Scot Breithaupt, Founder of BMX, Found Dead in Tent in Vacant Lot in Indio

Well, doesn't sound like that nice of a place to check out.

I never met him, but Scot Breithaupt's name is immediately recognizable from my own BMX days in the 1970s.

I was riding both bikes and skateboards for awhile. Once the big SoCal skateparks came around, though, not too many of us were riding BMX.

In any case, at LAT, "Scot Breithaupt dies at 57; started global BMX craze in Long Beach."