KATU covers AVC Keirin crash

Mike Rosenfeld

2008-07-20

That was a sweet catch on the wheel!. I have a feeling we will be seeing
that video again (and again, and again, and again, and again) on those
reality extreme video shows....start practicing your commentary now Nathan.

*Deep Voiced Announcer with a lead into the video*:
"it was another day at the track and the racers are coming into the final
lap......when something goes horribly wrong!!!!"

*daunting music plays*.

"Elite racer Nathan Frechen finds him self airborne after hitting the wheel
of a down racer....he crashes into the fence with immense force and slams
into the track with a sickening crunch"

*Video cuts out to torso/head shot of Nathan.*

"See I remember hitting the disc, thinking "oooohhhh &%$#", seeing the fence
coming up, and then coming to on the ground with a lot of people around me.
I wish I had known I snagged the tri-spoke on the way down, I would've kept
it. Possession is 9/10ths of the law and all.

Also, I have blue paint from the rail on the underside of my pedal...rail
grind, baby! That'll show all the fixed gear freestylers how we do it at
Alpenrose!"

*Video plays over and over again...slower with each pass...tight in focus on
Nathan hitting the fence and the track....plus a really cool slow-mo of the
wheel snag.*
**
*Clip ends with Announcer saying everyone was ok and went on to race another
day...this leads into video of police chase ending in a wreck in Kansas.*
**

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Nathan Frechen
wrote:

> See I remember hitting the disc, thinking "oooohhhh &%$#", seeing the fence
> coming up, and then coming to on the ground with a lot of people around me.
> I wish I had known I snagged the tri-spoke on the way down, I would've kept
> it. Possession is 9/10ths of the law and all.
>
> Also, I have blue paint from the rail on the underside of my pedal...rail
> grind, baby! That'll show all the fixed gear freestylers how we do it at
> Alpenrose!
>
> Thanks for all of the help yesterday from everyone who got me upright again
> and made sure I was in good shape. For a sprinter at least.
>
> -Nate
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Nathan Frechen

2008-07-20

See I remember hitting the disc, thinking "oooohhhh &%$#", seeing the fence coming up, and then coming to on the ground with a lot of people around me. I wish I had known I snagged the tri-spoke on the way down, I would've kept it. Possession is 9/10ths of the law and all.

Also, I have blue paint from the rail on the underside of my pedal...rail grind, baby! That'll show all the fixed gear freestylers how we do it at Alpenrose!

Thanks for all of the help yesterday from everyone who got me upright again and made sure I was in good shape. For a sprinter at least.

-Nate