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From e-mails:


When I started riding, and even more so when I started racing, I caught much grief from some friends and family. It’s too dangerous, that’s insane, you’re crazy, they all said. I’ve been riding for 6 years now, racing for 3 and have been very lucky, a few falls. A couple of months ago, four of my friends were killed in a single head-on drunk driving accident. They were all sober, driving back from a movie when a stoned and drunk woman crossed into their lane. They lived fairly careful lives. They were a couple of the people who told me I was crazy. Maybe I am.

The day I learned about the accident I was at the track endurance racing. I couldn’t think of anything else to do, so I raced. I went faster and rode better than I think I ever have. I dedicated many of those laps to my friends. I think I know I’m crazy now.

I agree with your article. A book’s title, written by Ernest K. Gann, called “Fate is the Hunter” seems to sum it up better than anything else.

Do what you love to do, for tomorrow you may not be here to enjoy it.

Jess Johnson
CMRA #21





Thank you for writing the editorial about Randy Renfrow. It is especially timely and poignant given his serious injuries. It just goes to show that life is indeed precious and can be taken away in a moment’s notice.

We should all live our lives as if today might be our last day on this earth. Because one day that is the way it will be.

Stan Simmerson, RN
Duke University Medical Center



Thank you for your short on Randy. I’m a friend of both Randy and (his brother) Shawn. As a racer myself, Randy’s advice was like gold. The word tough can not even began to define Randy.

Yet very few know the struggles he has been through. I’m going to see Shawn this afternoon at the hospital to lend what support I can. Live today, we know not what tomorrow brings. Thank you again!

Donnie Unger



Bravo, I’m moving Monday of next week and need to pack. Yet there is a race this weekend in Donner and I’m in the points chase (SuperTT); I was on the fence as to race or not. It was almost as if you wrote that for me, thank you, I’m going racing. I’m very confident that we will see Mr. Renfrow and his brother at the races soon. My thoughts are with the Renfrow family.

Mike Foster