The BMX History Library
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This page is the full index of the BMX history library. Every chapter is listed below, grouped by category. The narrative that ties them together is The History of BMX, the origin article covering 1970 to 1995. Read that one for the story. Use this page when you already know the name you're looking for.
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This origin article is the spine. Every name in it has its own deeper chapter on Legend Bike Co — the brand histories, the rider biographies, the sanction stories, the tracks, the magazines, and the bike shops most BMX histories skip. All 267 chapters, by category:
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The BMX Family Tree connects all 267 chapters into one story — who rode for who, who built what, who split off and started their own thing. If you'd rather see it than read it, Six Degrees of BMX is the same map, built to click through.
The Brands
- Addicks Engineering — Lyle Addicks and the Chainring That Changed Formulas Three Times
- AERO Racing Products — Pants, Jerseys, Plates, and the Riders Who Wore Them
- Bassett Bikes — Mike Redman's First BMX Company (1985)
- Bill Walters Leathers — The Burbank Leathermaker Motocross and BMX Racers Both Trusted (1972 to the Mid-1980s)
- The BMX Action Trick Team — The Act That Invented Freestyle
- Boss Racing — Carlo Lucia's Oakland Frame Shop and the Rise of U.S. Boss (1969 to 2000)
- Bottema Forks: The Bullet Fork That Set the Standard for BMX Tubular Forks
- Brian Scura & BS Bikeworks — Inventor of the Gyro, the Race Lace Hub, and the SST Catalog
- Centurion Cycles — The Parent of Diamond Back (1969 to 1990)
- Cook Bros. Racing — The Santa Ana Machine Shop That Out-Engineered BMX (1972 to Today)
- California Racing Designs — A Brand History
- CW Racing
- CYC BMX — The Hawthorne Distributor Behind the Stormer Line (c. 1975 to 1981)
- DG Performance — The Anaheim Motocross Company That Signed Bottema, Thomsen, and King (1975 to 1982)
- Diamond Back BMX — The Story of Western States Imports (1977 to Today)
- Dyno BMX — The Brand Bob Morales Built, and GT Bought
- Everything Bicycles — Howie Cohen's BMX Wholesaler That Brought Kuwahara, Powerlite, and the E.T. Bike Deal to America (1978 to 1989)
- Excaliber BMX — The Corpus Christi, Texas Race Frame That Never Topped 200
- FMF BMX — The Flying Machine Factory's One Wild Season Racing BMX (1973 to Today)
- Free Agent BMX — The Story of a Buena Park Brand (1984 to 2026)
- GJS — The Utterback Family's So Cal BMX Brand That Rewrote the Head Tube Gusset (1978 to 1985)
- GT Bicycles: The Biggest Brand BMX Ever Built
- Haro: The Company That Invented Freestyle
- Hi-Tech BMX — The Story of the Frame I Built at 13 (1982 to 1984)
- Hoffman Bikes — The Brand Mat Built So He Could Keep Riding (1991 to Today)
- Hustler Bikes — The Ralph's Bicycles Brand from Downey, California
- Hutch BMX — The Maryland Mail-Order Shop That Became "The Most Beautiful Bike in the World"
- Hyper Bikes — Two Brands, One Name, From a Teenager's Garage to Walmart's Bike Aisle (1983 to Today)
- JMC Racing — The Story of Jim Melton Cyclery (1969 to 1985)
- Kashimax — The Osaka Saddle Company Behind BMX's Aero Seat (1936 to Today)
- Kuwahara — The Osaka Bike Maker Behind the E.T. BMX (1918 to Today)
- Laguna Distributors — The Orange County BMX Line Backed by Motocross Champion Jimmy Weinert (1977 to 1984)
- LRV (Leisure Recreational Vehicles) — The Bridge Brand Between Matthews and Robinson Racing
- Max BMX Pants — Torker's Racing-Pants Brand (1980–1985)
- Mongoose: From a Garage in Simi Valley to Every Driveway in America
- Neal Enterprises — The Jive Handles Company
- Oakley — The BMX Grip Company That Became an Eyewear Empire (1975 to Today)
- Panda Racing Products — Brand History
- Patterson Racing — The Family Brand Built Around Two Fast Brothers (1977 to 1986)
- Phil Wood & Co. — The San Jose Hub Maker BMX's Premium Builds Reached For
- Pro-Neck — The National Pro, Kevin McNeal, and the Frame That Carried Bill Ryan's Hi-Tech Design Forward
- Profile Racing — The St. Petersburg Machine Shop Behind the BMX 3-Piece Crank (1968 to Today)
- R&R Racing Products — The North Hollywood Brand Behind Jeff Kosmala's First Bike
- Rebel Racing — The Story of the San Antonio BMX Brand (1981 to 1987)
- Redline: The Frame That Built Two Sports
- Robinson Racing — The Story of Chuck Robinson (1978 to 2001)
- RRS Racing — Riverside Redlands Schwinn: The Bike Shop Brand Behind the UNCruiser
- S&M Bikes — The Rider-Owned Brand That Wouldn't Quit (1987 to Today)
- S&S Performance — The Street & Strip BMX Brand That Sponsored Pistol Pete
- Schwinn: The Accidental Godfather of BMX
- SE Racing — The Story of Scot Enterprises (1977 to Today)
- Skyway Recreation Products — The Company Behind the Tuff Wheel
- Skyway — The Story of a Wheel That Wouldn't Break (1963 to Today)
- Speedo Racing Products — The Hayward Shop That Became Patterson Racing
- Suntour — The Derailleur Giant's BMX Freewheel (1970s to 1980s)
- Supercross BMX — The Story of a Team That Needed a Frame (1989 to Today)
- TECH BMX Pants — The Brand I Built at 15
- Tioga — The Japanese Tire Brand Behind BMX's Comp III (BMX History)
- Titan BMX — The Texas Titanium Brand That Moved to Oregon (1982 to 1992)
- Torker: The Frame That Built Two Sports
- Tuf-Neck — The Stem Every BMX Kid Wanted, and the Company That Became Pro-Neck (1977 to the early 1980s)
- TW Racing — The Brand That Taught Pete Loncarevich's Geometry (1979–1981)
- Two Wheelers — Marshall Wheeler's Stroker and the RC Cola Race of Champions
- Vans — The Shoe That Grew Up With BMX
- Voris Dixon Bikes — The Story of VDC and Voris Dixon Company (1979 to 1985)
- WEBCO
- White Bear Racing Products — The Northern California Frame Brand Behind the T-Bone (1987-1999)
- White Lightning — Rick Ankrom's North Hollywood BMX Brand
- Wizard Number Plates — Dave Marietti and the Number-Plate Trade That Built BMX
- AFA — American Freestyle Association: Freestyle's First Sanctioning Body (1982 to 1990)
- 2-Hip / King of Vert — Ron Wilkerson's Rider-Run Answer to the AFA (1985 to Today)
- Race Inc. — Bill Bastian's Southern California Shop Behind the First Mass-Produced Aluminum BMX Frame (1976 to 1984)
- Tange — The Osaka Tubing and Headset Maker Behind BMX's Chromoly Frames (1920 to Today)
- Araya — The Osaka Rim Maker Behind BMX's 7X and Aero Wheels (1903 to Today)
- Ukai — Japan's Other Great BMX Rim Maker (1970s-1980s OEM Spec)
- Sugino — The Nara Crank Maker Behind BMX's Maxy Cross (1910 to Today)
- ACS — American Cycle Systems and the ACS Rotor (1971 to Today)
- Bullseye — Roger Durham's Sealed-Bearing Hubs and Hurricane Cranks
- Bull Shot Lubricant — What the Record Actually Shows
- Electro Helmets — What the Record Actually Shows
- MCS Bicycles — The Florida BMX Brand George Esser Started (1976 to Today)
- Raleigh — The British Giant's BMX Chapter, From the Burner to Bottema (1979 to 1988)
- Scorpion Bikes — The Cal-Facet BMX Import (Chatsworth, California, Late 1970s to 1984)
- DRP Bicycles — Delta Racing Products, the Rarest Frame in the Library (1977 to 1978)
- Beavers Bicycle Shop — A Tarzana BMX Shop in the Bike-Shop Chapter
- Alliant — The Second Act of SE Racing and GT Bicycles (2000 to 2005)
- Ambrosio — The Turin Rim Maker That Made a Rare Cameo in BMX (1923 to Today)
- Hank & Frank Bicycles — The FORCE Frame from Oakland, California
- Huffy — Ohio's Mass-Market Giant Goes BMX Racing
- Pacific Cycle, Dorel, and PON Holdings — the Corporate Thread Behind a Dozen BMX Brands
- Powerlite — From Steve Rink's Peddlepower Shop to GT Bicycles
- Riteway Distribution — the SoCal Distributor GT Bought, and What It Cost CW Racing
- Speed Unlimited / Thruster — The Wayne, New Jersey Frame Builder Behind the FORCE
- Star Products / Star BMX — Run by Greg Hill's Father, Not to Be Confused With GHP
- Sun Metal Products — The Warsaw, Indiana Rim Maker Behind BMX's Everyday Wheel (1946 to Today)
- Traker — The Wisconsin Cycle BMX Brand VDC Built On an Oval-Tube Fork (1981 to 1987)
- Ultramax — Don Parscale's Featherweight BMX Cranks, and a Freestyle Frame That Borrowed the Name
- Vector — The Knoxville Bar-and-Stem Brand Bob Haro Helped Design (1982 Onward)
- Wheels N' Things — Sandy Finkelman's Shop and the WT Racer
The Riders
- Andy Zirzow — Riverside's RRS and CW BMX Racer
- Bill Ryan
- Billy "Mr. Bill" Griggs — 1988 ABA Yamaha Supercup Pro Champion, 2013 National BMX Hall of Fame
- Billy Harrison — The AA Pro Who Named Supercross BMX, 1989
- Bob Haro — The Godfather of Freestyle
- Bob Morales — Founder of Dyno and the AFA
- Bob Osborn — The Man Who Built BMX Action
- Bobby Encinas — Shimano's First Pro and BMX's First Touring Coach
- Brent Patterson — 1980 ABA National No.1 Pro
- Brent Romero — The Amateur Who Owned 1985
- Brian "Bogi" Givens — Original Supercross BMX TECH Team Rider, 1989
- Brian "Lil Pepe" Hernandez — The First Amateur on the First Supercross BMX Factory Team
- Brian Lewis — BMX Action's First Cover Rider
- Brian Lopes — The BMX Kid Who Became a Four-Time Mountain Bike World Champion
- Brian Patterson — ABA National No.1 Pro, 1982 and 1983
- Byron Friday — "TGI"
- Clint "The Barbarian" Miller
- Ceppie Maes — The CW Racing Flatlander Who Rode Stunts for E.T. Before Freestyle Made Him Famous
- Charlie Brackens — Tommy Brackens' Younger Brother, Ascot BMX Local, Factory Powerlite
- Charlie Williams — Robinson, Hutch, and GHP Racer Still Turning Laps at the Grands
- Cheri Elliott — Skyway's Three-Time ABA No. 1 Girl Who Became a Two-Time Hall of Famer
- Damian Fulton — Creator of Radical Rick
- Darwin Griffin — 1987 ABA National No.1 Cruiser and Mid-School BMX Pro
- Dave Cullinan — "Cully," From Mike Redman's Bassett Team to a World Championship Rainbow Jersey
- Dave Mirra — The Most Decorated BMX Rider of His Era
- Dave Nourie — "Gumby," Flatland Pioneer of the Haro Tour Era
- David Clinton — BMX's First National No. 1 and Its First Official Pro
- Dean Bradley — The Editor Who Put "Mountain Bike" in Print First
- Dennis McCoy — "The Real McCoy," The Longest Career in Freestyle
- Denny Davidow — Delta Racing, TW, Skyway, Redline Proline, and Bassett (Mike Redman's version)
- Dino DeLuca — "The Lookback King" of Dyno/GT Freestyle
- Donny Jones — BMX Action's 1977 Test Rider, 'Building Leapin'' of the Pit
- Eddie Fiola
- Eddy King — King Edward / Silver Bullet
- Eric Carter — The Golden Child Who Won Worlds on Two Kinds of Bike
- Eric Rupe — "Big Daddy" and One of the Longest Careers BMX Ever Saw
- Ernie Alexander — Founder of the National Bicycle Association (NBA)
- Frank Post — "Wildman" of Watsonville, 2015 BMX Hall of Fame Pioneer
- Gary Ellis — "The Lumberjack," Four-Time ABA National No. 1 Pro and GT's Longest-Running Champion
- Gary Turner — Co-Founder of GT Bicycles
- George Esser — Founder of the NBL, Co-Founder of the IBMXF
- Gerrit Does — The Godfather of European BMX, Co-Founder of the IBMXF
- Glenn Pavlosky — GT Robinson Racer and Original Supercross BMX TECH Team Rider, 1989
- Greg Hill
- Howie Cohen — The Importer Who Brought Kuwahara to America and Landed the E.T. Bike Deal
- Jason Donnell
- Jeff Bottema — Racer, Fork Designer, and BMX Hall of Famer
- Jeff Utterback — The JU-6, GJS Bicycles, and the Frame Behind the PK Ripper
- Jim Melton — Founder of Jim Melton Cyclery (JMC)
- John Crews
- Kevin McNeal — "The Corona Kid," 1981 ABA No. 1 Pro, First Torker MX Rider
- Kiyomi Waller
- Lee Medlin — The Corona Kid Who Doubled at the 1981 BMX Worlds and Turned Pro at 18
- Linn Kastan — Co-Founder of Redline Engineering and the Father of the Chromoly BMX Bike
- Martin Aparijo — "The Chairman" of Flatland, Torker and GT Factory Pro
- Mat Hoffman — "The Condor"
- Matt Hadan — "The Diesel," 1986 World Champion, Torker AA Pro
- Mike Buff — R.L. Osborn's Trick Team Partner
- Mike King — "The Snake," Three-Time ABA National No.1 Who Went On to Coach Team USA BMX
- Mike "Hollywood" Miranda
- Mike Redman — "Redbone," Bassett Bikes, MRC, and Redman Bikes
- Perry "P.K.Ripper" Kramer
- Pete "The Pistol" Loncarevich
- R.L. Osborn
- Richard Long — Co-Founder of GT Bicycles
- Richie Anderson
- Robert Emrich — One of the Emrich Brothers Who Rode the Pit
- Rod Beckering — "Bronco," the SE Racing Crash That Changed the PK Ripper
- Ron Wilkerson — The Rider Who Built the Halfpipe Around Himself
- Ronnie Anderson
- Scot Breithaupt
- Sean McKinney — S&M Bikes Flatland Pro and Frame Designer
- Skip Hess — Founder of BMX Products, Inc. / Mongoose
- Spike Jonze — The Freestylin' Photographer Who Became an Oscar-Winning Filmmaker
- Steve Skibel — DG's Second BMX Team Manager, Confirmed by His Own 2017 Blog Comment
- Stu Thomsen — "Stompin' Stu" / "The Man"
- Todd Anderson
- Todd Steen — Supercross BMX A Pro and Strongarm Crank Test Rider
- Tommy "The Human Dragster" Brackens
- Tony Degollado — Haro Team Manager Turned BMX Industry Builder
- Turnell "Tuni" Henry — BMX Hall of Famer, Harbor BMX Coach, La Palma Cycle Center
- Wade Nomura — Five-Time National BMX Champion and Founder of Nomura Racing
- Windy Osborn
- Woody Itson — Flatland Pioneer of the Hutch Trick Star and Diamond Back Strike Zone Eras
- Kevin Hull
- Will Scurto
- Andy Jenkins — The Freestylin' Editor Who Became a Skateboard Art Director
- Craig "gOrk" Barrette — The Editor Known by One Name at BMX Action and the ABA
- Don Toshach — Managing Editor Who Helped Launch Freestylin' Magazine
- Tim Judge — "Da Judge," the Hutch Factory Racer Who Invented the One Footer
- Danny Millwee — "The Missile," Auburn Cycles Factory Racer and Rad (1986) Stunt Rider
- Tracer Finn — Factory CW Racer, Vegas BMX Pioneer, 2014 National BMX Hall of Fame
- Tosh Muraviov — 1982 CW Racing Expert Racer, Stepbrother of Andy Patterson
- Richard "Rich" Bartlett — The Butcher Who Invented the BMX Rhythmn Section
- Marvin Church Sr. & Jr. — The Family Credited with BMX's First Frame
- John George — BMX's First National Champion
- John "Snaggletooth" Palfryman — 1975's Fastest Racer, Later a World-Class Sidehack Champion
- Chris Moeller — The Teenage BMX Action Test Rider Who Founded S&M Bikes
- Dave Vanderspek — The Curb Dogs' Leader Who Built Golden Gate Park's Freestyle Scene
- Tinker Juarez — Mongoose's BMX Pro Who Became a Two-Time Olympic Mountain Biker
- Kevin Jones — The Plywood Hoods' Flatland Architect
- Mike Dominguez — "Mike D," the Haro Sport's First Signature Rider
- Brian Blyther — "Blyther Style," Haro's Vert Anchor Through the Golden Era
- Steve Potts — Owner of the Original Bicycle Source, Creator of the ACS Rotor
- Mark Lewman — The Freestylin' Editor Who Wrote His Way In From Kalamazoo
- Josh White — The Oregon Kid Who Landed BMX's First 540
- Māris Štrombergs — Latvia's Two-Time Olympic BMX Champion
- Bubba Harris — Three-Time ABA No. 1 Pro and UCI World Champion
- Mike Day — 365 Day, Silver Medalist on the First US Olympic BMX Team
- Ryan Nyquist — Haro's Triple Threat, One of X Games BMX's Most Decorated Riders
- Brian Foster — The Blue Falcon, ABA/NBL Racer Turned Dirt Jumping Champion
- Craig Reynolds — "Mr. Smooth," the Racer Who Built Bikes for Riders Too Tall for Pro Frames
- Darrell Young — JMC's Signature Pro and the 1982 IBMXF World Championship
- Thom Lund — Early BMX Racer, Saddleback's Disputed Champion
- Vance Patterson — Founder of Patterson Racing
- Craig Kundig — Riverside Redlands Schwinn's Racer, Coach, and Frame Designer
- Ralph Mundia — Ralph's Bicycles, BMX's First Mobile Shop
- Rick Moliterno — Flatland Pioneer, Standard Byke Company Founder
- Craig Grasso — South Bay Street Riding Pioneer
- John "Dizz" Hicks — CW Racing's King of the Wedge Ramp
- Dan Gurney — the Racing Legend Whose Name Went on a BMX Bike (1974 to 1976)
- Len Weed — The Writer Behind BMX Freestylin', 1982
- Cecil Johns — NorCal's AA Pro and the Voice Behind Boss Racing
- Donny Robinson — Bronze in the First Olympic BMX Final Ever Held
- James Cassimus — Skateboarding's Photo Editor, With a Real but Secondary BMX Record
- Lonnie Tatton — A Southern California Privateer Pro of the 1980s
- Mike Devitt — SE Racing's Restart, the Long PK, and Alliant
- Nick Liberatore — Diamondback's Gate-to-Pro Racer of the Late '80s and Early '90s
- Randy Stumpfhauser — “Stumpy,” Fifteen National and World Titles Across Three Sanctioning Bodies
- Rob Lynch — Peddlepower's Third Owner and the Founder of Privateer
- Stanley Robinson — Fresno's Mongoose Factory Rider Who Invented the Two-Pedal Start
- Steve Veltman — The Only BMX Racer Ever on a Wheaties Box
- Todd Lyons — Wildman, World Champion, and the Voice of Modern SE Bikes
The Sanctions
- BUMS — Bicycle United Motocross Society: The First BMX Sanction (1970)
- The NBA — National Bicycle Association — The First National Sanction in BMX
- NBL — The Story of the National Bicycle League (1974 to 2011)
- ABA — American Bicycle Association: The Sanction History
- IBMXF — The International BMX Federation (1981–1993)
- USA BMX — The Sanction Born from the ABA / NBL Merger (2011 to Today)
The Magazines
- Bicycle Motocross News — The Magazine That Started BMX, Published by Elaine Holt (1974 to the Late 1970s)
- BMX Action Magazine — The Bible of BMX, Built by Bob Osborn and Wizard Publications (1976 to 1989)
- BMX Plus! Magazine — The One That Ran My Frame, Then Made Me an Editor (1978 to 2015)
- Freestylin' Magazine — The Wizard Publications Title That Made Freestyle a Culture (1984–1989)
- GO: The Rider's Manual — The Magazine BMX Action and Freestylin' Became
- Super BMX Magazine — The Challenge Publications Years (1980 to 1988)
- American BMXer — The ABA's Member Magazine (1978 to Today)
- Bicycles Today / BMX Today — The NBL's Member Magazine (1977 to 2009)
- Total BMX Magazine — The East Coast's First Slick (1980 to 1983)
- Radical Rick — The BMX Plus! Comic Strip That Became the Sport's Mascot (1980 to 1993)
- Club Homeboy — The Freestylin' Inside Joke That Became a BMX Cult (1986 to 1989)
- Action Now Magazine — When SkateBoarder Widened Its Lens to BMX (1980-1982)
The Tracks
- The Tracks That Built BMX
- Ascot BMX: Racing on Hallowed Ground
- Azusa BMX: Rich Long's Track, Where the ABA Went National
- Corona Raceway: The Downhill That Scared the Fast Kids
- Entradero BMX: Ground Zero for the South Bay
- La Mirada BMX: The Fast Start and the Big Downhill
- The Orange Y: The World Famous Mecca of BMX
- Pipeline: The Upland Skatepark and BMX Track Behind King of the Skateparks
- Saddleback Park: The Motocross Icon That Paid BMX's First Pro Purse
- The Amarillo A'me $5,000 Pro Spectacular — Where Quarter-Pipe Aerials Debuted
- Monrovia BMX: Darrel Foster's Track and the Sunday-Morning Slot
- The Jag BMX World Championships — Renny Roker's Race That Sparked the IBMXF
- Apple Valley BMX Moto Park: The High Desert Track That Outlived Three Sanctions
- Palms Park: Ron Mackler's Track, and BMX's Oldest Argument