| Tinker Juarez | |
| Fullname: | David Juarez |
| Nickname: | "Tinker", "Hollifield Flash" |
| Birth Date: | 4 March 1961 |
| Birth Place: | Downey, California, United States |
| Height: | 1.73m (05.68feet) |
| Weight: | 63.5kg (140lb) |
| Currentteam: | - |
| Discipline: | Bicycle Motocross (BMX) Mountain bike racing (MTB) |
| Role: | Racer |
| Ridertype: | BMX: Off Road MTB: Cross-country |
| Amateuryears1: | 1974 |
| Amateurteam1: | Two Wheeler's |
| Amateuryears2: | 1974-1975 |
| Amateurteam2: | Bicycle Motocros News |
| Amateuryears3: | 1975-1976 |
| Amateurteam3: | Kawasaki Motors |
| Amateuryears4: | 1976 |
| Amateurteam4: | National Bicycle Association |
| Amateuryears5: | 1976-77 |
| Amateurteam5: | Mongoose |
| Proyears1: | 1977-1982 |
| Proteam1: | Mongoose |
| Proyears2: | 1982 |
| Proteam2: | JMC Racing |
| Proyears3: | 1983-1985 |
| Proteam3: | Bandito Racing |
| Proyears4: | 1985 |
| Proteam4: | ODI |
| Proyears5: | 1985 |
| Proteam5: | Maximum |
| Proyears6: | 1989-1989 |
| Proteam6: | General Bicycles |
| Proyears7: | 1990-1993 |
| Proteam7: | Klein Bicycles |
| Proyears8: | 1994-2002 |
| Proteam8: | Volvo/Cannondale |
| Proyears9: | 2003 |
| Proteam9: | Siemens/Cannondale |
| Proyears10: | 2004-2005 |
| Proteam10: | Mona Vie |
| Proyears11: | 2006-2021 |
| Proteam11: | Mona Vie/Cannondale |
| Majorwins: | 1995 Pan Am Games Gold Medalist 2001,'02,'03,'04 24-hour endurance category National Champion |
David "Tinker" Juarez (born March 4, 1961) is an American former professional BMX and cross-country mountain bike racer. His prime competitive years in BMX were from 1978 to 1984 and in mountain bike racing 1986 to 2005. Since late 2005, he has competed as a Marathon mountain bike racer. In all three disciplines, he has won numerous national and international competitions. Most recently, Juarez finished third in the 2006 Race Across America Endurance bicycle race.
Born in Downey, California, Juarez is a highly talented cyclist who has made significant impacts in the cycling disciplines of BMX Racing, Freestyle BMX, Cross-country Mountain Bike racing, and now Marathon Mountain Bike racing for over thirty years. While he was also known as the "Hollified Flash" after one of his home BMX tracks he used to race at and dominate in the early-1970s,[1] the moniker "Tinker" is a nickname that was coined by his family. According to his Mother Rose: "We used to say 'Stinker' when he was a baby, everybody thought we were saying 'Tinker"[2] David Juarez is so well known by his nickname "Tinker" many people probably think that is his real first name.
Note: In the early days of professional racing, 1977 and prior, many tracks offered small purse prize money to the older racers of an event, even before the official sanctioning bodies offered prize money in formal divisions themselves. Hence some early "professionals" like Stu Thomsen turning "pro" in 1975 at 16 years old where racing for small amounts of money at track events[3] when offered even before the NBA, regarded as the first true national BMX sanctioning body, had a professional division. For the sake of consistency and standardization noted professional first are for the first pro races for prize money offered by official BMX sanctioning bodies and not independent track events. Professional first are also on the national level unless otherwise indicated.
| Milestone | Event Details | |
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| Started racing: | 1974 at 13 years of age. | |
| Sanctioning body: | Independent track. | |
| Home sanctioning body district(s): | National Bicycle Association (NBA) District "X" (Southern California/Los Angeles County) 1973-1981; American Bicycle Association (ABA) California District 22 (CA-22) (1982) | |
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| First national win: | In 14 & Over Intermediate at the first annual National Bicycle Association (NBA) Grandnational Championship in Newhall, California on November 23, 1975.[4]). This was the first ever BMX Grandnational Championship. | |
| Turned Professional: | 1977 Age 16. | |
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| First Senior Pro win: | --> | |
| Height and weight at height of his career: | Ht:5'8" Wt:~140 lb. | |
| Retired: | 1986 at age 25. His possible last race was the NBL War of the Stars IX National in Montclair, California on April 27, 1986. He came in third in Pro Cruiser.[5] His name apparently drops off the national results listing permanently after this race. He transitions to mountain biking during the summer of 1986. Unlike most BMXers who "retire", he never looked back and dedicated the rest of his cycling career to Mountain Biking and later endurance Road Racing. | |
Note: This listing only denotes the racer's primary sponsors. At any given time a racer could have numerous ever-changing co-sponsors. Primary sponsorships can be verified by BMX and MTB press coverage and sponsor's advertisements at the time in question. When possible exact dates are used.
Note: Listed are District, State/Provincial/Department, Regional, National, and International titles in italics. "Defunct" refers to the fact of that sanctioning body in question no longer existing at the start of the racer's career or at that stage of his/her career. Depending on point totals of individual racers, winners of Grand Nationals do not necessarily win National titles. Series and one off Championships are also listed in block.
National Bicycle Association (NBA)
National Bicycle League (NBL)
American Bicycle Association (ABA)
United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)
International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)
National Bicycle Association (NBA)
National Bicycle League (NBL)
American Bicycle Association (ABA)
United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)
International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)
Independent Events and Series
In April 1980, Tinker was named the first King of the Skateparks by Bicycle Motocross Action magazine.[9] He even graced the April 1980 cover of the magazine, making it one of the first pure freestyle magazine covers by a BMX magazine. Although no contest was ever held, it was a general declaration for his highly advanced maneuvers that no one were matching at the time.
Tinker, despite eventually becoming a top pro BMXer in racing and gaining "high airs" in both dirt jumping and vertical freestyle, went ten years without breaking a bone. It is very common for BMXers, especially in the pro ranks to become occasionally seriously injured because they are pushing themselves to as far as their talents can take them and beyond at high speeds, or in the case of vertical freestyle and dirt jumping to high altitudes and distances.
Tinker also participated in what was call Formula One (F-1) bicycle racing. F-1 racing was a short lived fad from 1987–1989 that involved bicycles with 20" wheels that looked like a cross between BMX, Road Race Touring and Mountain bicycles. Other famous BMX stars both retired and active at the time participated, including Harry Leary, Pete Loncarevich, David Clinton, Stu Thomsen, Eddy and Mike King. The two major BMX sanctioning bodies ABA and NBL, sanctioned the events. Tinker won the first ABA sponsored F-1 series race in Phoenix, Arizona in early 1988. In the following NBL sanctioned Grand Prix series he got a sixth in Memphis, Tennessee (the very first NBL F-1 race) and a second in Orlando, Florida.
Bicycle Motocross News:
Minicycle/BMX Action & Super BMX:
Bicycle Motocross Action & Go:
BMX Plus!:
BMX Weekly & BMX B-Weekly: (British publication)
Total BMX:
Bicycles and Dirt (ABA Publication):
NBA World & NBmxA World (The official NBA/NBmxA membership publication under two names):
Bicycles Today & BMX Today (The official NBL membership publication under two names):
ABA Action, American BMXer, BMXer (The official ABA membership publication under three names):
USBA Racer (The official USBA membership publication):
In 1986, Tinker made the switch from BMX to mountain biking. Since that time, Tinker has become a 3-time National Off-Road Bicycle Association (NORBA) cross-country (XC) champion and 4-time national champion in the 24-hour solo category. In 1996, he became one of the first to see the introduction of mountain biking as an Olympic sport and represent the United States. Tinker again represented the United States at the 2000 Summer Olympics.Started Racing: 1986 at 25 years of age.
Sub discipline: Cross Country (XC), Endurance
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Turned Professional: 1989
Retired:
January 2004-December 2005
National Off-Road Bicycle Association (NORBA)
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In 2005, Tinker began training for long-distance road racing events. He won the Heart of the South, which is a 500miles race, and finished second place at the 2005 edition of the Furnace Creek 508, a grueling 508miles course that covers 35000feet of cumulative elevation gain and passes through Death Valley. His podium finishes qualified Tinker for the 2006 Race Across America (RAAM), the annual transcontinental bicycle race from the west coast to the east coast of the United States. He came in third in the Men's Solo Enduro division of the RAAM endurance road race on June 22, 2006, completing the three thousand mile race which started in 2006 from Oceanside, California and finishing in Atlantic City, New Jersey. His finishing time was 10 days, 22 hours and 21 minutes.[12] Started Racing: 2005 at 44 years of age.
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Retired: Still Active.