Glenn Pavlosky

GT Robinson Racer and Original Supercross BMX TECH Team Rider, 1989

A Legend Bike Co. rider page · primary source: Bill Ryan

At a glance

Scene Southern California, 1980s
Teams GT Bicycles' Robinson division · TECH Racing Team
Known for One of the five original Supercross BMX TECH Racing Team riders Bill Ryan founded the brand to sponsor in 1989

Glenn Pavlosky shows up twice in Bill Ryan's BMX career, a decade apart, on two different rosters. First as a racer Bill managed at GT Bicycles. Later as a rider Bill sponsored out of his own pocket, on a team that needed a frame badly enough that Bill built a whole company to get them one. Not many riders get that kind of throughline in one person's story. Pavlosky does.

Riding for GT's Robinson Division

GT Bicycles bought Chuck Robinson's frame business in 1987 and folded it in as the Robinson division, a lower-priced line built to get more riders on GT-family bikes. Bill Ryan ran that division as team manager — a job that came after his stretch at SE Racing and his early days at GT doing customer service and sales. "My part was loading product into Eddie's camo lifted Toyota, and later running the Robinson Division as team manager, where I managed Glenn Pavlosky," Bill has written of that period. Pavlosky raced for the division under him, one name on a roster Bill was building out at GT before Bill ever had a bike company of his own.

TECH Racing and the Founding of Supercross BMX

Pavlosky and Bill Ryan crossed paths again a few years later, this time with Bill on the sponsor side rather than the team-manager side. Bill's apparel company, TECH BMX Products, ran a small factory team alongside its racing-pants business — five riders: Pavlosky, Brian "Bogi" Givens, Brian Lopes, Kiyomi Waller, and Billy Harrison. As Bill put it, Pavlosky was a rider "who'd go on to ride for me again a few years later" after the Robinson days.

TECH was working with SE, Free Agent, Diamondback, MCS, and Elf at different points to get the team's riders frames, but the frame problem never really went away — particularly for AA Pro Billy Harrison, the rider the whole project was built around. When none of the outside options worked out, Bill built a frame from scratch instead. That decision, made for a five-rider roster that included Pavlosky, is the founding of Supercross BMX in 1989.

Where the public record runs thin

National-level race results, birth details, and hometown for Pavlosky are not documented in the period BMX press or the databases checked for this page. He does not appear in the USA BMX Hall of Fame or the major magazine "hot amateur" and "pro" roundups from the era. What's on record is the roster placement — Robinson, then TECH, then Supercross — confirmed directly by Bill Ryan and by Supercross BMX's own published company history. If you raced with or against Glenn Pavlosky and have results or photos, that's exactly the kind of detail this page is built to hold.

Where Glenn Pavlosky fits in the bigger story

Riders: Billy Harrison, Brian Lopes, Brian "Bogi" Givens, Billy Griggs. Brands: GT Bicycles, Robinson Racing, SE Racing, TECH BMX Products, Supercross BMX. The bigger arc is in our History of BMX series.

Sources

Bill Ryan, founder of Supercross BMX — first-hand recollection of managing Glenn Pavlosky at GT's Robinson division and later sponsoring him on the TECH Racing Team (primary source), as published on his own Legend Bike Co. page. Supercross BMX, "History of Supercross BMX," supercrossbmx.com — the founding of Supercross BMX in 1989; Bill Ryan corrected the TECH Racing Team roster firsthand in 2026 — the original five were Billy Harrison, Brian Lopes, Glenn Pavlosky, Brian "Bogi" Givens, and Kiyomi Waller, and John Gonzalez rode as a Supercross BMX pro later, not on the founding TECH team. oldschoolmags.com and bmxsociety.com were checked for independent period coverage of Pavlosky; neither returned results beyond general BMX archive material at the time of research.