt organized bigger tournaments, including the Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup Series in 1974, which drew more than a thousand riders to each event, he said in an interview with BMXUltra.com. The finals were held in the Los Angeles Coliseum before a crowd of more than 5,000, according to bmxnews.com. Mr. Breithaupt, who also helped organize some of