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The Carolinas’ Full Throttle Magazine
Burnouts 4 Cancer Story by Tammy Bowman Photos by Alan Dockery his all started when Mark Bowman saw a post on Facebook about a 4 year-old little boy, Wyatt Spann, from Alabama who had brain cancer. With that being said, anyone who knows Mark knows he has the BIGGEST heart and he wanted to do something to help this family. Wyatt liked burnouts and soon it became a worldwide effort to do burnouts for Wyatt. To help cheer up a young boy and raise awareness for childhood cancers. Sadly, Wyatt passed away soon after the movement grew. His family has changed the fund raisers to Burnouts 4 Cancer. Mark, who has a history of organizing charity fund raisers, was recognized in 2019
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as one of the Bob Karney Carolinas’ Biker Lawyer’s Bulldog Heroes. He contacted Greg and Christy Spann, Wyatt’s parents for permission to do a ride. Quickly a charity ride was organized in two weeks for February 1, 2020. Wyatt passed away on January 16, but Mark said the ride was still on, instead of a charity ride it would be a memorial ride. Lazy Hogz in Hickory is where the ride started. There were 76 bikers that came out to show their support for this little boy. There was a banner there for all the registrants to sign in memory of Wyatt. From Lazy Hogz, the ride went to Zipper’s Restaurant in Lincolnton. We finished at The Wizard Saloon where wheelies and Burnouts For Wyatt were done by some of the bikers and some in cages. Kevin Smith was there and, as always, laid some rubber down. Wyatt loved burnouts!
