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12/11/2018 1:14pm
12/11/2018 1:14pm
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12/12/2018 10:38am
We lost Mike 9 years ago today. Seems like yesterday I was watching him jump the lagoon on MTV during spring break or when he jumped his parents house!.. Rest In Peace Cinq.. You are missed!!
The Shop
(1) That MASSIVE double/double that was built at Racetown 395 and (2) the dock he jumped over down in Mexico. I think it was an MTV spring break thing.
I looked real quick on YouTube but couldn’t find them.
It can happen to anyone. I love watching the skills that guys like him show jumping crazy stuff but it can go bad so easily, godspeed Mike. I had a life changing injury this year and I get chills now watching stuff that used to get me pumped up to ride. That insane double double could have easily just been another segment in a freestyle video but a slight miscalculation pretty much cost this poor guy his life. He went from on top of the world to his living hell in an instant.
a heartbreaking tragedy!
back in the day as a child I used to have heroes and Cinq was definitely one of them. Wrathchild, Chapter One, MotoXXX, the MTV stuff, Shift commercials and photos in catalogues… I soaked up everything! Always wanted to be like him, young, seemingly rich, endless skilled, big house in socal. starring at the poster of the jump over his house hanging on the wall of my nursery was an everyday thang.
Pit Row
He was also super nice to everyone. He always had that style everyone wanted to emulate on and off the track. He was our hometown hero, and watching chrome and crusty and seeing him in it was unreal. Still sad over his crash, and passing away.
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