Garrett Turns Expert

Today was the final race day of the opening weekend of Rad Canyon Indoor Season of 2012-13.  Our stats for today's races were as follows:  Paige 2nd, Kaden 3rd, Alexis 1st, Brandon DNQ, Garrett 1st and Cassie 3rd.  After this win today, Garrett became a new 14 Expert.  Congratulations Garrett on hitting such a milestone in only 9 months of racing.

TJ's BMX Memorial

Today was the second day of racing for Rad Indoor.  This past month the Utah BMX family has lost 3 fathers (TJ Zehl, Brad Kopelson, Wade Spratt), so today we did a small memorial for them.  They asked all riders to line the final straight on the track, with the 3 families standing in the middle of the last straight.  They then had all the riders get down on one knee and had a minute of silence.  It was a touching experience for everyone involved.

 Kaos Utah also had the opportunity to ride another flag lap today.  We have also been appointed the position of finding the music for the national anthem for the whole indoor season, because we were able to figure out how to make the sound system in the building hook up to a smart phone.

Stats for tonight are as follows ...Kaden 3rd, Paige 2nd, Xander 4th, Brandon 5th, Alexis 1st, Garret 1st, Jorden 3rd and Dan 4th ...
 We signed another rider tonight, welcome to the Kaos Nation Daniel Walters

Indoor Begins Again

 Last night was the first indoor race at Rad Canyon Indoor for the 2012/2013 season.

 Since our team won the team trophy on the last outdoor race, we had the priviledge of leading the flag lap last night.

 We would like to introduce our newest member of Kaos Utah : Cassie Franks (Pebbles)

Stats for Rad Canyon Bmx 1st indoor for Kaos Utah ...Kaden 2nd, Paige 2nd, Xander 3rd, Kodiak 4th, Brandon 3rd, Alexis 1st, Garrett 1st, Jorden 3rd, Cassie 6th and Jared 4th ....

Legacy Indoor

Tonights results for Kaos Utah Lexi DNQ, Kaden 8th, Paige 3rd, Brandon 3rd, Bubba 1st and Cassie 3rd

Redline Cup Finals 2012 in Fresno, CA

Boys road their hearts out all weekend! A few crashes, a few tough Motos. Bam Bam took 4th Friday, DNQ yesterday and 8th today. Bubba took 2nd Friday, 8th yesterday and 3rd today! Couldn't be prouder :)

Bubba wound up 5th over all in this past weekend's Redline Cup West Finals - even after a crash and last place finish in the Day 1 Main Event. Came home with a 2nd, 8th and 3rd for the weekend. I am so proud of him and all he's accomplished on the track in such a short time!

Zion BMX

In Memory of TJ

This past week, we lost one of our biggest fans.  TJ Zehl died in the early hours of September 29th.  TJ is Garrett Davidson's stepdad.  We will miss you TJ, keep a watch over our team.

 

 

Terry Wayne Zehl Jr. (“TJ”), age 38, passed away suddenly on Saturday, September 29, 2012. He was born on May 8, 1974 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. TJ grew up between New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida. Eight months ago he moved across country to Utah with his fiancé Robin and her son Garrett to be closer to his big sister Kristie. He loved drawing, poker, computer games, and watching his step-son, nieces and nephews play ball and race BMX. Above all else, TJ enjoyed being with family, often being heard saying “Family is Forever”.

He is survived by a large loving family – his daughter Dystany Rachelle Humphery, her wife Alicia and their daughter Jasmyn Bravo of Florida; his father Terry W. Zehl Sr. and step-mom Michele of New Jersey; his mother Michele Calavano Eagen and step-father Mike of Florida; his sister Kristie Zehl Walters, her husband Dan and their son Brandon, daughter Cassie Walters Franks and her husband Will of Utah; his sister Lisa Zehl Langlois, her husband Joey and their children Tyler, Conner, Hunter and Sara of New Jersey; his brother Michael Zehl, his wife Linda and their son Matthew of New York; his sisters Davene and Michele Duncan of Florida; his fiancé Robin Davidson and step-son Garrett of Utah; and many aunts, uncles and cousins.
Celebrations of TJ’s life will be held both in New Jersey and Utah. On Friday, October 5, 2012 a party will begin at 7pm at the Knights of Columbus, 3 Lasatta Avenue, Englishtown, NJ. On Thursday, October 11, 2012 a party will begin at 7pm his home, 2029 West 8350 South, West Jordan, UT.
In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Alpha 1 Foundation (alpha-1foundation.org), the National Ability Center (discovernac.org) or the American Heart Association, specifically to his niece Cassandra Franks who will be dancing at a fundraiser in his honor.

Bingham Homecoming Parade

 On Saturday morning the 29th of September, we took some time to particpate in the Bingham High School Homecoming Parade. A few weeks ago, I got a phone call from the Student Body President of Bingham high school to see if I could get enough riders to ride in their Homecoming parade.

With the death of TJ that morning about 2 am, we didn't have a huge turn out, but a few of our friends that aren't on our KAOS team joined us. The Martinez twins and Haden Mier also joined us. We also had a special guest show up, Santa took a few minutes to stop in and ride in the parade also before he gets too busy for Christmas.

Final Rad 2012 Outdoor Race

Stats for the final outdoor race of the 2012 season at Rad Canyon are as follows: Paige 2nd, Kaden 2nd, Alexis 2nd, Clay 1st, Kody 1st, Brandon 2nd, Xander 5th, Michael 3rd and Garrett 1st.  Kaos Utah also took home the team trophy for tonight also as well.   Congrats team you all did great.

Utah State Championships 2012

 Here are a few pictures from the day of the Utah State Championships.  I will update this post later with stats, as soon as I can locate them.

 Our team was a big help and support to the Rad Canyon crew trying to get things set up for the big event.  Thanks for being willing to help all of our Utah tracks and representing our team so well.

Sorry if you didn't make in this post, I just clicked on random pictures.  Hopefully I have majority of the team on here.

Legacy Rebuilt

Tonight, Brandon and Garrett represented KAOS Utah at the newly rebuilt Legacy BMX track.  Legacy had to tear down their track for a few weeks, so that the Davis County fair could use the property.  So tonight was the first race after the fair and the track was a little different for all the riders to experience.  Brandon and Garrett both brought home a 2nd place finish.

Racing in the Rain

 It has been raining on and off today.  We weren't sure if they were even going to having racing tonight, but since hardly anyone was there for the practice time, I took advantage and took some pictures of our boys out there playing around together on the track.  After a huge downpour, the weather did clear up and they only started racing an hour later than normal.  Because of the weather, we only had 20 motos total for racing.

Stats for tonight ... Kaden 4th, Paige 2nd, Xander 4th, Clay 2nd, Kodiak 2nd, Brandon 1st, Alexis 2nd, Jorden 3rd, Garrett 1st and Jared 3rd.... Racing awesomely in the rain

Deseret Peak State Qualifier

Last night was the Deseret Peak BMX State Qualifier ... Kaden 1st, Paige 2nd, Xander 4th, Kodiak 4th, Lexi didn't qualifiy for main, Brandon 3rd, Garrett 1st, Uriah 2nd, Jorden 3rd, Jared 2nd and Michael 3rd ... I hope I remembered all of those correctly ... Great job Team Kaos Utah BMX

End of Summer Party

 Last night we had our End of Summer party with the team.  Everyone but the DeHeer family was able to attend.  We had a pot luck dinner of pulled pork sandwiches, salads and desserts.  We then let everyone have a chance to practice gates.  As soon as it got dark enough, we set up the projector on the garage and watched the movie "RAD".  I am so proud to have a close knit team that enjoys the family atmosphere of racing BMX.

Rad Canyon

Last Night, KAOS Utah did awesome  - Bubba and Bam Bam both took 1st, Paige and Kaden took 2nd, Lexi took 3rd and Jared went home with a 4th after a crash in the main.

Zion BMX State Qualifier

This past Saturday was the State Qualifier at Zion BMX in Virgin, Utah.  We had four of our riders take the trip south to participate in this race.  Brandon took 4th, Alexis and Paige took 3rd and Kaden took 1st.

Thanks to Brandon's dad for taking some awesome pictures for us.