Hunks my hero. His writing is great.....the best, but his 'stick it up 'em attitude is what seperates him from the rest. In a business where even the most outspoken writers eventually toe the advertiser line and soft cock their approach to bike tests, Hunky always called a spade a spade. If it was a piece of shit...he told you it was. Only Geoff Eldridge could come near Hunky for calling it as he saw it but even GE softened in his latter years, the power of the advertisers eventually winning over. Hunky however, maintained the rage.
I have even more respect for Rick (if that's possible) after overhearing a conversation between Hunky and a 'good 'ol boy' mate of mine at CD5 that actually changed my friends life in an amazingly positive way. I won't go into too many details of the conversation, only to say that it involved prostate cancer and the depression that often follows such an invasive operation. My mate had been battling post prostate depression pretty hard until fellow prostate survivor Hunky got into his ear with some simple but effective words of support that quite possibly saved my friends life. Today my anonymous mate is a very different guy to the one he was, leading up to that chance meeting with Hunky at CD5.
Hunky's currently assisting me in some research for an upcoming article I'm doing
for VMX. How cool is that, having the great Rick Sieman as a research assistant?
