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The wheels came off: BMXer Scot Breithaupt's rise and fall
For Scot Breithaupt, it all came to an end in the same place where it all began — a vacant lot.
At age 13, he created a movement, holding organized BMX races in a vacant lot in Long Beach.
From that humble beginning, he helped usher a fledgling sport into the mainstream. A sport that is now part of the Olympics.
At age 57, he was found dead in a vacant lot in Indio on Saturday. The man dubbed the "Godfather of BMX" and a Hall of Famer in the sport spent his final day in the 106-degree heat under a makeshift tent constructed out of a mattress, a bed frame and some mismatched dirty sheets.
So what happened?
How did he go from filling up his trophy case to filling up his rap sheet; from leading a pack of BMX racers to leading the police on a two-hour-long chase from Riverside to Costa Mesa?
The people who knew him best reflected on Breithaupt's life, and all of them had different versions of the same story: Breithaupt wa