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California Racing Designs

Clint Miller's own company — and it never built a frame

California Racing Designs is one people remember wrong. The name makes it sound like a frame shop. It wasn't. It was Clint Miller's own company, and everything it ever put its name on was gear and accessories. I've been in BMX 45 years — let me set the record straight on this one.

Clint Miller's brand

Clint raced for just about everybody over his career — JMC, Torker, CW and more — and he won a world title along the way. California Racing Designs was the company he built on his own name and reputation. Not a factory frame program. His own thing.

Never a frame company

Get this part straight, because it's the thing everybody flips around: California Racing Designs never made a frame. Not one. It was accessories and gear the whole way through.

How it grew

It started with T-shirts. From there it moved into seat posts, then brake guards — the small, useful parts that ended up on a lot of bikes. Then Clint took it somewhere nobody expected: he became the exclusive importer of Muscle Power, a protein powder out of Holland that the pro athletes were using at the time. A BMX accessories name bringing a European supplement into the States for the guys at the top of the sport — that tells you how plugged in Clint was, well past the hardware.

What we don't know yet

Here's what still needs pinning down:

  • The years California Racing Designs started and wound down.
  • The full parts list beyond the T-shirts, seat posts, and brake guards.
  • Dated ads or catalog pages, and Muscle Power import material with the name on it.

Got an old California Racing Designs ad, a brake guard, or a Muscle Power piece? Send it over and it goes right on this chapter.

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Sources

Bill Ryan, Legend Bike Co. — firsthand knowledge from 45 years in BMX: California Racing Designs was Clint Miller's own company, never a frame maker; its arc ran from T-shirts to seat posts to brake guards, and Clint became the exclusive importer of Muscle Power protein powder from Holland. Corrections and dated source material are welcome and will be added here.

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Last reviewed: July 2026. This chapter will be updated as additional source material becomes available.