The wheels came off: BMXer Scot Breithaupt's rise and fall - The Desert Sun
For Scot Breithaupt, it all came to an end in the same place where it all began — a vacant lot. At age 13, he created a movement, holding organized BMX races in a vacant lot in Long Beach. The man dubbed the "Godfather of BMX" and a Hall of Famer in the sport spent his final day in the 106-degree heat under a makeshift tent constructed out of a mattress, a bed frame and some mismatched dirty sheets. from leading a pack of BMX racers to leading the police on a two-hour-long chase from Riverside to Costa Mesa. The people who knew him best reflected on Breithaupt's life, and all of them had different versions of the same story: Breithaupt was a visionary, a promotional genius who helped the sport he loved explode in popularity, but that same zest for... While the rest of his contemporaries grew up and grew out of those wild, hard-living teenage/early 20s days, Breithaupt never could. "Basically he did everything better and harder than everybody else," said Perry Kramer, who was a rider on Breithaupt's SE Racing team in the late 1970s and early 1980s. "That included racing bikes and promoting BMX, but it also included partying. If I was going to party with him, he was going to party harder. Everybody wanted to be his friend, tugging him in all directions and he didn't want to let anybody down. Source: www.desertsun.com
