Thank You!!

Thank you to everyone who came out this morning for the Bunny Bradley Memorial Ride.

And thank you especially to Rod from the American Fork Rotary Club and Meredith from One on One Communication for their incredible generosity and support! We appreciate immensely all that you did in such a short time frame to honor Bunny!

Tour de Donut/Bunny Bradley Memorial and other weekend info

Hey everyone, tomorrow morning (July 17th) the organizers of the Tour de Donut have graciously offered to host a memorial ride for Bunny at the Tour de Donut in American Fork. The Tour de Donut starts at 9:00, but a short, memorial lap for Bunny will depart at 8:45. This will be a family-paced, slow ride for all who want to remember and honor Bunny. Many of Bunny's family, nieces, and nephews will be riding, so bring the family. If you wish to race the Tour de Donut, you will then be able to do that after the memorial ride. Much thanks to Rod Martin and the Rotary Club of American Fork for being so generous and accomodating.

If you are going to just do the memorial ride, please arrive by around 8:00 and look for the Bunny Bradley Memorial Ride table to register.

A group who want to get in more miles will be meeting in Draper to ride to the Tour de Donut, and then riding back over suncrest afterwards. If you are interested, please check with Adam Crayk for details. acrayk@academylegal.com

For you mountain bikers, A good size group will be getting together tomorrow at 8 at Snow park lodge at deer valley resort (where the deer valley icup race started) to ride the second half of the p2p race. Most plan on riding 50+ miles but you are welcome to ride as much as you would like. These trails are in great condition, with some steep and rocky sections, and one section of new (rough) trail. Bring plenty of water and food and take a look at the course map (bring it along with you) before you come. There are a lot of trails so the map/description will be helpful. We should have riders at varying levels so there will be several groups riding together. Should be a great ride and early enough to avoid the heat and hopefully trail traffic will be light. Feel free to forward this to anyone else you think would be interested in riding.

Kits are also available for pick up at Revolution. We're still waiting for a few items (arm warmers, long sleeve jerseys, vests), but you don't need those now anyway. And if you ended up with an extra pair of headphones, please let us know as a few people didn't get theirs.

A Great Loss

Elizabeth "Bunny" Bradley participating in her first Triathalon two weeks ago.

As many of you have probably heard, yesterday morning just before 7:00 am Elizabeth "Bunny" Bradley was struck head on by a pick up truck while riding with the women's group ride on Highland Drive in Draper. A truck drifted across the yellow line into oncoming traffic, collided with another car, and then continued on to hit Bunny head on. Other riders were injured but Bunny took the brunt of it.

Bunny was immediately attended to at the scene by passers by with medical experience, and then the EMTs who arrived. Within 15-20 minutes Life Flight arrived and transported her to University Hospital where the surgeons in the ICU did all the could to alleviate the swelling in her brain caused by the head-on collision with the truck. Unfortunately the trauma was too great, and shortly after midnight Bunny passed away.

This is a great loss for many in the Skullcandy cycling community. Bunny is family to many of us, and to others she was a great friend and inspiration. Although Bunny was relatively new to cycling as a sport, she was a strong and determined athlete with an infectious smile and positive attitude. She will be greatly missed.

Our thanks and gratitude go out to all those who stopped to help Bunny after the initial collision, the EMTs and Life Flight staff who arrived at the scene and transported Bunny to the hospital, and the surgeons and nurses who attended to her at the hospital.

Our thoughts and condolences go out to all of Bunny's family and friends, as well as to the other women who were injured at the accident.

Bunny leaves behind her husband and 2 young daughters. The family is collecting memories and pictures that you may have of Bunny to put together for her daughters. If you have anything you would like to share you can email it to:

bunnymemories@gmail.com.

Donations are also being accepted at Zions Bank under the Bunny Bradley Donations.