BMX Legend, Dave Mirra, Dies

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BMX legend – and we don’t use the word lightly – Dave Mirra has died in what appears to be a suicide.

Dave mirra, bmx
Dave Mirra, flying in the early days

The news report from Greenville, Carolina, indicates that Mirra shot himself in his truck, parked outside a friend’s house. The world of sport has been rocked by it, with plaudits coming from Tony Hawk, Cedric Gracia, Carey Hart and the whole world of BMX. He was 41.

owkay clothing, dave mirra

The news report can be found here:
http://www.wcti12.com/news/greenville-police-famous-bmx-rider-dave-mirra-dies-of-apparent-suicide/37825742

We’d like to add that Mirra was an inspiration to us too, showing just how physics-defying a greqt BMXer can be. So let’s leave you with a couple of minutes of Mirra brilliance:


(Can’t see the video, click here)

RIP good sir.

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 22 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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