Wednesday, March 4, 2009

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Through the magic of Facebook I was able to meet a very talented racer from Finland named Mauno Hermunen. He is 20 years old and was on the podium with Cassidy in Belgium at the Mettet Superbiker. Mauno also won the German Supermoto National Championship. He is currently training in Spain, just weeks after going through surgery to put tons of screws in his collarbone that he broke into 3 pieces while riding. After Spain he is off to Italy. He is one tough guy and I have had fun getting to know him. He could possibly race against Cassidy this year in the XGames, which would be awesome. He has a camera man with him in Spain filming his practices and has sent me some links to a couple videos. I told him he needs to start speaking in English so I can understand him. I also told him something else he should do but didn't ever expect he would. This was in my inbox this morning! You have to watch the whole thing.
Thanks Mauno! It made my day.
P.S. His nickname for me is MOM because I am "SO old."
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4 comments:

Robyn said...

Thats funny Ell! Your are meant to be famous somehow!

March 4, 2009 at 10:01 PM
coco said...

that is the most random thing ever.

March 4, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Anonymous said...

haha Thats awesome. I think that is the first motorcycle video ever made with any music other than heavy metal :) I loved his "HA you think i forgot you!" What a cool kid

March 5, 2009 at 8:39 AM
jerry said...

I hope Mauno wins the World Championship.

March 7, 2009 at 10:37 AM

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