John Tomac

Personal information
Full name	John Tomac
Nickname	"Johnny T", "Farmer John" "Tomac Attack"
Born	(1967-11-03) November 3, 1967 (age 44) Owosso, Michigan, United States
Height	5'10" (1.78 m)
Weight	175 lb (79 kg)
Team information
Current team	Retired[1]
Discipline	BMX, MTB, Road
Role	Rider/Manufacturer
Professional team(s)
1985-1989 1990-1991 1989-1991 1991 1991-1997 1997 1998-2005	Mongoose Yeti Cycles (MTB) 7-11 Pro team (Road) Motorola (Road) Tioga/Raleigh Cycles (MTB) Giant Bicycles/Answer Manitou (MTB) Tomac Racing (MTB)
Managerial team(s)
1998 onwards	Tomac Racing (MTB)
Medal record Competitor for  United States Mountain Bike World Championships Gold 1991 Ciocco Cross Country Silver 1991 Ciocco Downhill Silver 1997 Château-d'Œx Downhill
Infobox last updated on August 16, 2007

John Tomac (born November 3, 1967, in Owosso, Michigan) is a retired professional cyclist who competed in multiple disciplines in road racing and mountain biking during a successful senior career that spanned twenty years. He is regarded as a mountain biking icon and was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1991. He is a true all-rounder, having won major national and international titles in four disciplines.

Early career[link]

John Tomac first participated in cycle racing at the age of seven. He began to enter BMX events in and around Michigan in 1975 and continued competing in this discipline into his teenage years. By then, he had achieved title winning success at State and Regional level. In 1984, at the age of sixteen, Tomac won the National Cruiser Class title with the factory Mongoose team. He turned professional in 1985 and spent his last year of BMX competition contesting events as a privateer.

Mountain biking[link]

In 1986, Tomac made two significant decisions: he relocated to Southern California, and left BMX competition in favour of mountain bike racing. He continued to ride for Mongoose. By the autumn of that year, he had won his first two major mountain bike events: the Ross Fat Tire Stage Race in Massachusetts and the Supercross Mountain Bike Exhibition race held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Mongoose marketed a Tomac Signature Edition model in 1987, which reflected his increasing profile within mountain biking culture. Tomac achieved a few more notable wins during that year, including a second win in the Fat Tire Stage Race and three National XC Series rounds.

In 1987, John Tomac appeared in one of the first instructional mountain biking videos ever produced, entitled "The Great Mountain Biking Video,"^[2] produced by New & Unique Videos of San Diego, California.

John Tomac Appears in "The Great Mountain Biking Video" 1987, Big Bear Lakes, California - Photo by Patty Mooney

Ned Overend, John Tomac and Tinker Juarez Compete in the Cindy Whitehead Desert Classic, Palm Springs, California, 1989 - Photo by Patty Mooney

1988 brought Tomac national title-winning success. By achieving the highest combined points total from the National Off-Road Bicycle Association's (NORBA) Cross-country, Downhill and Dual Slalom championships, Tomac won the overall title of NORBA World Champion. He was ranked in first place in the Cross-country and Dual Slalom disciplines. The "World" status was a misnomer, however, as the NORBA championships were held only in the United States. The first true World Championships for XC and DH, sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale, were held in Durango, Colorado, in 1990 where John placed 4th in the downhill. John is well remembered for riding road style drop bars on his Yeti mountainbike at this race which was a noticeable deviation from the other riders. This equipment decision was influenced by his recent experience riding for the 7-11 road cycling team in Europe where he was under contract.^[3] Tomac's results and rapid rise to prominence earned recognition from U.S. cycling magazine Velo News, which voted him the world's best all-round rider of 1988.^[4]

Tomac retained his overall NORBA title in 1989, and also won the NORBA DH Championship for the first time. In a season in which he competed at the highest level on both sides of the Atlantic, he added the German and European XC titles to his collection. In 1990, he joined Yeti Cycles' factory MTB team and the 7-11 road team, embarking on a busy program of events in Europe and the U.S. To facilitate his road racing career, Tomac based himself in Belgium, and regularly traveled between the two continents to compete in major road and mountain events. Although he failed to win any of the three individual NORBA series, he won the overall NORBA title for the third year in succession.

1991 saw a change of teams: from Yeti to Raleigh and from 7-11 to Motorola. A stronger mountain bike season culminated in UCI World Championship success in Ciocco, Italy, with Gold in XC and Silver in DH. In addition to that, Tomac won two events on his way to the UCI XC World Cup title, and added a second NORBA DH title to his 1989 win. The following year, he finished in fifth place at the DH World Championship held in Bromont, Canada, and had to settle for second place behind Switzerland's Thomas Frischknecht in the XC World Cup rankings (though there were two event wins again). An accident in which Tomac struck an errant spectator in the final event at Mount Snow, Vermont, prevented him from outscoring his rival and retaining the title.

In 1993, Tomac was the runner-up to Germany's Jürgen Beneke in the inaugural UCI Downhill World Cup and lost out to Frischknecht again in the XC rankings.^[5] This was to be the last season in which Tomac would finish in the top three in the World Cup, but he continued to achieve notable results in the World Championships. In 1997, five years after his last World Championship medal, he finished second in the downhill event at Château-d'Oex in Switzerland.

Between 1994 and 1997, Tomac would win three more NORBA titles – two in DH and one in XC – as well as some notable individual events such as the Sea Otter Classic and Cactus Cup. He officially announced his retirement from racing at the Sea Otter Classic in 2000, but would later make an occasional return to competition. In 2004, at the age of 37, he won the famous Kamikaze Downhill held at Mammoth Mountain, California.^[6] Then, for good measure, he returned in 2005 and won it again.^[7]

Road racing[link]

From 1988 to 1991, Tomac dovetailed professional programs in both mountain biking and road racing. He was the 1988 USCF National Criterium Champion and was part of the winning team in the USCF National Team Time Trial Championship in 1989. Tomac spent much of 1990 competing in European events with the Motorola team. Although he failed to win any major road titles in a season in which he entered more than 100 road and mountain events, his schedule included the Ronde van Vlaanderen, the Giro d'Italia and the Paris–Roubaix. Tomac ended his participation in pro-level road racing at the close of the 1991 season, choosing instead to focus on his mountain biking career.

Team ownership[link]

2008 Tomac DH bike. Doug Bradbury sitting in the upper left corner.

In January 1998, John Tomac entered into a business partnership with Manitou founder and suspension engineer Doug Bradbury, whom Tomac had known since the 1980s. Together, they founded Tomac Bicycles, and launched a range of three full suspension bikes later that year.^[8] Tomac spent the 1998 season competing on his new prototype design in DH events.

The brand name was later acquired by American Bicycle Group, which in turn sold it to Joel Smith, formerly a brand manager at Answer Products, in June 2006. He relocated the company to Nebraska and set in place plans to relaunch the Tomac brand with a new model range in 2007.^[9] Tomac and Bradbury remain actively involved in the company and the design of its products.^[10]

Family[link]

John Tomac has a son, Eli who is an up and coming pro motocross rider in the US 250 lites class riding for the Geico Powersports Honda factory racing team. Eli is noted for being the first true rookie pro ever to win a pro motocross debut at Hangtown raceway on 5/23/10 under John's guidance.^[11]

Primary sources[link]

• John Tomac's History tomac.com
• MTB Hall of Fame mtnbikehalloffame.com

Notes and references[link]

Juliana ("Juli") Furtado (born April 4, 1967 in New York City) is an American mountain biker, who began her sports career in skiing. From 1980 to 1987, she was the youngest member of the U.S. National ski team. After undergoing several knee operations, Furtado retired from skiing and switched to mountain biking.^[1]

In 1989, Furtado won the US National Road Championship and in 1990 she won the cross-country event in (along with Ned Overend) the first official Mountain Bike World Championship, held in Durango, Colorado. In 1992 she won the downhill world championship. In 1996, Furtado won both the World Cup (her 3rd WC championship) and the NORBA (U.S. National race authority) cross-country championships. She also participated in the Atlanta Olympics.

Furtado retired from competitive mountain biking in 1997 after being diagnosed with lupus, though her disease is under control and she still rides solo. She became the mother of a son in 2008, and is currently the director of grass-roots sponsorship and marketing for Santa Cruz Bicycles, in Santa Cruz, California.^[1] One of Santa Cruz Bikes' products, the "Juliana" cross-country aluminum MTB, is named for her[1].

Furtado was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1993 and the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2005. Although American by birth, Furtado is of partial Portuguese ancestry.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Juli Furtado profile at Cycling Archives

Tinker Juarez

Personal information
Full name	David Juarez
Nickname	"Tinker", "Hollifield Flash"
Born	(1961-03-04) March 4, 1961 (age 51) Downey, California, United States
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	63.5 kg (140 lb; 10.00 st)
Team information
Current team	Cannondale Factory Racing Team
Discipline	Bicycle Motocross (BMX) Mountain bike racing (MTB)
Role	Racer
Rider type	BMX: Off Road MTB: Cross-country
Amateur team(s)
1974 1974-1975 1975-1976 1976 1976-77	Two Wheeler's Bicycle Motocros News Kawasaki Motors National Bicycle Association Mongoose
Professional team(s)
1977-1982 1982 1983-1985 1985 1985 1989-1989 1990-1993 1994-2002 2003 2004-2005 2006-Present	Mongoose JMC Racing Bandito Racing ODI Maximum General Bicycles Klein Bicycles Volvo/Cannondale Siemens/Cannondale Mona Vie Mona Vie/Cannondale
Major wins
1995 Pan Am Games Gold Medalist 2001,'02,'03,'04 24-hour endurance category National Champion
Medal record Competitor for  United States Mountain bike racing World Championships Silver 1994 Vail Cross-country
Infobox last updated on October 21, 2008

David Juarez (born March 4, 1961 in Downey, California U.S.) is a former professional "Old School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer and current top mountain bike racer whose prime competitive years in BMX were from 1978 to 1984 and in mountain bike racing 1986 to the present. Since 1986, he has been a mountain bike racer and since late 2005, competing as an ultra-distance road bike racer. In all three disciplines, he has won numerous national and international competitions. Most recently, "Tinker" finished third in the 2006 Race Across America Enduro bicycle road race.

"Tinker" Juarez is a highly talented cyclist who has made significant impacts in the cycling disciplines of BMX Racing, Freestyle BMX, and Mountain Biking and now long distance road racing for over thirty years. While he was also known as the "Hollified Flash" after one of his home BMX tracks he used to race at and dominate in the early-1970s,^[1] the moniker "Tinker" is a nickname that was coined by his family. According to his Mother Rose: "We used to say 'Stinker' when he was a baby, everybody thought we were saying 'Tinker"^[2] David Juarez is so well known by his nickname "Tinker" many people probably think that is his real first name.

BMX racing career milestones[link]

Note: In the early days of professional racing, 1977 and prior, many tracks offered small purse prize money to the older racers of an event, even before the official sanctioning bodies offered prize money in formal divisions themselves. Hence some early "professionals" like Stu Thomsen turning "pro" in 1975 at 16 years old where racing for small amounts of money at track events^[3] when offered even before the NBA, regarded as the first true national BMX sanctioning body, had a professional division. For the sake of consistency and standardization noted professional first are for the first pro races for prize money offered by official BMX sanctioning bodies and not independent track events. Professional first are also on the national level unless otherwise indicated.

Career factory and major bicycle shop sponsors[link]

Note: This listing only denotes the racer's primary sponsors. At any given time a racer could have numerous ever changing co-sponsors. Primary sponsorships can be verified by BMX and MTB press coverage and sponsor's advertisements at the time in question. When possible exact dates are used.

Amateur[link]

• Two Wheeler's BMX: 1974
• Bicycle Motocross News Team (Test Rider/Racer): Late 1974-November 1975
• Kawasaki Motors: November 1975-Early 1976
• National Bicycle Association: Early 1976-Mid 1976
• Mongoose (BMX Products): Mid 1976-February 14, 1982. Tinker would turn professional with this sponsor.

Professional[link]

• Mongoose: 1976-February 14, 1982. He was sponsorless for approximately three months after his separation from Mongoose.

• JMC (Jim Melton Cyclery) Racing Equipment: Mid May 1982-December 1982.

• Bandito Racing: January 1983-Early February 1985

• ODI (Ornate Design, Inc.): April 13, 1985-April 14, 1985.^[6] Seemed to have been a one weekend sponsorship since "ODI" does not appear next to Juarez's name in the BMX Plus! race results after this weekend. This company first started out making Christmas ornaments but switched to making bicycle grips and later grips for power tools as well as BMX and skateboarding accessories.^[7]
• Maximum: Early July 1985-

Career bicycle motocross titles[link]

Note: Listed are District, State/Provincial/Department, Regional, National, and International titles in italics. "Defunct" refers to the fact of that sanctioning body in question no longer existing at the start of the racer's career or at that stage of his/her career. Depending on point totals of individual racers, winners of Grand Nationals do not necessarily win National titles. Series and one off Championships are also listed in block.

Amateur[link]

National Bicycle Association (NBA)

• 1975 14 & Over Novice Western States Champion
• 1975 14 & Over Intermediate Grandnational Champion #2 (Jeff Bottema was the winner of the first Main^[8]). This was the first ever BMX Grandnational Championship.
• 1976 15 Expert Winternational Champion
• 1976 14-15 Expert Western States Champion
• 1976 15 Expert California State Champion

National Bicycle League (NBL)

• None

American Bicycle Association (ABA)

• None

United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)

• None

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)

Professional[link]

National Bicycle Association (NBA)

• None

National Bicycle League (NBL)

• None

American Bicycle Association (ABA)

• 1982 Pro Cruiser 2nd Place Jag World Champion (ABA sanctioned)

United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)

• None

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)

• None

Independent Events and Series

• 1983 "A" Pro Second Place and Pro Cruiser Third Place Jag BMX World Super Bowl Championship Champion

Freestyle BMX[link]

In April 1980, Tinker was named the first King of the Skateparks by Bicycle Motocross Action magazine.^[9] He even graced the April 1980 cover of the magazine, making it one of the first pure freestyle magazine covers by a BMX magazine. Although no contest was ever held, it was a general declaration for his highly advanced maneuvers that no one were matching at the time.

Career BMX accolades[link]

• He was Bicycle Motocross Action's very first star interview in their first issue (December 1976/January 1977).^[1]
• He was one of the founding members of the Professional Racing Organization (PRO), the first attempt at a BMX racer's guild in 1977.^[10]
• He is a 1993 inductee into the ABA BMX Hall of Fame.

Significant BMX related injuries[link]

Tinker, despite eventually becoming a top pro BMXer in racing and gaining "high airs" in both dirt jumping and vertical freestyle, went ten years without breaking a bone. It is very common for BMXers, especially in the pro ranks to become occasionally seriously injured because they are pushing themselves to as far as their talents can take them and beyond at high speeds, or in the case of vertical freestyle and dirt jumping to high altitudes and distances.

Miscellaneous and Trivia[link]

Tinker also participated in what was call Formula One (F-1) bicycle racing. F-1 racing was a short lived fad from 1987–1989 that involved bicycles with 20" wheels that looked like a cross between BMX, Road Race Touring and Mountain bicycles. Other famous BMX stars both retired and active at the time participated, including Harry Leary, Pete Loncarevich, David Clinton, Stu Thomsen, Eddy and Mike King. The two major BMX sanctioning bodies ABA and NBL, sanctioned the events. Tinker won the first ABA sponsored F-1 series race in Phoenix, Arizona in early 1988. In the following NBL sanctioned Grand Prix series he got a sixth in Memphis, Tennessee (the very first NBL F-1 race) and a second in Orlando, Florida.

BMX and general press magazine interviews and articles[link]

• "Almost a Legend in his own Time. Tinker Juarez: The Hollified Flash" Bicycle Motocross Action December 1976/January 1977 Vol.1 No.1 pg.27
• "The King of the Skateparks Tinker Juarez" Bicycle Motocross Action April 1980 Vol.5 No.4 pg.25. Pictorial of Tinker performing Vertical Freestyle at Lakewood Skatepark in Lakewood, California.
• "Interview: Tinker Juarez" BMX Action January 1983 Vol.8 No.1 pg.26

BMX magazine covers[link]

Bicycle Motocross News:

• May 1976 Vol.3 No.5 with Perry Kramer and an unidentified racer.

Minicycle/BMX Action & Super BMX:

• December 1978 Vol.5 No.12 (M/BMXA)

Bicycle Motocross Action & Go:

• April 1980 Vol.5 No.4
• May 1982 Vol.7 No.5 in last place behind Scott Clark, Harry Leary, Clint Miller Denny Davidow and Gregg Grubbs.

BMX Plus!:

• None

BMX Weekly & BMX B-Weekly: (British publication)

• January 14, 1983 Vol.3 Iss.2

Total BMX:

Bicycles and Dirt (ABA Publication):

• October 1983 Vol.2 No.1 ahead of Ronnie Anderson and Rob Medrano.

NBA World & NBmxA World (The official NBA/NBmxA membership publication under two names):

Bicycles Today & BMX Today (The official NBL membership publication under two names):

ABA Action, American BMXer, BMXer (The official ABA membership publication under three names):

• October 1983 Vol.6 No.10 (54) in third place on the outside behind Robert Fehd (472) and behind second place Shawn Texas (114) on the inside. Brian Patterson is in fourth directly behind Fehd.

USBA Racer (The official USBA membership publication):

Mountain Bike (MTB) racing career[link]

In 1986, Tinker made the switch from BMX to mountain biking. Since that time, Tinker has become a 3-time National Off-Road Bicycle Association (NORBA) cross-country (XC) champion and 4-time national champion in the 24-hour solo category. In 1996, he became one of the first to see the introduction of mountain biking as an Olympic sport and represent the United States. Tinker again represented the United States at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Started Racing: 1986 at 25 years of age.

Sub discipline: Cross Country (XC), Endurance

First race result:

Sanctioning Body:

Turned Professional: 1989

Ned Overend, John Tomac and Tinker Juarez Compete in the Cindy Whitehead Desert Classic, Palm Springs, California, 1989 - Photo by Patty Mooney

Retired:

Factory and corporate sponsors[link]

Amateur[link]

• General Bicycles (General Bicycle & Moped Company): March 1988–1989 Juarez would turn pro with this sponsor.

Professional[link]

• General Bicycles: March 1988-1989
• Klein Bicycles: 1990-1993
• Volvo/Cannondale Bicycle Corporation: 1994-December 2002
• Siemens Mobile/Cannondale: January 28, 2003^[11]-December 2003
• Mona Vie: January 2004-December 2005
• Mona Vie/Cannondale: January 2006–Present

MTB major career achievements[link]

Amateur[link]

Professional[link]

National Off-Road Bicycle Association (NORBA)

• 1994, 1995, 1998  United States NORBA Cross-Country Champion
• 2001 National Champion
• 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004  United States National Champion, 24-Hour Solo Category
• 1995 1st (Gold Medal) – Pan American Games
• 1998 1st – National Cycling Association Cross-Country Finals

Career MTB accolades[link]

• Tinker Juarez appeared in the first instructional mountain biking videos ever produced: "The Great Mountain Biking Video" released in 1988, and "Ultimate Mountain Biking: Advanced Techniques & Winning Strategies" released in 1989 by New & Unique Videos of San Diego, California.
  

  

  Tinker Juarez Appears in "The Great Mountain Biking Video" Released 1988 - Photo by Patty Mooney

• Juarez was selected as a member of the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics.
• He was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 2001.
• Cannondale awarded Tinker its 'Icon Award' in 2005 for his contribution to the sport.

MTB magazine covers[link]

Mountain Bike Action:

Ultra-Endurance racing career[link]

In 2005, Tinker began training for long-distance road racing events. He won the Heart of the South, which is a 500-mile (800 km) race, and finished second place at the 2005 edition of the Furnace Creek 508, a grueling 508-mile (818 km) course that covers 35,000 feet (11,000 m) of cumulative elevation gain and passes through Death Valley. His podium finishes qualified Tinker for the 2006 Race Across America (RAAM), the annual transcontinental bicycle race from the west coast to the east coast of the United States. He came in third in the Men's Solo Enduro division of the RAAM endurance road race on June 22, 2006, completing the three thousand mile race which started in 2006 from Oceanside, California and finishing in Atlantic City, New Jersey. His finishing time was 10 days, 22 hours and 21 minutes.^[12]

Started Racing: 2005 at 44 years of age.

First race result:

Sanctioning Body:

Retired: Still Active.

Factory and corporate sponsors[link]

Professional teams

• Siemens Mobile/Cannondale: January 28, 2003^[11]-December 2005
• Cannondale: January 2006–Present

Ultra-Endurance road biking career achievements[link]

• 3rd – Race Across America, Men's Solo - Enduro Category
• 1st – Heart of the South (500 miles)
• 2nd – Furnace Creak 508 (508 miles)
• 1st (Gold Medal) – Pan American Games (1995)

Career MTB and Ultra-Endurance cycling achievements by year[link]

1st place in Master world Championship, Camboriu, Brazil

Medal record
Ned Overend signs an autograph at a Specialized demo event, October 2006 Ned Overend signs an autograph at a Specialized demo event, October 2006
Competitor for  United States
Mountain Bike
World Championships
Gold	1990 Durango	Cross Country
Bronze	1991 Ciocco	Cross Country

Edmund ("Ned") Overend (born 20 August 1955 in Taipei, Taiwan), the son of a U.S. diplomat, started in mountain biking in the early 1980s. He appeared in "the world's first mountain biking video, aptly named, The Great Mountain Biking Video,"^[1], ^[2] released in 1988 by New & Unique Videos of San Diego, California. Ned also appears in competition sequences of "The Sun Valley Mountain Bike Challenge," a video chronicle of that year's NORBA Championships also released in 1988.

Ned Overend Appears in "The Great Mountain Biking Video," Big Bear Lakes, California, 1988 - Photo by Patty Mooney

Ned Overend, John Tomac and Tinker Juarez Compete in the Cindy Whitehead Desert Classic, Palm Springs, California, 1989 - Photo by Patty Mooney

He also appeared in a mountain-bike race video entitled "Battle At Durango: The First-Ever World Mountain Biking Championships" videotaped in Durango, Colorado in 1990, and released by New & Unique Videos in 1991. Overend was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1990 and the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2001. Even though he retired from Pro Mountain biking in 1996, he continued competing in endurance competitions like the XTERRA Triathlon, and regular road triathlons. While in professional mountain biking, Overend earned the nicknames "Deadly Nedly" and "The Lung", because he was very difficult to beat and for his phenonomenal aerobic endurance at altitude (especially so for a man of his age), respectively. He is the current captain of the Specialized Cross Country Team.

Major achievements[link]

Incomplete list

• UCI World Mountain Biking Champion (Gold, 1990; Bronze 1991)
• NORBA National Mountain Biking Champion (1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992)
• NORBA National Point Series Champion (1987)
• XTERRA World Champion (1998, 1999, 2nd 1997)
•  United States National Winter Triathlon Champion (2000)
•  United States National XTRERRA Series Champion (2001, 2002)
• UCI Masters Cyclocross World Champion [Men 55-59] (2012)
• Colorado Road Champion (2004)
• Road Apple Rally Champion (2004, 2009)
• Bob Cook Memorial Mount Evans Hill Climb (1st, 1985–1986; 2nd, 2006; 4th, 2005; 5th, 2008; 2nd, 2010)
• Mount Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb (1st 2011; 2nd, 2006, 2009)
• Teva Mountain Games Hillclimb (1st, 2007)

References[link]

• Biography
• Bikeradar.com interview with Gary Boulanger

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Greg Herbold at Interbike 2007

Medal record
Competitor for  United States
Mountain Bike
World Championships
Gold	1990 Durango	Downhill

Greg "H-Ball" Herbold is an american mountain bike racer. He was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1996.

Greg Herbold won the first dual slalom race at Mammoth Mountain in 1987. A year later, "Over the 1989 Labor Day weekend, September 2–4, around 1,500 mountain bike aficionados united under a blazing sun at Big Bear Lakes, CA, home of the NORBA National Championships... By Monday, the morning of the downhill race, many of the riders had gone, leaving the steep, technical 1,200-foot descent to the daredevils. Greg "Hair-ball" Herbold careened down the chute of deep ruts and shifting dust with hidden rocks to finish first with a time of 2:28... Herbold, on that fine line between finesse and out-of-control, also won the dual slalom event."^[1]

Herbold won the first UCI DH -DownHill- World Downhill Championship in Durango, Colorado in 1990. He won the NORBA National Downhill Championship in 1988, 1989, and 1993, and the North American Downhill Championship in 1991.

He appears in the videotape "Battle At Durango: First-Ever World Mountain Bike Championships" produced by New & Unique Videos of San Diego and released in 1991.

"Battle At Durango: First-Ever World Mountain Bike Championships" VHS Box Cover

After retirement from racing, Herbold worked in the cycling industry, at RockShox and later SRAM.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Herbold's page on the MTB Hall of Fame

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