R.I.P Colin. You will be missed.
I don't know if anyone who reads this rides bmx but even if you don't I do and that is why I am posting this. Colin Winkelman was a great rider. Though I didn't know him personaly it was always awsome to watch him ride in videos or on T.V he was always a funny guy to watch and he will be missed greatly.
This was taken from someones Live Journal who found it on a message board.
"ok... after a few phone calls i got the story of what happened to the best of everyones knowledge
apparently3 days ago colin and his girlfriend/fiance/whatever got into a huge fight... and she like left or somthing... so colin started talking about suicide(nobody took it serious), cause colin was always a happy guy... so after 3 days, nobody had heard from him, so alan cooke and his buddy gary nichols were wondering where colin had been... so gary goes over to colins house, and finds all the doors are locked.. he gets into the garage and colin was laying on the garage floor with like some blood coming out of his nose... the way it seems is that he died of carbon monoxide, he turned on his chopper and sat there in the garage until the fumes killed him.
thats the story ive heard from cielencki and will stroud... seriously sucks
as jimmy said it... there is 2 ways to handle this, sit and be sad, or go out and ride our bikes like colin would want... i mean its ok to be sad, its a great loss to anybody that knew him, and BMX in general... remember that colin lived for bmx, ever since he started it was his life... he did gaps bigger than people could see, did the craziest shit EVER and LOVED every second of it... so i say that the next time any of us gets on our bike we ride like colin would, and how colin would want us to.. for the simple joy that we get from riding around on a "little kids bike", love every second of it, and never forget why we started...
RIP colin "
This was taken from someones Live Journal who found it on a message board.
"ok... after a few phone calls i got the story of what happened to the best of everyones knowledge
apparently3 days ago colin and his girlfriend/fiance/whatever got into a huge fight... and she like left or somthing... so colin started talking about suicide(nobody took it serious), cause colin was always a happy guy... so after 3 days, nobody had heard from him, so alan cooke and his buddy gary nichols were wondering where colin had been... so gary goes over to colins house, and finds all the doors are locked.. he gets into the garage and colin was laying on the garage floor with like some blood coming out of his nose... the way it seems is that he died of carbon monoxide, he turned on his chopper and sat there in the garage until the fumes killed him.
thats the story ive heard from cielencki and will stroud... seriously sucks
as jimmy said it... there is 2 ways to handle this, sit and be sad, or go out and ride our bikes like colin would want... i mean its ok to be sad, its a great loss to anybody that knew him, and BMX in general... remember that colin lived for bmx, ever since he started it was his life... he did gaps bigger than people could see, did the craziest shit EVER and LOVED every second of it... so i say that the next time any of us gets on our bike we ride like colin would, and how colin would want us to.. for the simple joy that we get from riding around on a "little kids bike", love every second of it, and never forget why we started...
RIP colin "