Rick Lawton
Pleasanton, CA
Cat 4 Road

• Aliases: Rodent, Ricky Roads
• Year of Birth: 1965
• Marital Status: Once so far
• Known Children: Drew, 9
• Occupation: Engineer
• Race Disciplines: Road, Crit, occasional TT
• Race Highlights: Crashed into the field head-over-heals on the first decent at ’08 Wente RR, got back on and time trialed the rest alone to finish 29th.
• Riding Machines: Trek road & Jamis Mtn.
• Favorite Race: Tough choice; Giro di SF
• Favorite Training Rides: Diablo
• Favorite Beverage: Non fat milk
• Favorite Pre-Race Meal: Raisin bran, yes with non-fat milk!
• Favorite Flick: Star Wars
• Favorite Book: Major
• Five-tunes Playlist (artist/song): I Confess/English Beat, Hammering In My Head/Garbage, Crackerman/Stone Temple Pilots, Runnin’ Down a Dream/Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Dancin’ With Myself/Billy Idol
• Hero/Heroes: Lance
• Talents, Hobbies, Tidbits: Trumpet player, fair carpenter
• If you could ask a dead person one question, who would the person be and what would be the question? Marco Pantani: Dude, Why?
• Mary Ann or Ginger?: Ginger – I have a fatal attraction to high maintenance women; help me
• If you were a character in a movie, who would you be? Ferris Bueller
• What, if anything, do you have left in life to accomplish? Hopefully a lot of racing since I just got started last year!
• If you were a fruit, what would you be and why? I’d be a papaya because I’d be in Hawaii