How do you spell Tracer Finn's name?

Tracer Finn — confirmed by the USA BMX National BMX Hall of Fame's official 2014 induction entry and consistent across period race listings.

What team did Tracer Finn race for?

Factory CW (CW Racing), the Brea, California brand also home to Mike Miranda, Billy Griggs, and Pistol Pete Loncarevich.

Why is Tracer Finn in the National BMX Hall of Fame?

He was inducted in the Pioneer category, Class of 2014, for putting Las Vegas BMX on the national map through his factory CW racing and BMX Action magazine coverage, and for his post-racing work building the sport, including a stint as Specialized's BMX team manager.

Tracer Finn — Factory CW Racer, Vegas BMX Pioneer, 2014 National BMX Hall of Fame

Tracer Finn

Las Vegas, Nevada · Factory CW (CW Racing) · National BMX Hall of Fame, Pioneer Class of 2014 · Later Specialized BMX team manager

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At a glance

Name: Tracer Finn. Confirmed against the USA BMX National BMX Hall of Fame's official entry and against a BMX Society community forum's period listing of the 1982 Waterford National.

Hometown: Las Vegas, Nevada.

Team: Factory CW (CW Racing), the Brea, California brand.

Known for: Putting Las Vegas on the BMX map, with numerous Hot Shot features in BMX Action magazine.

Hall of Fame: National BMX Hall of Fame, Pioneer Class of 2014.

After racing: Team Manager for the Specialized BMX program for four years, working with T.J. Lavin and Christophe Leveque; also ran a bike shop that backed its own race team, promoted mountain bike races, ran Police Athletic League events and BMX skatepark programs, and mentored riders.

Putting Las Vegas on the map

According to his USA BMX Hall of Fame entry, it's fair to say Tracer Finn is responsible for putting Las Vegas on the BMX map. He raced under factory CW sponsorship — the same Brea, California program that carried Mike "Hollywood" Miranda, Billy Griggs, and Pistol Pete Loncarevich — and his jumping put Sin City in the pages of BMX Action again and again through Hot Shot features. The best-known of them: Finn skying his bike over his family's Vaudeville piano act, complete with Vegas showgirls and card dealers. A BMX Weekly podcast interview with Finn, recorded during USA BMX Hall of Fame weekend in 2019, confirms the entertainment-family backdrop — Finn came up working and growing up in Vegas around the family's show-business trade, and the same episode has him talking about playing piano on the Strip for that BMX Action shoot.

A BMX Society community forum thread recalling the 1982 Waterford National in Michigan lists Finn racing 17 & Over Expert and making the Main there — a rare piece of independent period corroboration for a national-level result outside his home turf, on the CW factory program.

The price of racing

Finn's Hall of Fame entry doesn't leave out what the sport cost him: he lost half his pinky finger in a crash at an ABA Gold Cup Championship, caught in his chainring.

After racing

Finn's post-racing résumé is long. He promoted and ran mountain bike races, worked Police Athletic League events, organized BMX skatepark programs, mentored younger riders, and owned a bike shop that supported its own race team. For four years he was Team Manager for the Specialized BMX program, working alongside T.J. Lavin and Christophe Leveque during the team's strongest years. The BMX Weekly interview places that Specialized stretch in the mid-1990s to early 2000s.

National BMX Hall of Fame, 2014

Finn was inducted into the National BMX Hall of Fame in the Pioneer category as part of the Class of 2014, announced alongside that year's full inductee group and covered by Bicycle Retailer and Industry News.

Where the record runs thin

Tracer Finn's birth year and a full national-level results ledger beyond the 1982 Waterford National Main aren't documented in the primary-tier sources checked for this page. The BMX Society reference used here comes from a JavaScript-rendered forum thread; its content is reported here from search-result snippets rather than a direct page read, and is disclosed as such.

Where he fits

Tracer Finn raced in the era covered in The History of BMX, on the same CW Racing factory program that carried Mike Miranda, Billy Griggs, and Pistol Pete Loncarevich.

Sources

USA BMX National BMX Hall of Fame, official "Tracer Finn" entry, Pioneer Class of 2014 (usabmx.com/site/postings/1227). BMX Weekly, "Podcast – Tracer Finn" (October 2019), recorded at USA BMX Hall of Fame weekend. Bicycle Retailer and Industry News, "BMX Hall of Fame announces 2014 inductees." BMX Society community forum thread on 1982 Michigan-era racers, referencing the Waterford National (bmxsociety.com; JS-rendered, content reported from search snippets). Legend Bike Co.'s own CW Racing history page, which independently names Tracer Finn among CW's factory riders.

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