Kiedrowski Banged Up In Mountain Biking Crash
Kit Palmer | November 26, 2002
Two-time World Off-Road Championship Series champ Mike Kiedrowski will be taking a forced vacation after breaking his shoulder in a mountain biking accident last week. Kiedrowski was biking with his friend Jose Gonzalez near his home in Acton, California, when he got pitched off the bike and landed hard on his shoulder. Kiedrowski underwent surgery on Friday, November 22, and will spend the next couple of month recuperating. Kiedrowski was planning to compete in this weekend’s A Day In The Dirt, but that’s not going to happen now.
“There was this jump,” Kiedrowski said. “I usually go around it, but I thought this time, ‘Why not? The racing season is over.’ Man, I just got pitched over the bars. The surgery actually hurt worse than the original break.”
Kiedrowski said the time of the crash couldn’t have been better, considering that the ’02 racing season is over and that he’s currently working on a mountain bike sponsorship deal with Giant Bicycles.
Kiedrowski said he should be ready to go for the opening round of the GNCC Series, which gets underway in March.
Kit Palmer | Off-Road Editor
Kit Palmer started his career at Cycle News in 1984 and he’s been testing dirt and streetbikes every since – plus covering any event that uses some form of a knobby tire. He’s also our resident motorcycle mileage man with a commute of 120 miles a day.
