Trail Rider Magazine

Knowing Super Hunky Knowing Super Hunky Story By Paul Clipper and Vic Krause Story By Paul Clipper and Vic Krause 8 Trail Rider www.TrailRider.com The recent passing of Rick "Super Hunky" Sieman took us all by surprise. Honestly, those of us who knew him well (and were on his weekly call list) were aware that his health was declining, but really, who of us would even think he was close to the grave? Rick was a powerhouse, in strength, energy, and will, and to think that all that force was suddenly halted was almost unbelievable. But he proved himself mortal a er all, and because we knew that he was the last person to linger over something as trivial and com- monplace as death--one me he told me that death was easy, anybody could do it; that living the good life was the best thing to spend energy on--I decided to call up our old friend Vic Krause and put together a celebra on of life, rather than some weepy lament, for the inimitable Super Hunky. Like humans the world over, Rick's life was complex. A sign painter, weightli er, a voracious reader from childhood, a Navy man, waiter, author, Journalist, creator and founder of Dirt Bike magazine, fierce ac vist for riders' desert access rights, father of two beau ful girls and a son, husband to three beau ful wives (American, Canadian and Mexican--not all at once). Regre ably, we only have me and space for the facet of Rick's life that indelibly imprinted itself on us all, off-road dirt biking. To start this tribute, it's probably best for me to paint a picture of how we all met. We're going to start with Krause, because he came along first--I was the late- comer. You might know Krause be er as Mister Know it All, a character imagined by Rick in the early days of Dirt Bike magazine. Rick wanted to have a technical, ques on and answer column in D.B., and needed a name to hang on it, and ul mately the job was handed to Krause. There is much debate over exactly how the name Mister Know it All was decided on, but it was pulled off of a list of possible column tles that the two had cooked up, and the list covered an en re page of a yellow legal pad. But first, here's how Vic and Rick got together. Vic: "I caught the offroad bug at an early age, in 1969, and became absolutely obsessed with the German Maicos. The first one I bought was a used pile of junk, and I went to school on it mechanically. Eventually, I got good enough working on it that I figured out how to make it run for twenty minutes three mes a day, and that was a miracle, but in the process, I became a real Maico aficionado. And I actually did finish a race on the bike occasionally. "So I became a dealer for Maico--you had to buy two bikes to become a dealer. Maybe three bikes. And I bought them from Maico East, Dane and Dennis Moore--the Moore brothers, I wonder what ever became of them? Now I'm a Maico dealer, and I wanted to go to a dealer show. Come to find out they were having a dealer intro in conjunc on with the Anaheim trade show that year. "So I go to Anaheim and walk into the Conven on Center show that first morning. I've got a Maico t-shirt on, and I'm walking down the aisle into the show, and coming in from the opposite direc on was Rick.

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