Is it spelled Traker or Trakker?

The primary source on this brand, Voris Dixon's own interview, spells it Traker, one K. That is the spelling this page uses. Trakker turns up in casual references but is a variant spelling, not a separately confirmed detail.

Who made Traker frames?

Voris Dixon, owner of VDC in Santa Ana, California, built the Traker frames and forks under contract for Wisconsin Cycle Supply, run by Sharon Barons out of Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

What made the Traker frame distinctive?

An oval-section top tube and matching oval-tube fork, a design Dixon originally built for himself before Wisconsin Cycle Supply picked it up. Frames built from that tubing had a documented weakness: they tended to break after about nine months of use.

Is Traker the same as Torker?

No. Torker is a separate, independent BMX brand. Traker was Wisconsin Cycle Supply's brand name, confirmed directly in Voris Dixon's own interview. A secondary summary of that interview lists Torker among Dixon's clients, which appears to be a spelling slip for Traker rather than a second contract relationship, since nothing in Dixon's own question-and-answer record mentions Torker.

Traker — The Wisconsin Cycle BMX Brand VDC Built On an Oval-Tube Fork (1981 to 1987)

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Traker

The Wisconsin Cycle Supply BMX brand VDC built, starting from a fork nobody else wanted

A note on spelling. This chapter was drafted internally under the name Trakker. The primary source — Voris Dixon's own interview, conducted by Jay Stark and hosted at snakebitebmx.com — spells it Traker, one K, and that is the spelling used throughout this page. Trakker turns up in casual references but isn't the spelling the record supports.

An oval-tube fork nobody had asked for

Traker didn't start as a plan. It started with tubing. Voris Dixon, running his Santa Ana job shop VDC, got hold of a batch of oval-section tubing and built himself a set of forks out of it, just to see what it would do. Roger Worsham from CW saw them sitting in the shop and wanted in, but wouldn't agree to buy Dixon's whole output in exchange for exclusive rights. Dixon wouldn't give him exclusivity without it, so the forks stayed available.

Sharon Barons, who ran Wisconsin Cycle Supply out of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, saw the oval-tube forks at a regional bicycle show and wanted them for her own brand. Dixon started building for her instead, and Worsham, who had turned down the exclusive deal, was reportedly furious that Barons got what he'd passed on.

Wisconsin Cycle Supply, and the brand called Traker

Wisconsin Cycle Supply built its BMX line under the name Traker, with frames and forks contract-built by VDC in Santa Ana and shipped out to Sheboygan. The oval top tube was the signature look, matching the fork. It wasn't trouble-free: Dixon's own account is that the frames built from that tubing started breaking after about nine months in the field. Barons ordered 5,000 feet of the oval tubing from Dixon up front and paid for all of it in advance, so the material cost wasn't a loss on his end even as the durability problem showed up.

The Traker line ran through the 1980s, with models including the Standard, Pro Long, Rumbler, Street Heat, and a Freestyle. A 1983 Traker Denny Owens signature model, built for rider Denny Owens with bladed forks and VDC-made freestyle bars, is documented among surviving bikes on BMXmuseum.com, evidence the brand had at least one rider worth naming a model after. Later Traker production is reported to have moved to Taiwan as the brand continued into the mid-to-late 1980s, outside the window VDC was directly involved in.

Where the record runs thin

The exact years of the VDC-built run. Dixon's interview establishes the relationship but not a start or end date. Collector references point to an early-1980s start; when Traker moved production to Taiwan, and whether VDC was still involved at that point, isn't independently confirmed here.
Sharon Barons herself. Beyond running Wisconsin Cycle Supply and buying the oval-tube tooling outright, nothing further about her role or background turned up in the sources checked for this page.
A full model-year lineup. The models named above are documented through surviving bikes and forum threads rather than a factory catalog located directly.

The VDC connection

Traker is one entry on a longer list. Voris Dixon's Santa Ana shop, VDC, contract-built frames and parts for a wide range of BMX brands through the early 1980s, some of which competed directly against each other at the gate — including Vector and Star Products, both VDC clients in the same years. The fuller story of the shop, and the client list Traker sits on, is on the Voris Dixon Bikes / VDC chapter.

Sources

BMX Icons // Voris Dixon Interview, conducted by Jay Stark, hosted at snakebitebmx.com — the primary source for the Traker/Wisconsin Cycle relationship and the oval-tube fork story. BMXmuseum.com brand and forum listings for Traker, including the 1983 Traker Denny Owens entry, referenced for models and riders. Search-indexed summaries of BMX Products USA and BMXmuseum.com collector listings, used for the Standard/Pro Long/Rumbler/Street Heat/Freestyle model names; these pages could not be loaded directly and are disclosed as secondary, search-derived sourcing rather than a direct page read.

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