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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

BMX Course Hits KIRO

Posted by on July 18 at 14:20 PM

If this week’s Stranger article about a secret BMX course in Queen Anne piqued your interest, then tune in for the KIRO-7 5:00 news. The story’s hero, Rama Fire, and his professional BMX rider friends are trying to make the case for their course’s being spared death by City of Seattle bulldozers. To that end, they’ll be engaging in some bicycle acrobatics, including a jump over a KIRO reporter. Spoiler Alert: He survives.

Since the story’s publication, readers have walked through the dense foliage of MacLean Park to find the course themselves. They’ve been welcomed by Fire and the other riders. We’ve received letters from readers who want to support the BMX course. The best advice is to email Jack Tomkinson of Urban Sparks, who is quoted in the story. He’s putting together a list of supporters — he wants names and email addresses so that he can show them to the Seattle Parks and Recreation board. It might also help him to organize a future rally for the course’s support, if it comes to that.

Confidential to KIRO: We know that with the Sonics story breaking, there’s a temptation to bump the BMX piece to 6 or 11. If you do, please give us a heads up.