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S7S BMX

Small late-1980s / early-1990s BMX brand · published record thin · open page · community help requested

S7S is one of the small BMX brands that the magazine and Hall of Fame record never quite caught up with. We are publishing this page short and honest rather than padding it with guesses. If you have an S7S ad, catalog, team photo, or frame, please get in touch.

What we know

S7S is referenced in collector-era oral history as a small American BMX brand active in the late 1980s and into the early 1990s. The published record we can verify is genuinely thin. There is no bmxmuseum.com brand gallery for S7S under the obvious spellings. There is no Wikipedia entry. The oldschoolmags.com PDF archive of BMX Action, BMX Plus!, and Super BMX did not surface an S7S advertisement on the searches we ran for this page.

That puts S7S in collector-only territory — the kind of small program that may have run on jerseys and stickers more visibly than in national magazine ads, and that may have been short-lived enough to leave a very small published footprint.

The Loncarevich and Davidow question

S7S is sometimes named in oral history as a connector brand between Pete Loncarevich and Denny Davidow — the suggestion being that both riders were on the team together at some point. We have not been able to verify that pairing against the primary sources, and the timing does not line up cleanly against what is already documented:

• Pete Loncarevich has one of the most fully-documented sponsor timelines in BMX racing, sourced to Bicycle Motocross Action, BMX Action, BMX Plus!, Super BMX, and Go Magazine ads and features from 1977 forward. His primary sponsors of record run Cook Bros → S&S Performance → TW Racing → Diamond Back → SE Racing → LRP → Shadow Racing → CW Racing → Haro Designs → Vans/MCS → Vans/Diamondback → Vans/Hawk Racing → GHP/Pro Forx → ParkPre. S7S does not appear on that list. TW Racing, named in the framing, was Pete's amateur sponsor from December 1979 to September 1980 — early in his career, not late.
• Denny Davidow, per our existing page, is documented on Delta Racing Products in 1978, TW BMX around 1979 to 1980, and Skyway as a Tuff Wheel co-sponsor in the very early 1980s. His magazine cover and feature run is 1980 to 1982. The reported late-1980s S7S window sits outside that documented active period.

Neither finding rules S7S out. Co-sponsorships, regional shop deals, comeback rides, and short-lived programs all happened in BMX and did not always make the magazine record. We are flagging the contradictions instead of writing around them.

Open questions

Help us close the page

If you owned an S7S frame, raced for the team, have a magazine ad clipped, or have a catalog scan, please reach out. We will update this page with sourced information and credit the contributor. A working brand history beats a polished guess every time.

Sources and verification trail