San Jose mountain bike innovator dies at Sea Otter Classic
posted April 22, 2008 by trek7k
Mark Reynolds, owner of Wicked Racin and inventor of the Dualrailleur Guide, died suddenly during a race at the Sea Otter Classic this weekend at the age of 48. From eyewitness reports it sounds as if Mark may have had a medical problem that hit while on the bike, causing him to crash near a bridge on the course.
I spoke with Mark at Interbike this past September where he gushed enthusiastically about the Dualrailleur Guide, his love for mountain biking readily apparent to anyone who spoke with him. Mark will certainly be missed in the mountain bike community and our hearts go out to his family at the time of this unexpected tragedy.
Mark Reynolds at Interbike (Courtesy of Kris Vantornhout, via The Mercury News)
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April 22nd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Update: According to an article in the SF Chronicle, Mark Reynolds died from the accident and not from any medical problem preceding the crash:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/22/BAFM1096ES.DTL
April 29th, 2008 at 8:25 am
[...] In the past week or so there have been several stories of mountain bikers being injured and even killed while riding off road. Just last week a mountain biker was rescued near Rome, GA after breaking his collar bone in a gnarly crash. The previous Saturday an American tourist died on a mountain biking tour of the “Highway of Death” in Bolivia as he plunged off the side of a 200-foot cliff. And of course we all heard about the tragic death of Mark Reynolds who died after a fall in the downhill event at the Sea Otter Classic less than 2 weeks ago. [...]