Rick Sieman, aka “Super Hunky” one of the most-read North American off-road motojournalists of the late 20th century has died.

Sieman had been retired for a while now, and had been living in the American southwest. In recent years, his health had been failing, and his daughter often helped him with Facebook posts and updates on his day-to-day life. She also frequently re-posted his articles from the past. These were mostly from his time with Dirt Bike, where Super Hunky became a household name, as long as your household had dirt bikes in the garage.

Sieman’s writing had a reputation for humor (especially his columns), but he wasn’t a wisecracking dilettante. He was 100 percent committed to dirt biking, particularly desert riding, and raced many, many events. He helped organize riders’ rights movements, preserving access to wilderness areas as shutdowns started to pick up momentum through the 1980s. When he wasn’t riding or writing, he was wrenching.

Ironically, Sieman came into the dirt bike world as a lateral move. Before his career started at Dirt Bike in 1971, he was selling ads for publisher Hi Torque’s chopper magazine, and despite his identification with the off-road scene, he’d worked in the world of custom bikes as well. He was a well-rounded and knowledgeable motorcyclist, and his burly physique (he’d also been a competitive bodybuilder) and distinctive mustache further cemented his position in a corner of off-road riders’ moto-consciousness.

Sieman worked for other moto mags after Dirt Bike, and even blazed into the Information Age with columns at Off-Road.com and DirtBikes.com. In recent months, his daughter Cindy had been selling her dad’s books through Facebook. Many of his popular stories had been collected in these editions, and they generally received very good feedback from readers who recalled the glory days of their youth, with Super Hunky guiding them through the dirt bike world.

At his time of passing, Rick Sieman was 83 years old. ADVrider wishes to express our sympathy to his friends and family; we know that a man with so many gifts and so much talent will be missed.