The passing away of motocross racer Tanner Krahenbuhl has shaken the neighborhood racing community. A horrible crash distorted a motor home over the weekend, and claimed the life of a young guy from Henderson who was a growing star on the motocross circuit. In several ways he was already at the top of his competition.
Tanner Krahenbuhl was on his way back to his residence to the Valley from a motocross occasion just north of Salt Lake City when a mechanical breakdown led to trouble. There were six other people with him, two of whom are in serious condition.
“He’s just talent. Ever since I met him he was such a nice kid and it’s hard to see a good one, something like that take place,” says Eric Hallgath of Champion Motorsports
Eric knew Tanner was an outstanding athlete of motocross the moment the kid walked into his store around a year back. But all of that broken Sunday, not on a breezy motocross path, but on a stormy mountain track in Utah. Tanner was killed when his recreational vehicle he was riding in rolled over three times the motor home was equipped with camping and traveling gear.
“To have somebody like this disappear because he is so young, you know, he was working so hard, it’s hard. It’s hard for everyone,” says Eric.
Eric will always remember Tanner Krahenbuhl as he was the only overconfident kid, he met in his life who earned respect in the motor cycle world in the age of only sixteen.
Tanner Krahenbuhl
Tanner Krahenbuhl
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