How do you spell Danny Millwee's name?

Millwee — two Ls, not 'Milwee.' That spelling is confirmed by BMXmuseum's reference archive and by Auburn BMX's own company blog, both of which spell it the same way.

What team did Danny Millwee ride for?

Millwee raced first for Haro, as one of the first members of Haro's BMX racing team alongside Pete Loncarevich and Mike King. He later became one of Auburn Cycles' first two factory-sponsored riders, alongside Todd 'TC' Corbitt, in the late 1980s.

Was Danny Millwee really in the movie Rad?

Yes. He is credited as Stunts in Rad (1986) and returned decades later as an interview subject in A RAD Documentary (2025).

Danny Millwee — "The Missile," Auburn Cycles Factory Racer and Rad (1986) Stunt Rider

Danny Millwee

"The Missile" · Early Haro BMX race team member · Auburn Cycles factory racer · Late 1980s, Southern California · Credited Stunts, Rad (1986) · Interview subject, A RAD Documentary (2025)

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At a glance

Name: Danny Millwee. Spelled M-i-l-l-w-e-e, confirmed against BMXmuseum's reference archive and against Auburn BMX's own company blog, run by one of Auburn's founders. The variant "Milwee" does not appear in either source.

Nickname: "The Missile."

Teams: Haro, one of the first members of Haro's BMX racing team, alongside Pete Loncarevich and Mike King · Auburn Cycles (Auburn BMX), one of the brand's first two factory-sponsored riders.

Era: Late 1980s, based in Southern California.

Beyond racing: Credited as Stunts in the BMX cult film Rad (1986); returned as an interview subject in A RAD Documentary (2025).

Early days: Haro's BMX race team

Before Auburn, Millwee raced for Haro. He was one of the first members of Haro's BMX racing team, alongside Pete Loncarevich and Mike King (Bill Ryan, firsthand, 2026).

One of Auburn's first two factory flyers

Auburn Cycles started building race frames around 1987, out of Southern California. When the young brand put together its first factory ad campaign, two riders got top billing as the company's first factory flyers: Todd "TC" Corbitt and Danny Millwee. One of Auburn's own founders, writing on the company's history blog decades later about a December 1988 advertisement, put it plainly: "Shows first two factory flyers, Todd Corbitt and Danny Millwee, both I believe were living in SoCal at the time." That ad is the earliest documented point of Millwee's Auburn tenure.

Other riders who appear on Auburn's factory roster in the years around Millwee's run include Rod Beckering, Robbie "Robo" Morales, and Erick "Big E" Bartoldus — the fuller cast of a small, California-built brand fighting for attention in a crowded field.

The flame-painted "Missile"

Millwee's factory bike, a 1988 Auburn Cycles CR-20R, is documented in BMXmuseum's reference archive as having been hand-painted by Mountaingoat Mountain Bikes in Northern California — flames, front to back, because he was "The Missile." It is memorable enough that BMX collectors still build tributes to it: a builder using the handle GT_Junkie replicated the flame paint scheme for a calendar build-off on the BMXmuseum forums, saying the flame design was what pulled them into the project after flipping through old BMX magazines.

On screen: Rad and its documentary

Millwee's other credit sits outside the race results. He is listed as Stunts on the 1986 BMX cult film Rad, part of the crew of period BMX talent — a group that also included Eddie Fiola, Martin Aparijo, and Mike Miranda — brought in to handle the film's bike work. Almost forty years later, Millwee appears again in A RAD Documentary (2025), the feature-length retrospective on Rad's production and its lasting pull on BMX culture, released across more than 700 screens for "Rad Day" in March 2025.

Where the record runs thin

Danny Millwee's birth date, hometown, and any national-level BMX race results ledger are not documented in the sources checked for this page. Searches of oldschoolmags.com and bmxsociety.com turned up general Auburn Cycles and BMX Action archive material but no independent period race coverage naming Millwee specifically. He does not appear in the USA BMX National BMX Hall of Fame directory. Millwee's early membership on Haro's BMX racing team is documented here per Bill Ryan, firsthand, 2026. What's documented here — the Haro race team membership, the Auburn factory sponsorship, the flame-painted bike, and the Rad and A RAD Documentary credits — is what the record currently supports.

Where he fits

Danny Millwee raced in the era covered in The History of BMX, on a small California-built brand alongside the bigger factory programs of the day. His Rad-era castmates Eddie Fiola, Martin Aparijo, and Mike Miranda are also documented here. Separately, Auburn Cycles was co-owned by Bob Morales — after he sold Dyno to GT — and Todd Huffman; the two of them later sold Auburn to GT Bicycles. Morales went on to Morales Bikes, then KORE bike parts, then ASV motorcycle components; Huffman worked for GT before starting his own motorcycle-documentary production company (Bill Ryan, firsthand, 2026, correcting the commonly repeated claim that Auburn's founders went on to launch Hyper Bikes — they didn't). That's a note about Auburn's ownership, not about Millwee's own career, but worth knowing if you're tracing Auburn's family tree.

Sources

BMXmuseum.com Reference, "1988 Auburn Cycles CR-20R Danny Millwee" (bmxmuseum.com/reference/7410). Auburn BMX company blog, "December 1988 advertisement" post, written by one of Auburn's founders (auburnbmx.wordpress.com). BMXmuseum.com Forums, "Auburn Danny 'The Missile' Millwee tribute build" (calendar build-off thread). IMDb, Danny Millwee credits, including Rad (1986) and A RAD Documentary (2025). oldschoolmags.com and bmxsociety.com were checked for independent period race coverage of Millwee; neither returned results beyond general Auburn Cycles and BMX Action archive material at the time of research. Millwee's Haro BMX race team membership and the corrected Auburn Cycles ownership and sale-to-GT account are per Bill Ryan, firsthand, 2026.

Spelling note. The correct spelling is Danny Millwee. "Milwee" is not supported by any source found in this research.

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